A cubic kilometre ice telescope, silk for blood tests, stirring coffee and rocks…

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
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Bandwidth Leads to Democracy: 2004 Malcolm McIntosh Prize for Physical Scientist of the Year

Ben EggletonBen Eggleton

Just as the transistor and microelectronics transformed communications and human society in the 20th century, “light” transistors and microphotonics will revolutionise the way we communicate in the 21st century.

Many of the changes that lie ahead in communications technology are due in part to the work of a young Sydney optical physicist Ben Eggleton, a Federation Fellow and leader of CUDOS, the Centre for Ultrahigh bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems. Read More about Bandwidth Leads to Democracy: 2004 Malcolm McIntosh Prize for Physical Scientist of the Year