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Ion modeller has an eye on the prize

Kasimir Gregory has been named as a Finalist in the 7News Young Achiever Awards NSW & ACT – Western Sydney University Academic Achievement Award. Kasimir is a post-doctoral...

11 May 2022

Megavolts Episode 1 - What goes on inside the Accelerator

This is the first of the Megavolts series of videos, from the Accelerator Control Room. In this episode Dr Phil Dooley speaks with Dr Annette Berriman about the experiments going on at that...

10 May 2022

Tech spin-out to power next-gen autonomous navigation

An ANU spin-out company whose technology will help future moon landings and could one day lead to flying cars has been bought out by one of Australia's leading navigation firms in a deal...

10 May 2022

ANU random numbers go global

ANU launches world's most popular online random number generator powering research simulations and gaming, and inspiring artists' works and children's names on  Amazon Web Services'...

29 April 2022

Invisible helium atoms provide exquisitely sensitive test of fundamental theory

Physicists at the Australian National University have developed the most sensitive method ever for measuring the potential energy of an atom (within a hundredth of a decillionth of a joule...

7 April 2022

How to make lasers simple or chaotic

New forms of highly efficient laser could be in the pipeline as a result of research that brings new detailed understanding of fundamental laser processes. Professor Nail Akhmediev...

29 March 2022

Academy of Science medals for Department of Material Physics

Two members of the Materials Physics Department have won prestigious medals in the 2022 Australian Academy of Science Honorific Awards. Director of the Research School of Physics,...

9 March 2022

Prestigious optics prize for Professor Yuri Kivshar

Professor Yuri Kivshar has been awarded a prestigious medal by Optica (formerly OSA), one of the top international optics and photonics bodies. The honour, the Max Born Award, recognizes...

4 March 2022

Irregular dynamics surprise scientists in exquisite nuclear measurements

New measurements of the incredibly fast movement of protons and neutrons whizzing back and forth in nuclear reactions have revealed surprisingly irregular behaviour.  The findings,...

15 February 2022

Supernovae, quantum puzzles, cancer therapy and space environment: Research at the ANU Heavy Ion Accelerator

This recent School Seminar provides a perfect summary of the research that’s currently happening at the Heavy Ion Accelerator Facility (HIAF) – that big white tower by Lake...

3 February 2022

New space-testing accelerator beamline a 'beacon of hope'

As work on a new beamline for the Heavy Ion Accelerator Facility (HIAF) blasts off, the project’s lead scientist Dr Ian Carter says its space testing capabilities will be a vital...

13 January 2022

Energy loss could be the surprise key to high efficiency

Scientists have observed complex electronic behaviour, known as topology, in a lossy system within a semiconductor. Despite the losses, such topological systems could be used to create...

12 January 2022

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