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When you are trying to draw the finest details of a design, every tiny flaw in your "pencil" counts. But a team of physicists have found a way to take these flaws in your system...
29 October 2026
PhD student Tom Perissinotto was the 2026 Crompton Award winner, and used the grant to travel to Europe to visit seven different destinations to meet collaborators, see labs in action,...
22 October 2026
A new technique that allows optical components to be reprogrammed by laser light could open the way for a new generation of telecommunications and signal processing technology. Until...
19 October 2026
Two researchers from the Research School of Physics have been elected Fellows of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE), recognising their significant...
13 October 2026
The global collaboration hunting gravitational waves, LIGO, will take its search for colliding black holes and neutron stars to the next level, thanks to precision optical engineering...
1 October 2026
Components from Australia’s lunar rover, ‘Roo-ver’, visited the space testing facility at the ANU Heavy Ion Accelerator Facility (HIAF) to be tested against extreme...
28 September 2026
ANU student James Monro has won Thomas H Laby medal for the best Honours or Masters thesis from an Australian University, awarded by the Australian Institute of Physics (AIP). Mr Monro’s...
15 September 2026
Professor Rod Boswell has been honoured for his invention of the helicon plasma source and more than five decades of innovation, winning the 2026 University of Michigan Prize for Excellence...
3 September 2026
Dr Sophie (Jie) Zhao will tour Australia in 2027 as the Women in Physics Medallist, sharing her research on quantum technologies enabled by correlated light. The tour includes the Marie...
3 September 2026
The Australian Institute of Physics (AIP)’s highest accolade, the Harrie Massey Medal has been awarded to Distinguished Professor Susan Scott for her ‘groundbreaking discoveries...
3 September 2026
For a surgical procedure to result in patients being universally pain free, with zero recurrence of the ailment seems impossible - but that’s what’s been achieved by a new hernia...
4 August 2026
When Professor Sean O’Byrne was asked to dismantle the machine he’d built his career on, he had other ideas. Twenty years later, the T2 free piston shock tunnel is back...
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