A giant galaxy cluster, more gravitational waves and life outside the solar system
16 June, 2016It's been a busy couple of days for astronomers, with announcements of three significant discoveries taking place in the past 48 hours.
Motors on a mission for NASA
06 June, 2016As part of NASA's Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) research project, motors from FAULHABER are helping to examine the Earth's magnetic field.
US govt invests in Sydney quantum research
04 May, 2016An international consortium has been awarded a multimillion-dollar research grant from the US government agency Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity for research into quantum technology.
Sydney Nanoscience Hub officially opens
20 April, 2016The $150 million Sydney Nanoscience Hub was officially opened as part of a two-day conference on the theme of nanoscale science and technology.
Chemical design without metals
08 December, 2015Rice University scientists have synthesised dozens of small-molecule catalysts — tools that promise to speed the making of novel chemicals, including drugs — without the use of transition metals.
Giant Magellan Telescope ready for construction
24 November, 2015Atop a remote mountain in the Chilean Andes, construction on the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) is about to begin.
The mystery of organic matter in lunar samples
30 October, 2015Scientists have solved a mystery which has plagued NASA since the Apollo missions to the moon — the fact that samples of lunar soil brought back to Earth contained low levels of organic matter in the form of amino acids.
No sign of advanced alien civilisations
18 September, 2015Professor Michael Garrett has used radio observations of candidate galaxies to show that advanced civilisations are very rare or entirely absent from the local universe.
Precisely testing the speed of light
15 September, 2015Australian and German researchers have completed testing that has effectively measured the spatial consistency of the speed of light with a precision 10 times greater than ever before.
A re-usable system for launching satellites
11 August, 2015The University of Queensland is developing a re-usable system that would make it cheaper and easier to launch satellites into space.
What does Einstein have to do with space travel?
11 August, 2015One hundred years after Albert Einstein first penned his theory of general relativity, Professor Geraint Lewis says we're only now starting to scratch the surface of what the theory predicts.
Two giant leaps for mankind
17 July, 2015It's been an exciting couple of weeks in the field of astronomy, with scientists both discovering new worlds and finding out more about old ones.
The sky's the limit: construction approved for the Giant Magellan Telescope
24 June, 2015 by Lauren DavisJune 2015 marked a major milestone in the field of astronomy, with construction approval announced for the highly anticipated Giant Magellan Telescope — the biggest optical telescope in the world.
Quantum tunnelling is an instantaneous process
01 June, 2015An international team of scientists studying ultrafast physics has solved a mystery of quantum mechanics, finding that quantum tunnelling is an instantaneous process.
Reality does not exist until it is measured
29 May, 2015Physicists at The Australian National University (ANU) have performed a famous experiment in quantum theory, created by the late theoretical physicist John Wheeler, which suggests that reality does not exist until it is measured.
