A unique high-tech testing facility for space technology was opened on August 15, 2023 by the Deputy Head of the Australian Space Agency, Dara Williams.
The new facility is the 11th...
30 August
30
Aug
This episode Dr Christian Notthoff is in the control room breaking glass. With silver and gold 'bullets'.
Sounds a bit anarchic, but the result is silicon dioxide membranes with...
14 August
14
Aug
Like many of us, recent graduate Mallika Sinha wanted to become an astronaut when she grew up. Then, after seeing images of the rings and moons of Saturn taken by NASA's Cassini probe,...
21 July
21
Jul
As a young girl in Bangladesh, Victoria Uttaree Bashu was obsessed with Einstein.
Like her inspiration, she is already pushing back the frontiers of physics, three months into her PhD in the Nuclear...
21 June
21
Jun
Two national teaching programs aiming to revolutionise science education in Australian schools have been launched today, to generate the next generation of Aussie Einsteins, quantum...
14 June
14
Jun
3D data processing is pioneering customised medicine for people with serious bone injuries.
A customised bone plate was implanted into a patient after a collaboration between ANU,...
31 May
31
May
A new facility at The Australian National University (ANU) will help scientists detect some of the most extreme events in the universe and put Australia "front and centre" of the exciting...
26 May
26
May
Raghda Abdel Khaleq spends a lot of time contemplating the unknown sector of our universe. And not just for her PhD research in nuclear physics.
“This painting is part of a dark...
24 May
24
May
Nuclear physicists deal with not just the 118 elements of the periodic table, but all the isotopes of those elements, which takes the numbers into the thousands.
In this episode...
12 May
12
May
A surprise observation of negative mass in exciton-polaritons has added yet another dimension of weirdness to these strange light-matter hybrid particles.
Dr Matthias Wurdack, Dr Tinghe...
8 May
8
May
