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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...
23 July 2026
Sending quantum information through a chain of qubits, like energy through a Newton’s cradle, could be the key to faster operations, and take quantum computing to the next level. The...
15 July 2026
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...
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