MegaVolts 13 Asteroid strikes, ancient glaciers, landslides! UNSW Prof Tim Barrows uses HIAF’s AMS to reveal history of earth: scraped by glaciers, crumbled in landslides & pounded by asteroids

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Researchers develop highly sensitive method to detect hotspots in the environment eg bushfires or military threats by harnessing the focussing power of metaoptics to collect & process infrared radiation

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Celebrating RadInnovate ARC Training Centre's launch, taking Australia's sovereign capabilities in nuclear science & technology to the next level
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Throwing away data is the surprising way to make quantum comms systems 3x more secure. And it's useful in space too! Nice work Ozlem Erkilic, Biveen Shajilal, Dept QST, CQC2T & A*STAR
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Growing crystals for lasers, rather than sculpting them, has yielded a record efficiency for nanolasers, and could transform technology such as AR goggles.
Great work out of @tmos-arc.bsky.social and EME Dept
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Reimagining how light & matter interact, a solution that can be built onto anything, from glass panels to contact lenses.” Dr Mudassar Nauman on dynamically tuning advanced optical processes at visible wavelengths.

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Metamaterials can create powerful lenses from tiny structures, now you can layer up to focus multiple wavelengths at once! Nice work @tmos-arc.bsky.social & EME team!

Check out the crazy designs the Ai found!

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Congratulations to @supersubatomic.bsky.social awarded a Future Fellowship to study forgetful nuclear reactions: one of the most important, supporting real-world applications & helping develop a generation of Australian experts

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Proud to host Your Quantum Future, free @aip.org.au Women in Physics lecture by @spintronicmum.bsky.social on August 5.

The quantum spin of electrons is powering new technology. Learn how, why & what society should do to prepare for the coming quantum revolution. www.aip.org.au/event-6234700

A new method to generate quantum photon pairs with tunable entanglement using a metasurface a thousand times thinner than a human hair
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Great work from @tmos-arc.bsky.social Andrey Sukhorukov, Jinyong Ma Tuomas Haggren & Tongmiao Fan from @scienceanu.bsky.social

Bogong Space Thruster attracts attention from the Taiwanese Space Agency, inviting Rod Boswell to visit.

Bogong is a cold gas thruster uses solid naphthalene fuel, ideal for small satellites being commercialised by Boswell Technologies.

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Creating sunscreen for satellites, important work protecting our spacecraft by Prof Patrick Kluth and Dr Shankar Dutt - could save the industry millions.

Hat tip lovely video from @scienceanu.bsky.social
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How to drive a tiny machine? No electricity needed, make it spin with a circularly polarised laser.
Ivan Toftul, Nonlinear Physics Centre, used resonance to enhance torque, surprised wtih efficiency 6x the 'limit'
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Spacecraft could soon carry sophisticated polarisation-sensitive optics, using metasurfaces a tiny fraction of current optics. Plus they can analyse & filter all polarisations which boosts satellite imaging.

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Cut magnetic noise by dancing with ghosts; New device measures rotation & magnetic fields improving sensitivity drastically.
Add alkali gas (sensitive to laser) to noble gas (invisible, like a ghost) pulse mag/laser fields & watch the magnetic dance, of precession
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