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Dr Yana Izdebskaya is holding a pipette and small tube filled with red dye

Controlling light with light using dyed liquid crystals

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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Yogesh Sridhar and Sean Hodgman are working in a physics laboratory. There are lots of cords and metal equipment. With a helium atom graphic in the bottom left.
Tuesday, 24 Mar 2026
  • Research story

Quantum physicists at ANU have observed atoms entangled in motion. Their experiment using helium atoms represents a major advancement on similar experiments using photons, which are particles of light.

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Dr Philipp Loesel is looking at detailed 3D scans of on a large display monitor.
Monday, 16 Mar 2026
  • Research story

A team of international researchers have created a first-of-its-kind database of ant data, which combines high-fidelity 3D scans and genetic information for thousands of specimens covering hundreds of species.

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A grey monitor lizard on a rock, with orange colouring on its head, neck and shoulders
Thursday, 12 Mar 2026
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Three striking new species of rock-dwelling monitor lizards have been formally described from the savannas of north-eastern Queensland, revealing a previously unrecognised evolutionary lineage.

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Four people are on stage seated on chairs.
Thursday, 12 Mar 2026
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An opera singer, a vet and a winemaker walked onto a stage. It sounds like the start of a joke. Instead, what unfolded was a thoughtful discussion about curiosity, collaboration and the unpredictable path to scientific discovery.

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A women doctor is treating a women in a doctors office.
Monday, 16 Feb 2026
  • Research story

The bad news: weight bias exists in medicine. The good news: researchers have found promising interventions to support medical students to provide weight-inclusive care.

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A man is holding up a tennis ball and a cylinder / pipe in a research laboratory
Friday, 13 Feb 2026
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New research is helping to define the quality of quantum measurements.

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A marine research vessel with Mount Fuji in the background.
Wednesday, 28 Jan 2026
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A thin, soft and slippery layer of clay-rich mud embedded in rock below the seafloor intensified the 2011 Japan earthquake that produced a tsunami.

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A male researcher in a laboratory
Tuesday, 27 Jan 2026
  • News

Researchers have developed a way to reveal the smallest of malfunctions in the biochemical machinery that makes proteins in our bodies.

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Fires burning on mountain range by the sea.
Thursday, 06 Nov 2025
  • News

Researchers have developed a highly sensitive method for detecting environmental hotspots, such as bushfires or military threats, by harnessing the focusing power of meta-optical systems.

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