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Teleportation fidelity the big winner in the quantum lottery

Running your quantum system as a lottery turns out to be a way to improve the transmission of data via quantum teleportation. Researchers at the Research School of Physics used a probabilistic...

26 September 2023

New Space testing facility gets Australian space industry skyrocketing

A unique high-tech testing facility for space technology was opened on August 15, 2023 by the Deputy Head of the Australian Space Agency, Dara Williams. The new facility is the 11th...

30 August 2023

Megavolts Ep 6: Drilling at 10% of the speed of light

This episode Dr Christian Notthoff is in the control room breaking glass. With silver and gold 'bullets'. Sounds a bit anarchic, but the result is silicon dioxide membranes with...

14 August 2023

It’s written in the stars: How maths can unveil the wonders of the universe

Like many of us, recent graduate Mallika Sinha wanted to become an astronaut when she grew up. Then, after seeing images of the rings and moons of Saturn taken by NASA's Cassini probe,...

21 July 2023

Big Dreams of Very Tiny Things

As a young girl in Bangladesh, Victoria Uttaree Bashu was obsessed with Einstein. Like her inspiration, she is already pushing back the frontiers of physics, three months into her PhD in the Nuclear...

21 June 2023

ANU and UWA launch a revolution in Australian science education

Two national teaching programs aiming to revolutionise science education in Australian schools have been launched today, to generate the next generation of Aussie Einsteins, quantum...

14 June 2023

3D data enables cheap quick life changing surgery for bone trauma

3D data processing is pioneering customised medicine for people with serious bone injuries. A customised bone plate was implanted into a patient after a collaboration between ANU,...

31 May 2023

ANU to boost the global hunt for gravitational waves

A new facility at The Australian National University (ANU) will help scientists detect some of the most extreme events in the universe and put Australia "front and centre" of the exciting...

26 May 2023

Painting the universe red

Raghda Abdel Khaleq spends a lot of time contemplating the unknown sector of our universe. And not just for her PhD research in nuclear physics. “This painting is part of a dark...

24 May 2023

Megavolts Episode 5: Star explosions, nuclear waste and a huge periodic table

Nuclear physicists deal with not just the 118 elements of the periodic table, but all the isotopes of those elements, which takes the numbers into the thousands. In this episode...

12 May 2023

Hybrid particles surprise with negative mass

A surprise observation of negative mass in exciton-polaritons has added yet another dimension of weirdness to these strange light-matter hybrid particles. Dr Matthias Wurdack, Dr Tinghe...

8 May 2023

Beautiful nuclides attract positive interactions

An innovative interactive chart of nuclear data is attracting thousands of users from around the globe to the Research School of Physics’ website. The chart, which displays information...

4 May 2023

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