We bid farewell with sadness to Emeritus Professor Sydney Hamberger, foundation Professor of the Plasma Research Laboratory. Professor Hamberger passed away in Canberra aged 92, and was laid to rest last Friday.  Sydney was appointed to lead a new department...

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 company ThrustMe. Led by the ANU Research School of Physics,...

ANU is poised to provide China with its first Stellarator device, which enables experimental research on magnetically confined plasma that is vital for developing fusion energy. It's part of a transition within the Australian Plasma Fusion Research Facility...

The ANU Research School of Physics and Engineering will work with the University of South China (USC) on fusion energy research, with the prospect of Australia providing China with its first plasma Stellarator device. Energy pundits see nuclear fusion,...

A new Memorandum of Understanding on research collaboration was signed in September 2015 between the Plasma Research Laboratory (home to the APFRF) and the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics. The agreement heralds an exciting opportunity for personnel...

A team from the Plasma Research Laboratory at the Australian National University has developed new optical instruments for studying plasma behaviour. The so-called coherence-imaging systems are advancing understanding of high-temperature plasma behaviour...

It is possible to create a star on earth with a nuclear fusion device, with the H1-Heliac at the ANU Research School of Physics and Engineering doing just this. The research school is also turning out rising-star graduates that are becoming...

The world's largest fusion energy experiment, ITER, has turned to Australian physicists to supply a crucial imaging system for the multi-billion-euro experiment. Engaging with ITER is a great opportunity for Australian high technology industry and researchers,...

PRL physicist John Howard has made the finals of the minerals and energy category of The Australian Innovation Challenge awards with technology to advance the international fusion research effort."Coherence imaging" instruments manipulate light to produce...