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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...
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...
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