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Healthy and unhealthy brain states – what role does electrical conductivity...

A research team in New Zealand hopes to understand the physical changes that underpin the abrupt switches in brain activity between being healthy and awake, sleeping, or having a seizure. Marcus...

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Is that a diamond in your eye?

Kumar Ganesan and colleagues from University of Melbourne think they may have found the perfect material from which to build bionic eyes—diamond. They are using the ultra-strong, biocompatible material...

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First results from the ATLAS experiment

By Vivien Lee It took less than 19 days of smashing lead ions together at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland for physicists confirm a new state of matter, the Australian Institute of Physics...

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Sun sneaks up on winter workers

By Vivien Lee The danger of sunburn for construction workers is just as high in autumn and winter as in spring and summer, a researcher told the Australian Institute of Physics Congress in Melbourne....

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Watching electrons in action

By James Michell Crow An international team of researchers based in Colorado has captured the movements of single electrons in a chemical bond, using ultra-short x-ray pulses. The technique, which...

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Laser beams on steroids

By James Mitchell Crow UK physicists have developed new ways of generating industrial lasers powerful enough to slice through steel. The trick is to pass the beam along active optical fibres, David...

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Light rays treat tumours

By James Mitchell Crow Recurring prostate cancers can be subdued with a blast of laser light, say Swedish researchers who presented their latest research at the Australian Institute of Physics...

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Invisible fibres disappearing soon

Alessandro Tuniz and colleagues at the University of Sydney have designed a fibre that would be invisible over a range of colours. And because of recent developments in ways to draw hybrid materials...

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The physics of money – testing the stability of the system

Every working day some $150 billion flows through Australia’s Interbank system. Postgraduate student Andrey Sokolov from the University of Melbourne, together with colleagues from Melbourne and...

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Australian Institute of Physics Congress 2010 – a summary of stories

Here are the stories that emerged from The 19th Australian Institute of Physics Congress incorporating the 35th Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology that took place from 5-9 December 2010...

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Targeting cancer, unlimited power and new optical fibre applications – the...

Unlimited clean power; high speed communications; sophisticated, targeted treatment for cancer; our understanding of the Universe. These and more at the national physics congress starting in Sydney on...

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Unlimited clean power; sophisticated, target treatment for cancer and more –...

Unlimited clean power Sophisticated, targeted treatment for cancer; Measuring schools – is the new PISA test a wrong turn Overcoming the energy challenge with science. These and more at the national...

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Australia’s smallest miners; Unlimited energy from fusion and more

At the national physics congress this week: Why Australia should take part in the world’s largest energy project A handheld probe for detecting cancer Do the Prime Minister’s favoured education markers...

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How close is a quantum computer?

Quantum computers promise ultra-powerful, high speed number crunching. They’ll help us to search vast databases and model biological molecules at an atomic level. They will crack the encryptions we...

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Accurate time with light and designing the NBN

A new, cheaper way to deliver accurate time across Australia: instead of using hydrogen maser clocks costing hundreds of thousands of dollars we can bounce signals through the national’s optical fibre...

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How close are we to quantum computers?

Quantum computers promise ultra-powerful, high speed number crunching. They’ll help us to search vast databases and model biological molecules at an atomic level. They will crack the encryptions we...

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Goodbye twinkle, hello stars – physics in Sydney

Australian researchers are taking the twinkle out of stars for the world’s biggest light telescope, the Giant Magellan Telescope in Chile. And a new optical fibre – which can only be made in Australia...

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Nobel laureate presents school science project

Posted on behalf of the University of New South Wales It’s not every day that school students get to present their science project to a major scientific conference, and rarer still to receive a prize...

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Seeing stealth bombers and freeing mobile networks

A West Australian invention that’s keeping atomic clocks accurate, searching for gravity waves, and improving radar systems has won its creators a national physics prize. And, as mobile networks become...

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Stories from the 2012 AIP Congress

New ideas on our energy future; hand-held cancer probes; ultra-powerful, high speed quantum computers;  and freeing up space on the mobile network. These stories and more were presented at the national...

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