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Tiny lasers, like inside-out noise-cancelling headphones

Physicists at the ANU Research School of Physics have made extremely efficient microscopic lasers, smaller than the width of a hair - smaller, even, than the wavelength of the light...

13 September 2021

Purple diamonds - stunning jewellery or revolutionary technology?

With the world record sale of a purple diamond for $29.3M, it seemed the right time to chat to our diamond expert, Professor Neil Manson, about what a diamond actually is, and how one determines...

20 August 2021

Rodney Baxter wins Poincare Prize for Mathematical Physics

Congratulations to our former head of Theoretical Physics, Emeritus Professor Rodney Baxter, who has been awarded the 2021 Henri Poincare Prize at the 2021 International Congress of Mathematical...

13 August 2021

Student research program set to inspire holographic phones

Research students from the Australian National University (ANU) and the Friedrich Schiller University (FSU) in Germany will collaborate to invent technology that could make smartphones...

20 July 2021

Thruster research to help propel spacecraft

Faster space manoeuvres and safer, more sustainable, propellants may soon be possible thanks to a new three-year partnership between The Australian National University and French propulsion...

15 July 2021

Approaching zero: super-chilled mirrors edge towards the borders of gravity and quantum physics

The LIGO gravitational wave observatory in the United States is so sensitive to vibrations it can detect the tiny ripples in space-time called gravitational waves. These waves are caused...

12 July 2021

Let there be light! New tech to revolutionise night vision

Researchers from The Australian National University (ANU) have developed new technology that allows people to see clearly in the dark, revolutionising night-vision. The first-of-its-kind...

7 July 2021

Black holes swallow neutron stars like “Pac-Man”

Scientists have for the first time detected black holes eating neutron stars, “like Pac Man”, in a discovery documenting the collision of the two most extreme and enigmatic...

30 June 2021

Accelerator to help Aussie tech survive in space

Australia’s spacecraft and satellites will better survive damaging radiation and extreme conditions thanks to a $2.5 million grant, for space science to be led by the Australian...

18 June 2021

A brace of medals for the ANU Physics community

The Research School of Physics congratulates four of its community who have been decorated in the Queen’s Birthday Honours. Former Director of the Research School of Physics...

16 June 2021

Queen's Birthday gong for Professor Neil Manson

Emeritus Professor Neil Manson has been made a member of the Order of Australia in the Queen’s Birthday honours, for significant service to tertiary education, particularly physics. Director...

15 June 2021

Gravitational wave search no humdrum hunt

The International community of Gravitational Wave scientists are a few steps closer to detect a new source of gravitational waves that has never been detected. Distinguished Prof....

28 May 2021

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