A remark by a first-year student about a space researcher’s lack of real-world impact has led to a project to develop a groundbreaking device that combats PFAS, a forever chemical, The device takes just six minutes to degrade PFAS in water, which is carcinogenic. The project began unexpectedly...

Anomalous results in particle physics experiments could be a hint to the existence of another five Higgs bosons, calculations have shown. In the sixties Peter Higgs predicted the existence of a scalar particle of the Higgs field, and estimated it would be very heavy: it took decades for a particle collider...

Technology developed at the Research School of Physics has attracted attention from the Taiwanese Space Agency. After a group from Taiwan toured the Space Plasma and Plasma Processing (SP3) lab as part of a recent Fluid Mechanics Conference in Canberra, the Director-General of the Taiwanese Space Agency,...

Physicists have found a highly efficient way to transfer angular momentum from a light beam to a tiny cylindrical object, causing it to spin in a way that could be used as a motor, such as pump in a microfluidic circuit. By using resonant enhancement, the new device has drastically improved on previous...