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Liquid lenses for better satellite monitoring
24
JUL
Liquid lenses for better satellite monitoring

In an exciting first, HIAF has helped test innovative liquid lenses that enable a satellite to take a selfie. The Heavy Ion Accelerator Facility’s...

ANU physicists are using lasers to give the Sydney Harbour Bridge a makeover
11
JUL
ANU physicists are using lasers to give the Sydney Harbour Bridge a makeover

by Rebeka Selmeczki If you’ve ever walked into a shop selling Australian merchandise, you will have noticed one of the nation’s...

Optical counterparts of diodes could spur new area of technology
10
JUL
Optical counterparts of diodes could spur new area of technology

The inventors of nano-isolators – the optical equivalent of a diode – say the device could start a technology revolution. In the 1950s,...

Mysterious sixth-order transition hints at enigmatic nuclear process
05
JUL
Mysterious sixth-order transition hints at enigmatic nuclear process

Physicists have seen the only known example of a sixth-order electromagnetic decay process in nature, emitted as a gamma ray from an excited...

Built in quality control to make quantum tech more reliable
05
JUN
Built in quality control to make quantum tech more reliable

One of quantum technology’s most powerful tools is interference, in which two or more identical particles interact in surprising ways –...

Megavolts Ep 10: Cygnus and the search for dark matter
19
APR
Megavolts Ep 10: Cygnus and the search for dark matter

Is there dark matter all around us, is there a dark matter wind passing through us as the earth travels through space? Victoria Uttaree Bashu...

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