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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...
26 September 2023
A unique high-tech testing facility for space technology was opened on August 15, 2023 by the Deputy Head of the Australian Space Agency, Dara Williams. The new facility is the 11th...
30 August 2023
This episode Dr Christian Notthoff is in the control room breaking glass. With silver and gold 'bullets'. Sounds a bit anarchic, but the result is silicon dioxide membranes with...
14 August 2023
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,...
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