Physics
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Good (spider) vibrations
Scientists create music from arachnid webs.
The fascinating properties of spider webs could now be explored in an entirely new dimension: through music. The e...
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Could muons rewrite the laws of physics?
New experiment hints that subatomic particles are behaving weirdly, challenging the Standard Model.
Muons don’t seem to be obeying the standard laws of physics, which suggests we don’t yet fully understand the standar...
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Robert Watson-Watt rides the waves
The British physicist who became known as the ‘inventor of radar’.
In April 1935, British physicist Robert Watson-Watt was granted a patent for his design of a radio system for detecti...
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Scientists make antimatter laser
Anti-matter particles can be cooled to near absolute zero.
Researchers from the CERN-based Antihydrogen Laser Physics Apparatus (ALPHA) collaboration have announced that a war ...
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Magnetic fields mapped around black hole
World-spanning telescope gives new view of supermassive black hole.
The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) has just snapped a new image of the massive object lurking at the centre of the Mes...
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Meet the new chief
Australia’s chief scientist has outlined the key issues she’ll address.
Last Wednesday, Australia’s new chief scientist, Dr Cathy Foley, gave the National Press Club Address for Science mee...
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Gold-standard gravitational measurements
Small-scale experiment could pave the way to observe quantum gravity.
Physicists have recorded the smallest gravitational field ever measured, showing that Newton’s law of gravity holds e...
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Newton in the pilot’s seat
How to land a Mars rover when you’re many, many millions of kilometres away.
It takes a lot of thought and a lot of work to land a rover on Mars. It’s not as if you’re on Earth, where you can ch...
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Stray science stories from last week to cheer up your Monday.
Sharks aren’t so scary Sharks have a very frightening role in our cultural history, but Australians don’t find the...
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You may have missed…
Stray science stories from last week to cheer up your Monday.
Sticky explanation Most of us have had the experience of the food we’re cooking sticking to a non-stick frying pan...
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Super, triple twisted
New three-layer system opens door for high-temperature superconductors.
American physicists have made another advance in superconductor development, building on existing knowledge to create...
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Turbulence trouble
Solving the last great problem of classical physics.
“When I meet God,” physicist Werner Heisenberg allegedly once said, “I’m going to ask him two questions: why relativi...