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Wednesday 21 September 2016 This year the ANU Giving Day will raise funds to help eradicate Konzo. Konzo is a neurological disease that causes irreversible paralysis of the legs,...
21 September 2016
Scientists at The Australian National University (ANU) have improved the performance of tiny lasers by adding impurities, in a discovery which will be central to the development of low-cost...
4 July 2016
Scientists have detected gravitational waves for a second time, caused by the collision of two black holes 14 and eight times the size of the sun. The team, including scientists from...
16 June 2016
ANU physicists who worked on the first detection of gravitational waves are among the team that has won two prestigious physics prizes, the $3 million Special Breakthrough...
5 May 2016
Physicists have discovered radical new properties in a nanomaterial, opening new possibilities for highly efficient thermophotovoltaic cells that could one day harvest heat in the dark...
26 April 2016
Last week Professor Christine Charles hosted the first Australian-Japanese workshop on making micro-satellites with the view to exploring Pocket Rocket activities, as well as CubeSat...
18 April 2016
Zhisong Qu, Mathew Hole and Michael Fitzgerald of the Plasma Theory and Modelling group have solved a puzzle of why their million-degree heating beams sometimes fail, and instead...
7 March 2016
Scientists from the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) including a team from the ANU Research School of Physics and Engineering have announced the world first...
12 February 2016
Distinguished Professor Chennupati Jagadish has been awarded Australia's highest honour for his service to physics and engineering, leading a string of ANU academics recognised in the 2016...
27 January 2016
Distinguished physics Professor Chennupati Jagadish and his wife Vidya have kickstarted a new endowment fund to bring science students and academics from the developing world to study...
10 December 2015
A high-technology company started by physicists from The Research School of Physics and Engineering has won a major international award for its quantum cyber-security technology. QuintessenceLabs...
24 November 2015
Liquid Instruments recently won four awards in the 2015 Tech23 Australian innovation awards. Daniel Shaddock impressed the audience with his engaging presentation taking away the Tech23...
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