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Scientists at The Australian National University (ANU) have designed a new nano material that can reflect or transmit light on demand with temperature control, opening the door to technology...
4 July 2017
As a kid growing up in New Zealand, Jackson Dowie was fascinated by nuclear physics, like his Kiwi predecessor Ernest Rutherford. "I'd heard that ANU was the best place in the southern...
28 June 2017
For her PhD project Wenjie Yang has asked her supervisor for a lot of gold. It's not for bling; she wants to embed it into silicon as part of the quest to make it a better absorber...
22 June 2017
An ANU nuclear physics academic is hoping his recent trip to the University of Yangon in Myanmar is just the start of a meaningful collaboration that will see ANU help to grow Myanmar's...
14 June 2017
Two physicists at RSPE have won ARC Future Fellowships, for researching quantum communication for satellites, and nonlinear nanotechnology. Dr Chunle Xiong from Quantum Sciences will...
8 June 2017
When Director of LIGO David Reitze visited ANU to give a seminar, he found time to chat about the his wild ride since the discovery of gravitational waves. Hear how LIGO was tested...
5 June 2017
An international team of researchers has made a third detection of gravitational waves, ripples in space and time, in a discovery that provides new insights into the mysterious nature...
2 June 2017
ANU researchers have developed a suitable material to allow brain cells to grow and form predictable circuits, which could lead to the development of prosthetics for the brain. The...
19 May 2017
An Australian physicist has been enlisted into an international network of scientists working to build a sustainable future with fusion energy. Associate Professor Matthew Hole of RSPE...
18 May 2017
Scientists have discovered a way to solve a problem that has baffled humans for so long it is mentioned in the Bible: achieving the most efficient packing of objects such as grains...
15 May 2017
ANU is poised to provide China with its first Stellarator device, which enables experimental research on magnetically confined plasma that is vital for developing fusion energy. It's...
9 May 2017
The first satellites built in Australia in the past 15 years have been launched from Cape Canaveral in Florida to the International Space Station, where they will be deployed into space. The...
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