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For National Science Week 2022 large science collaborations around Australia are making one-minute-long videos showing off their facilities. Here’s ours, for the 15 megavolt “souped-up”...
16 August 2022
Today’s visit to the HIAF Control room finds Associate Professor Stephen Tims researching sedimentation in the catchment of a lake in China. It seems to have nothing to do with...
5 August 2022
A key element for future quantum technology is a step closer with the unveiling of a tiny quantum light source, less than one hundredth the diameter of a hair thick. The device’s...
29 July 2022
Counting large black holes could help us find elusive dark matter particles, a new study led by the Centre for Gravitational Astrophysics has found. Large black holes are formed when...
20 July 2022
A thin layer of plutonium that encircled the globe during the first nuclear weapons tests in the fifties could mark the dawning of a new geological age, experiments in the Heavy Ion Accelerator...
18 July 2022
A theoretical physicist from The Research School of Physcis and Centre for Gravitational Astrophysics whose pioneering work has fundamentally altered our understanding of the deepest...
12 July 2022
It turns out atomic nuclei – the tiny soccer balls at the heart of the atoms that make us up – sometimes turn into footballs. With a small injection of energy they can become...
27 June 2022
Physicists at the Research School of Physics have developed tiny translucent slides capable of producing two very different images depending on the direction in which light travels...
22 June 2022
There is a new oasis for parents in the Research School of Physics – a room stocked with supplies and toys, where they can breastfeed quietly, or play noisily with their little...
20 June 2022
In Episode 2 of Megavolts series of videos from the Accelerator Control Room we speak with PhD student Lauren Bezzina about her research into fusion. In Lauren’s experiments,...
31 May 2022
Hear from our nuclear physics researchers about the surprising new measurement of how quickly stars create carbon. Measurements in the Heavy Ion Accelerator Facility are set to trigger...
30 May 2022
For the first time since its discovery 130 years ago, one of the most mysterious fossil vertebrates has finally been classified, increasing our possible understanding of the first animals...
27 May 2022Find us on..
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