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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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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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Researcher Francis Bennet is operating a large telescope inside a telescope dome that is open to the sky.
Monday, 30 Mar 2026
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ANU is partnering with NASA as it prepares to send astronauts back to the moon as part of the Artemis II mission – the space agency’s first crewed mission beyond Earth’s orbit in more than 50 years.

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Yogesh Sridhar and Sean Hodgman are working in a physics laboratory. There are lots of cords and metal equipment
Thursday, 26 Mar 2026
  • Research story

In a new quantum physics experiment, ANU researchers have shown that matter can experience entanglement – an effect Einstein dismissed as ‘spooky action at a distance’.

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