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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...
27 March 2023
Shiyu Wei is working on tiny pillars made from indium phosphide. With diameters less than one hundredth the diameter of human hair, these nanowires, as they are called, have remarkable...
3 March 2023
A rare form of vanadium oxide could be the basis for a new generation of computers that mimic the human brain, researchers from the Electronic Materials Engineering (EME) department...
27 February 2023
A new generation of TVs could be built around pixels made of metasurfaces that can switch their transparency on and off thousands of times a second. As well as offering a fast refresh...
22 February 2023
At 2 am on the 2nd of January, technology developed at the Research School of Physics lifted off aboard a Spacex rocket and was placed in orbit. The Bogong naphthalene-based thruster...
31 January 2023
Robots and autonomous cars will have eyes that see much more than the human eye is capable of, a review of the growing field of meta-optics has found. Meta-optics is a new form of optical...
23 January 2023
Fiona McTavish found that no one was taking her scientific discovery seriously, so she decided to fix that by dressing as a man. Many frustrated female scientists must have considered...
18 January 2023
It's the chance of lifetime for Joshua White to study Eric the plesiosaur during his PhD in the Materials Physics Department. It's not just that Eric is nearly 100 million years old,...
3 January 2023
A new miniscule nitrogen dioxide sensor could help protect the environment from vehicle pollutants that cause lung disease and acid rain. The sensor is an array of nanowires, in a square...
23 December 2022
Physicists have developed a new tiny laser that could be used by the thousand to make future dynamic 3D holograms. Unlike a 2D screen made up of coloured dots, each pixel in a hologram...
20 December 2022Find us on..
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