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Michigan Prize honors helicon plasma pioneer Professor Rod Boswell
03
SEP
Michigan Prize honors helicon plasma pioneer Professor Rod Boswell

Professor Rod Boswell has been honoured for his invention of the helicon plasma source and more than five decades of innovation, winning the 2026...

Dr Sophie Zhao to give the AIP 2027 Marie Curie lectures
03
SEP
Dr Sophie Zhao to give the AIP 2027 Marie Curie lectures

Dr Sophie (Jie) Zhao will tour Australia in 2027 as the Women in Physics Medallist, sharing her research on quantum technologies enabled by correlated...

Professor Susan Scott awarded prestigious Harrie Massey Medal
03
SEP
Professor Susan Scott awarded prestigious Harrie Massey Medal

The Australian Institute of Physics (AIP)’s highest accolade, the Harrie Massey Medal has been awarded to Distinguished Professor Susan...

3D imaging yields drastic improvement in hernia surgery outcomes
04
AUG
3D imaging yields drastic improvement in hernia surgery outcomes

For a surgical procedure to result in patients being universally pain free, with zero recurrence of the ailment seems impossible - but that’s...

All fired up: how the original shock tunnel came back to ANU
23
JUL
All fired up: how the original shock tunnel came back to ANU

When Professor Sean O’Byrne was asked to dismantle the machine he’d built his career on, he had other ideas. Twenty years later,...

Quantum Newton’s cradle set to level up computing
15
JUL
Quantum Newton’s cradle set to level up computing

Sending quantum information through a chain of qubits, like energy through a Newton’s cradle, could be the key to faster operations, and take...

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