Stories today at the physics congress in Melbourne A cubic kilometre of South Pole ice looking for dark matter From the chaos of stirring coffee to stirring rocks and cleaning up polluted ground water Silk microchips for instant blood tests Diamond’s light touch Enlightenment on a chip A single electron reader for silicon quantum computing
Australian technology that saves the ozone layer and reduces greenhouse gases 3 December 2008 Three medals will be presented to leading scientists in Adelaide tonight. Three CSIRO scientists will be awarded the Walsh Medal in Adelaide tonight for their work to destroy CFCs. Their approach – using a plasma reactor working at 20,000 degrees –…
Astronomy at the Australian Institute of Physics 18th National Congress in Adelaide The discoverer of pulsars: Jocelyn Bell Burnell The UK’s Jocelyn Bell Burnell discovered pulsars by chance when she was a student. Detecting a bit of “scruff” on her chart recorder papers that tracked across the sky with the stars, Bell Burnell found that…
Stories from the Australian Institute of Physics 18th National Congress in Adelaide The nation’s physicists are meeting in Adelaide this week. Some of the topics on the agenda are: Solar power Michael Geyer, Abengoa Solar will talk about introducing concentrated solar power on the international energy market. This Spanish company is building the world’s largest…
Stories from the Australian Institute of Physics 18th National Congress in Adelaide The nation’s physicists are meeting in Adelaide this week. Some of the topics on the agenda are: Solar power Michael Geyer, Abengoa Solar will talk about introducing concentrated solar power on the international energy market. This Spanish company is building the world’s largest…
View images here Read media release here Read about The University of Melbourne and University of Sydney public/student events here In a circular tunnel beneath the border of France and Switzerland, scientists will this Wednesday just after 6pm begin one of the most ambitious scientific projects ever undertaken. Half a world away, researchers in Melbourne…