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A plasma thruster, developed at ANU for use on miniature satellites, is being used to look for evidence of life on distant planets – but not in the way you might expect. The...
5 May 2020
A photon can trap another photon within a material, researchers have discovered. ANU honours student Janet Zhong made the surprise discovery that a photon can be localised within a second...
3 April 2020
An international team of researchers has developed a technology that manipulates quantum states of light at noise levels that are quieter than the sound of silence. The technology...
20 February 2020
ANU Centre for Gravitational Astrophysics (CGA) kicked off Jan 1st, 2020. The Centre is established jointly under RSPhys and RSAA and aims to advance the science and technology of gravitational...
20 January 2020
The detection of two neutron stars colliding in space about five billion trillion kilometres away has left an international team of scientists scratching their heads. ANU Professor...
8 January 2020
Concrete contributes about eight percent of the world’s carbon footprint – around 3 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide – but research into a new type of concrete that...
7 January 2020
Physics honours graduate Matt Goh is Oxford-bound after winning a Rhodes Scholarship. Matt’s studies of ultracold atoms that could contribute to a new kind of quantum computing...
13 December 2019
Scientists at The Australian National University (ANU) have found a way to better detect all collisions of stellar-mass black holes in the Universe. Stellar-mass black holes are formed...
31 October 2019
Monitoring systems for safer driving, moving holograms on your phone and super-fast, light-based WiFi are a step closer thanks to $34.9 million in Australian Government funding for the Australian...
11 October 2019
A passion for helping fellow students has earned RSPE's Lauren Bezzina a college-wide award, the Janet Elspeth Crawford award for postgraduate leadership. Lauren, a PhD student in Nuclear...
9 October 2019
By Janet Zhong and Tim Hume From the 30th of June to the 6th of July, we attended the 2019 Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting in physics. It was a meeting that invited 39 Nobel laureates...
7 August 2019
An international team of scientists, including from The Australian National University (ANU), have detected two stars colliding in space about 500 million years ago. The discovery...
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