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Dr Ling (Lilli) Sun, Mallika Sinha and Dr Yi Shuen Christine Lee are sitting on steps outside a building on a sunny day.

How black hole mergers are helping scientists calibrate the Universe’s most sensitive instruments

An international team has shown that gravitational waves, ripples in space and time produced by some of the most violent events in the Universe, such as the collision of two black holes, can be used to measure and correct the calibration of the detectors that observe them.

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Dr Ling (Lilli) Sun, Mallika Sinha and Dr Yi Shuen Christine Lee are sitting on steps outside a building on a sunny day.
Thursday, 14 May 2026
  • News

An international team has shown that gravitational waves, ripples in space and time produced by some of the most violent events in the Universe, such as the collision of two black holes, can be used to measure and correct the calibration of the detectors that observe them.

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Professor Hrvoje Tkalčić is standing outside an Earth Science building.
Tuesday, 05 May 2026
  • Research story

An Australian Laureate Fellowship is helping Professor Hrvoje Tkalčić explore the hidden interiors of Earth, the Moon and Mars, to reveal new insights into how planets evolve and what it takes to sustain life.

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Dr Yana Izdebskaya is holding a pipette and small tube filled with red dye
Thursday, 30 Apr 2026
  • Research story

The team of ANU Physicists has developed an innovative way to take static devices and make them dynamically tunable with light, an important capability for developing flexible and powerful light-based technology - photonics.

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Professor Daniel Shaddock has his arm leaning on a desk, with a liquid instruments product that looks similar to a wifi router
Wednesday, 29 Apr 2026
  • News

Canberra-based technology company Liquid Instruments has secured major investment to accelerate the commercialisation of its platform that is reshaping how engineers interact with complex systems.

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Dr Jekaterina Viktorova and Ben Wilkinson pictured indoors with a brick wall in the background
Tuesday, 28 Apr 2026
  • News

Semiconductor technology company Syenta founded from research at The Australian National University (ANU), has secured major investment to accelerate the commercialisation of its technology that unlocks next-generation AI a system performance.

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Associate Professor Ana Sequeira is photographed with a campus landscape behind her.
Wednesday, 22 Apr 2026
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Associate Professor Ana Sequeira's globally-recognised research offers potential to reshape marine protection, as one-third of species face extinction.

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Nhung Nghiem and Mark Polizzotto are seated in an office and talking to each other..
Tuesday, 07 Apr 2026
  • News

Professor Mark Polizzotto has won an NHMRC award for his global study testing whether a daily tablet could replace chemotherapy for a cancer that kills up to half its patients in Africa.

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Aerial view of creek and modern buildings
Thursday, 02 Apr 2026
  • News

Five talented researchers from The Australian National University (ANU) have been recognised by the Australian Academy of Science for advancing scientific research.

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Superb fairy wren on a fence
Wednesday, 01 Apr 2026
  • News

Superb fairy-wrens are facing “imminent danger” and a well-studied population in Canberra could go extinct in the next 30 years if we don’t urgently curb greenhouse gas emissions, warn an international team of scientists, including researchers.

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