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Keeping knowledge alive in wartime

Keeping knowledge alive in wartime

After fleeing Ukraine, Dr Andrey Iljin has found a haven for idea generation at the ANU Research School of Physics. By Hannah Dixon, originally published in ANU Reporter For Dr Andrey...

15 October 2024
How to tell if your donut is like a pretzel

How to tell if your donut is like a pretzel

A new way of comparing shapes will enable scientists to analyse data in more flexible and powerful ways. The approach has come from a collaboration between physicist Dr Vanessa Robins...

10 October 2024
Using gravitational wave technology to improve autonomous vehicles

Using gravitational wave technology to improve autonomous vehicles

Forge Photonics, a start up company using gravitational wave detection technology has launched, setting its sights on the $A120 billion global market for autonomous vehicle navigation...

2 October 2024
Imagine a laser toothbrush: scientists create array of nanowire lasers

Imagine a laser toothbrush: scientists create array of nanowire lasers

Scientists have created lasers from perfect crystals one hundredth of the diameter of a human hair. Like the fibres of a toothbrush, the team created an array of vertical crystals,...

30 September 2024
Making new metamaterials with quantum dot Lego

Making new metamaterials with quantum dot Lego

Scientists have created materials with surprising optical properties, from arrays of lego-like cubes, made of caesium lead tri-bromide. Caesium lead tri-bromide is in a class of material...

26 September 2024
Forget everything you know about time – part of it could be all in your mind

Forget everything you know about time – part of it could be all in your mind

Society says time is money; but ANU physicist Peter Riggs says aspects of time might not even be real at all. Article by: Elaine Obran, ANU Reporter   Time is largely a mystery. It...

25 September 2024
New quantum algorithm raises the bar on solution efficiency

New quantum algorithm raises the bar on solution efficiency

Researchers have come up with a radical new algorithm to significantly boost the performance of quantum computers in certain problems, and also show that classical solutions can be just...

16 August 2024
Polariton laser displays surprising purity

Polariton laser displays surprising purity

A laser based on exciton-polaritons, hybrid particles of light and matter, may boost precision laser technology to another level. A team from the Quantum Science and Technology (QST)...

8 August 2024
Liquid lenses for better satellite monitoring

Liquid lenses for better satellite monitoring

In an exciting first, HIAF has helped test innovative liquid lenses that enable a satellite to take a selfie. The Heavy Ion Accelerator Facility’s Space Irradiation Beamline...

24 July 2024
ANU physicists are using lasers to give the Sydney Harbour Bridge a makeover

ANU physicists are using lasers to give the Sydney Harbour Bridge a makeover

by Rebeka Selmeczki If you’ve ever walked into a shop selling Australian merchandise, you will have noticed one of the nation’s most iconic symbols, the Sydney Harbour...

11 July 2024
Optical counterparts of diodes could spur new area of technology

Optical counterparts of diodes could spur new area of technology

The inventors of nano-isolators – the optical equivalent of a diode – say the device could start a technology revolution. In the 1950s, a technological revolution in electronics...

10 July 2024
Mysterious sixth-order transition hints at enigmatic nuclear process

Mysterious sixth-order transition hints at enigmatic nuclear process

Physicists have seen the only known example of a sixth-order electromagnetic decay process in nature, emitted as a gamma ray from an excited state in iron-53 nuclei.   The team...

5 July 2024

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