New chip design for quantum computing
11 September, 2017UNSW engineers have invented a new architecture for quantum computing that promises to make the large-scale manufacture of quantum chips both cheaper and easier than previously thought possible.
Cancer cells may streamline their genomes to replicate faster
26 June, 2017A recent study, conducted in both human and mouse cells, has revealed that cancer cells might streamline their genomes in order to proliferate more easily.
Join the search for exploding stars
17 May, 2017The Australian National University (ANU) is inviting citizen scientists with an interest in astronomy to join a search for exploding stars called supernovae.
Conquering epilepsy with computer science
24 April, 2017 by Vijay Iyer, MathWorksAround 25,000 Australians are diagnosed with epilepsy each year.
Wrong way, turn back: oddball asteroid 'playing chicken' with Jupiter
03 April, 2017 by Lauren DavisAsteroid 2015 BZ509 is the only asteroid in the solar system known to have a clockwise, retrograde orbit around the Sun while at the same time sharing a planet's orbital space.
Plan(et) 9 from outer space
28 March, 2017The Australian National University (ANU) is launching a search for a new planet in our solar system, and you're invited to help make this historic discovery.
Telescope captures the birth of a black hole
02 March, 2017UWA's Zadko Telescope has captured the explosion that gave birth to a black hole 12 billion light years away, which took place before the Earth and Sun existed.
The crystals that power Earth's magnetic field
24 February, 2017Japanese researchers have been investigating the source of energy driving the Earth's magnetic field, hidden deep within its core.
In the red corner: the world's first middleweight black hole
14 February, 2017Astronomers have announced evidence for the existence of a 'middleweight' black hole — otherwise known as the missing link between relatively small, stellar-mass black holes and the supermassive black holes that lie at the centre of some galaxies.
What's killing our galaxies?
08 February, 2017Across the universe, galaxies are being killed, and scientists want to know whodunnit.
The ancient star that faked its age
02 February, 2017German scientists have been investigating the true age of 49 Lib, a relatively bright star in the southern sky, which was until recently believed to be 2.3 billion years old.
Quantum object created in space
27 January, 2017German researchers have successfully created a cloud of ultracold atoms in space — and begun testing a theory of Albert Einstein's in the process.
One giant leap (second) for 2016
11 January, 2017If you can't shake the feeling that 2016 went on for longer than a typical calendar year, you're not actually far from the truth.
Giant galaxies may grow from cold gas
02 December, 2016Giant galaxies may grow from cold gas that condenses as stars, contradicting the theory that they are formed by smaller galaxies falling together in a hot, violent merger.
Mapping the Milky Way
21 October, 2016Australian and German scientists have used the world's largest steerable radio telescopes to create the most detailed map yet of the Milky Way.
