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Creating a better work environment

Women physicists from across the campus came together last week to change the culture and create a better work environment for the women-identifying members of the school.  Sixty-one...

24 November 2022

RSPhys innovation boosting green and manufacturing revolutions

A new training centre hosted by The Australian National University (ANU) is upskilling the next-generation of researchers in cutting-edge 3D imaging and analysis technology to help...

21 November 2022

Safely storing CO2 in rocks to fight Climate Change

More and more governments are taking on the challenge of reducing carbon emissions into the atmosphere. But keeping global warming in check is likely to require carbon being removed...

15 November 2022

Trapping polaritons in a quantum box for perfect conduction

Physicists have trapped exotic hybrid particles in a quantum box a single atom thick, potentially promoting perfect conductivity. The team from the Quantum Science and Technology Department...

9 November 2022

Gurus of nuclear data gather at ANU

Prominent nuclear scientists from across the globe converged on ANU last week for the biennial meeting of the International Network of Nuclear Structure and Decay Data Evaluators. This...

3 November 2022

Gravitational wave guru first Aussie to win top global science prize

One of the world’s leading physicists who is helping unlock the Universe’s most complex mysteries is the first Australian to win the prestigious Blaise Pascal Medal in recognition...

28 October 2022

Megavolts Episode 4 - The Search for Dark Matter

Episode 4 of Megavolts finds us in the HIAF experimental hall looking for dark matter with Dr Lindsey Bignell.   Actually, it’s a practice run, using neutrons instead: dark...

19 October 2022

How a single cylinder unleashes extreme physics

Physicists have used a single extremely small component on a quest to make extremely short, extremely bright pulses of extremely short-wavelength laser light. Anastasiia Zalogina from...

4 October 2022

Noise cancelling glasses for quantum sensors

A simple piece of carefully chosen glass could be the key to cancelling out noise in extremely precise quantum sensors. Dr Jiayi Qin, from ANU Quantum Optics Group, said this simple...

7 September 2022

Pressure makes nanodiamonds, or nanopyramids, or nanowires

Holograms made from arrays of tiny wires are a step closer after a new study of nanostructure fabrication revealed the tricks to making nanowires reliably. Physicists at the Australian...

30 August 2022

Neurons, Lions and Electoral Boundaries - New Topological Research

Congratulations to Associate Professor Vanessa Robins, co-editor of a new book, Research In Computational Topology 2, part of the Association for Women in Mathematics series. The book...

22 August 2022

Lights on for Australia's first dark matter lab

Australia is set to play a leading role in the global hunt for mysterious dark matter, with the launch of a new lab in regional Victoria today. The Stawell Underground Physics Laboratory...

19 August 2022

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