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A new approach to manufacturing multicolour lenses could inspire a new generation of tiny, cheap, and powerful optics for portable devices such as phones and drones. The design uses...
2 September 2025
Congratulations to Dr Ed Simpson, who has been awarded a Future Fellowship to study nuclear fusion reactions. Dr Simpson, who is from the Department of Nuclear Physics and Accelerator...
6 August 2025
A new material platform has enabled scientists to create photon pairs whose entanglement can be tuned, from a layer thinner than a human hair. The photon pairs are created by a metasurface...
17 July 2025
A remark by a first-year student about a space researcher’s lack of real-world impact has led to a project to develop a groundbreaking device that combats PFAS, a forever chemical, The...
20 June 2025
Technology developed at the Research School of Physics has attracted attention from the Taiwanese Space Agency. After a group from Taiwan toured the Space Plasma and Plasma Processing...
5 June 2025
Material physicists at the Research School of Physics are creating materials to protect satellites from the harsh space environment – essentially sunscreen for satellites. The...
23 May 2025
Physicists have found a highly efficient way to transfer angular momentum from a light beam to a tiny cylindrical object, causing it to spin in a way that could be used as a motor,...
15 May 2025
Spacecraft could soon carry sophisticated polarisation-sensitive optics, thanks to innovative design that miniaturises optical technology to a tiny fraction of its current size. These...
2 May 2025
Physicists have devised a way to combine an atomic magnetometer with a gyroscope, using a pulsed laser system and a simple mixture of gases. The new technique will not only be a radical...
16 April 2025
Two physicists from the Research School of Physics (RSPhys) have received major recognition from the Australian Academy of Science. Distinguished Professor Yuri Kivshar (Materials...
11 April 2025
A random conversation between physicists from different areas has led to a new ultrasensitive device to search for dark matter. The device is inspired by an instrument designed for mitigating...
1 April 2025
As Dr Dominik Koll was investigating a new method of radio-dating ancient samples, he stumbled across evidence of a major event in the Earth’s history, around ten million years...
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