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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...
5 June 2025
Material physicists at the Research School of Physics are creating materials to protect satellites from the harsh space environment – essentially sunscreen for satellites. The...
23 May 2025
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,...
15 May 2025
Spacecraft could soon carry sophisticated polarisation-sensitive optics, thanks to innovative design that miniaturises optical technology to a tiny fraction of its current size. These...
2 May 2025
Physicists have devised a way to combine an atomic magnetometer with a gyroscope, using a pulsed laser system and a simple mixture of gases. The new technique will not only be a radical...
16 April 2025
Two physicists from the Research School of Physics (RSPhys) have received major recognition from the Australian Academy of Science. Distinguished Professor Yuri Kivshar (Materials...
11 April 2025
A random conversation between physicists from different areas has led to a new ultrasensitive device to search for dark matter. The device is inspired by an instrument designed for mitigating...
1 April 2025
As Dr Dominik Koll was investigating a new method of radio-dating ancient samples, he stumbled across evidence of a major event in the Earth’s history, around ten million years...
18 March 2025
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...
13 March 2025
The world’s foremost technical organisation has given the Heavy Ion Accelerator Facility (HIAF) at the ANU Research School of Physics global recognition for its technical significance. On...
27 February 2025
The challenge with detecting dark matter is that the signal will probably be incredibly small – perhaps only a couple of particles per day. So it would be really easy to be fooled...
14 February 2025
Physicists have developed an ultra-compact quantum imager, based on an extremely sensitive high-resolution technique known as quantum ghost imaging. The new system uses a metasurface...
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