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In the latest episode of MegaVolts we talk about fusion and when it fails. It’s a grey area – sometimes colliding nuclei miss, sometimes they bounce and sometimes they...
9 February 2024
Living on Mars you’re a good distance from a mechanic. So, any technology you use there would need to be robust. These are the kind of thoughts Professor Rod Boswell has been...
6 February 2024
The mystery of the possible quantum nature of gravity could be solved with lasers – a major contrast with the conventional approach of using masses, say ANU physicists. Quantum...
1 February 2024
It’s a challenge to see into the ground, but high resolution gravity measurements could be a way to reveal underground structures – caves, tunnels or even water bodies. Physicists...
25 January 2024
When nuclei collide, protons and neutrons zip back and forth between them, even if they stay a significant distance apart and don’t touch. Physicists measured nuclei bouncing...
15 January 2024
In the search for optimum hydrogen production researchers have found decorating their electrodes with tiny metal flowers boosts the process significantly. Dr Asim Riaz said the structures...
22 December 2023
This episode of Megavolts finds the accelerator warming up after maintenance. Dr Ed Simpson takes us through how exactly you turn on a 15 megavolt machine and get ready for new experiments...
27 November 2023
The Research School of Physics has had spectacular success in the 2023 awards season. Our staff and students snared medals from the Australian Institute of Physics (AIP) for best honours...
9 November 2023
A new partnership between The Australian National University (ANU) and Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) in the United States will deliver innovations in nuclear science and help...
31 October 2023
A series of clever design tweaks have boosted the efficiency of solar-powered hydrogen production, using cheap and readily available materials. After COVID, hailstorms and bushfire...
11 October 2023
A simple, cheap and non-invasive blood test could help predict a person's risk of developing Alzheimer's disease and multiple sclerosis (MS) up to 20 years before symptoms show. Physicists...
10 October 2023
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...
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