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ANZAC Day image fabricated by Focused Ion Beam

The ANZAC pattern was fabricated by using Focused Ion Bean (FIB) system at the Australian National Fabrication Facility by Dr Evgeny Mironov a recently graduated visiting PhD student...

24 April 2015

A gift of Love to ANU

After a long career of teaching and research, Emeritus Professor John Love believes it is now time to give some more. Professor Love is donating $1 million to the ANU to fund a new scholarship...

14 November 2014

Long-distance reversible laser tractor beam created

Laser physicists have built a tractor beam that can repel and attract objects, using a hollow laser beam that is bright around the edges and dark in its centre. It is the first long-distance...

22 October 2014

Physicists create water tractor beam

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

Launch of the H-1 facility upgrade

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

Tiny laser breakthrough by ANU researchers shines light on faster computers

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

Laser tripod for better levitation

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

Untraceable

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

The devil in the detail

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

Royal Medal for remarkable mathematician

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

Searching for objects in turbulent seas

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

2013 dates for Director's Colloquium

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

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