The quantum microscope revolution is here
New entanglement-based sensor surpasses light-based microscopes.
University of Queensland researchers have built a quantum microscope based on the strange phenomenon Albert Einstein ...
Physics
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Aurora created in a lab
Physicists definitively describe how auroras are created.
A team of physicists has just completed a decades-long quest to experimentally demonstrate the physical mechanism of ...
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Listening to the atom group chat
Scientists overhear the chatter of atoms exchanging quantum information.
Dutch and German researchers have intercepted a “chat” between two atoms, which may have interesting implications for...
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What are continuous gravitational waves?
Scientists are closer than ever to detecting “humming” gravitational waves.
An artist's impression of two black holes about to collide and merge - which would produce gravitational waves. Credi...
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New universal law of human mobility
Mapping how humans move will help in future pandemics.
How people move around cities follows a predictable and universal pattern, scientists say, which will be crucial not ...
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New insight into radioactive particles at Maralinga
Sixty years later, researchers learn more about the fallout from nuclear tests in the Great Victo...
In the 1950s and 60s, hundreds of nuclear tests were carried out at Maralinga in western South Australia, releasing r...
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Science leaders with purpose
A science education is just the start, but what the world needs now is science leaders who are et...
When I started at CSIRO as an intern, in 1984, I had no idea that one day I would end up as Chief Executive of the sa...
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Microscopic device harvests power from heat
Scientists have used quantum phenomena to build the most efficient “optical rectennas”.
US scientists have designed the most efficient “optical rectenna” yet. This tiny device, too small to be seen with th...
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Highest intensity laser ever
Physicists demonstrate record-breaking laser pulse.
After a decade of work, researchers at the Center for Relativistic Laser Science (CoReLS) at the Institute for Basic ...
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Measuring lead nucleus tells of neutron stars
A neutron skin behaviour that affects atoms and stars.
Physicists have just collected the most accurate measurement of the thickness of the neutron ‘skin’ of a lead (Pb) nu...
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A mini Large Hadron Collider?
Particle accelerators aren’t all gargantuan bits of kit: there’s a room-sized one in Melbourne.
On 7 January, physicist Dr Suzie Sheehy was up before the sun had risen. That day, two trucks showed up on the ste...
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Research
Exciting exciton breakthrough
First ever image of an electron’s orbit inside an exciton.
Scientists have just experimentally measured the wave function of an exciton, and they’re excited about it – because ...