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Football physics and hammies; dark matter in a gold mine and more
Football physics tackles hamstring injuries Finding airports 50 light years away A sun on earth- fact or fiction Laser tracking of carbon-coughing cattle A Victorian goldfields search for galactic...
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Quantum lasers and better ways to engage students win gold medals for physicists
Physicists recognised this week at the national physics congress in Canberra have won recognition for: Using lasers to safeguard future communications Replacing Schrödinger’s famous ‘cat in a box’ with...
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Stawell to join the search for the missing 85 per cent of our galaxy
Victorian government supports plans to build a dark matter laboratory deep in Stawell Gold Mine. The Victorian government has committed $1.75 million to help Australian scientists hunt for dark matter...
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Challenging the orthodoxy in dark matter, dark energy, fusion and more
Good science happens when clever people ask insightful questions. Some papers at the national physics congress in Canberra last week took on their colleagues—asking penetrating questions of mainstream...
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Quantum cats, could science have shortened WW1, and Lawrence Krauss
Picking endangered parrots out from the dawn chorus Could maths and science have shortened WW1? Lawrence Krauss Nobel-winning photon-juggler replaces Schrödinger’s cat These topics and more on the...
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Shape-shifting particles and underground super labs: 2015 Nobel Prize winner...
Public Lecture 7pm Monday 5 December Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre, Great Halls 1 & 2 Register for the event here: www.trybooking.com/OBQF We live in a world of neutrinos. Thousands of...
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A week of physics stories – starting Monday
The biennial Physics Congress in Brisbane 4 to 8 December Researchers from every State plus international and Asian leaders All stories embargoed until released during the Congress. The biggest...
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Australian scientists stalking, sensing and trapping elusive dark matter Gravitational waves. Have more been found, what is Australia’s role, and why should we care? Our neutrino world – explained by...
View ArticleShape shifting particles; underground labs; QLD’s forgotten Nobel Prize...
Sunday 4 December 2016 Highlights from Day 1 of the Physics Congress Australian and international researchers available for interview throughout the week For more highlights, and daily updates visit...
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QLD’s forgotten Nobel Prize winner
Rediscovering the physicist born a century ago in Far North Queensland who went on to win a Nobel Prize for his role in the invention of the laser. Australia’s forgotten Nobel Prize winner Aleksandr...
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Satellites the size of bread; why making anti-matter matters; telescopes on a...
Monday 5 December 2016 Hear about these stories and more at the Physics Congress in Brisbane this week. More at www.scienceinpublic.com.au/physicscongress Researchers available for interview, contact...
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Australian scientists stalking, sensing and trapping elusive dark matter
Monday 5 December 2016 Scientists available for interview from the Physics Congress in Brisbane Media contacts Toni Stevens 0401 763 130 toni@scienceinpublic.com.au Niall Byrne 0417 131 977...
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Arc welders in the operating room; the physics of kangaroo’s knees; no more...
Tuesday 6 December 2016 Hear about these stories and more at the Physics Congress in Brisbane this week. More at www.scienceinpublic.com.au/physicscongress Researchers available for interview, contact...
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Australia helping to crack fusion power, bringing the energy of the sun down...
Tuesday 6 December 2016 It’s the world’s biggest experiment—a multi-billion machine, with first results in 2025. Speakers from around the world, including senior advisor to the ITER project Professor...
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Australia set to ride the quantum computing wave
Tuesday 6 December 2016 Scientists available for interview from the Physics Congress in Brisbane We have the technology! The first simple quantum computers are being built all over the world as...
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Nanodiamonds to highlight cancer; plasma in the workplace; super-light...
Wednesday 7 December 2016 Hear about these stories and more at the Physics Congress in Brisbane this week. More at www.scienceinpublic.com.au/physicscongress Researchers available for interview,...
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The biggest discovery of 2016 was gravitational waves, but what’s next?
Wednesday 7 December 2016 Have more been found, what is Australia’s role, and why should we care? Back in February 2016 it was Professor David Reitze who announced to the world that gravitational waves...
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Looking into fly eyes for the perfect solar cell; embracing chaos to improve...
Thursday 8 December 2016 On the final day of the Physics Congress in Brisbane we’re hearing about inventions that could change the way we generate and store power. Researchers available for interview,...
View ArticleThe quantum manifesto: why quantum is worth one billion Euro to Europe; and...
Thursday 8 December 2016 Professor Alain Aspect firmly believes we’ve entered the second quantum revolution—an age which will see radical technological developments across industries, from...
View ArticleWelcome to the 2016 Australian/Asia-Pacific Physics Conference
One of the highlights on the Australian Institute of Physics’ (AIP’s) calendar is its biennial Congress, where physicists from all over Australia and overseas come together for a week-long program of...
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