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By Professor Vince Craig and Ms Noura Alzaidan, from the Materials Physics Department. Originally published in The Conversation. As the United States approaches 250th birthday...
2 July 2026
In space, someone can hear you scream, in extreme enough circumstances: by using gravitational waves from the collision of two black holes, scientists have heard signals from closer...
25 June 2026
A long time ago, in our galaxy, there was a rare, very violent explosion. We may never know what it was: it could have been an especially large supernova (star explosion) or a collision...
16 June 2026
Professor Lan Fu is waiting for a call from the hospital about someone ill with diabetes. It’s not a sick friend or family, but the first patient in her first pilot clinical...
20 May 2026
Iron-60 discovery in Antarctic ice reveals: Local Interstellar Cloud leaves its mark Our Solar System is currently passing through the Local Interstellar Cloud, a region of highly...
14 May 2026
Scientists have used the collision of two black holes to measure and correct the calibration of the detectors that observe them. The technique was perfected using two exceptionally...
13 May 2026
Canberra-based technology company Liquid Instruments has secured major investment to accelerate the commercialisation of its platform that is reshaping how engineers interact with complex...
5 May 2026
A new technique for controlling optical components with light could usher in the next generation of high efficiency signal processing technology, that could drive futuristic technology...
28 April 2026
Quantum photonics is set to be a pivotal part of future quantum technology, if the right materials can be created, a new review paper has found. Photonics provides one approach to developing...
14 April 2026
Join Dr Sean Hodgman on a deep dive into his group's recent work on entanglement of helium atoms' momentum. The video on this research has attracted thousands of comments, so we sat Sean...
10 April 2026
A new Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) will support a unique collaboration between two of the world’s foremost nuclear science facilities on opposite sides of the globe. The...
9 April 2026
In a new quantum physics experiment, ANU researchers have shown that matter can experience entanglement – an effect Einstein dismissed as ‘spooky action at a distance’. The...
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