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 …
Earthquake forecasts, tractor beams, sticky memories and more…Tim on radio
This week on radio, Tim Thwaites is talking about artificial skin; the optical illusions of bowerbirds; tractor beams; earthquakes; and more …
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Making nano-chips: Sydney centre opens today
Bionic eyes, quantum computers and more efficient solar cells are among the many research projects set to benefit from a new facility due to be officially opened in Sydney on Friday. …
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The Diamond Age
Move aside bronze, iron, silicon We’re moving into the Diamond Age according to Professor David Awschalom from the University of California. He and his team have already built experimental diamond …
A million times faster
A radical new kind of computer memory will be a million times faster than existing hard-drives, a leading expert in the field of nanotechnology announced today in Sydney. It will use nanotechnology …
Put the Lord of the Rings supercomputer on your desktop
From today, thousands of Australian researchers have access to the power of the computing cluster that created the Lord of the Rings and King Kong. By using a new service called Green Button, …
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Holey fibres shine the light on safety: 2008 Malcolm McIntosh Prize for Physical Scientist of the Year
Tanya Monro Optical fibres are the backbone of the internet, carrying vast amounts of data across cities, countries and oceans. Without them global communication would be more expensive and much …
Silicon back in the race for quantum computers
The odds that a futuristic quantum computer will be built of silicon have received a boost, thanks to new technology recently invented by researchers in the Centre for Quantum Computer Technology …
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