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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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
We now know more about the diet of a prehistoric creature that grew up to two and a half metres long and lived in Australian waters during the time of the dinosaurs, thanks to the power...
24 April 2023
Physicists have created a laser that generates spiralling light, emitted by a surface with thickness a mere fraction of a human hair. Light with a spiral – i.e. rotating polarisation...
19 April 2023
In a string of accurate quantum experiments, physicists have violated Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle – one of the icons of quantum weirdness, with its counter-intuitive...
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