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Physicists at The Australian National University have created a tractor beam on water, providing a radical new technique that could confine oil spills, manipulate floating objects or explain...
11 August 2014
The Australian Plasma Fusion Research Facility (APFRF) held a successful launch of the H-1 facility upgrade yesterday in coordination with the launch of the strategic plan for fusion...
11 July 2014
Faster, smaller electronics are one step closer with researchers from The Australian National University successfully making the first room temperature lasers from gallium arsenide...
18 November 2013
Physicists from The Australian National University have shown that three lasers are better than one when it comes to levitating small but visible objects on light, designing an extremely...
6 November 2013
ANU researchers have created a crack-proof encryption system that’s got the nod from NASA. TEGAN DOLSTRA reports. Your bank account details and medical records might be safe...
22 August 2013
Long, spiny legs and alien-like armour sound like the stuff of science fiction, but our terrestrial neighbours can look out of this world if you look up close. ANU School of Art PhD student,...
22 August 2013
Emeritus Professor Rodney Baxter has been awarded the Royal Society’s Royal Medal for his breakthrough work in mathematics. Professor Baxter, who retired in 2003 after almost...
24 July 2013
Imagine an object was dropped in the stormy sea. It may be a life raft, a person overboard or a black box from an aircraft. One needs to find it, or at least predict where to search...
24 June 2013
Leonard Huxley TheatreFollowing Thursdays at 12:00 Refreshments from 11:30am in the RSPE tearoom 7 March Professor Keith Nugent, University of Melbourne - The Laser Revolution in X-ray...
4 December 2012
The main technical difficulty in building a quantum computer could soon be the thing that makes it possible to build one, according to new research from The Australian National...
21 May 2012
Scientists have used a Lego pirate floating in a fish tank to demonstrate for the first time that so-called ‘super rogue waves’ can come from nowhere in apparently calm...
5 April 2012
Leonard Huxley TheatreFollowing Thursdays at 12.30 Refreshments @ noon in the tea room 1 March - Prof Geoffrey Taylor, University of Melbourne 5 April - Prof Will Steffen, Climate...
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