The detection of energy signals from strong winter storms in the North Atlantic Ocean which travel through the Earth’s core could enhance understanding of our solar system, according to new ANU research.
Playing with piping hot plasma. Imagine that a nuclear fusion device is an above-ground swimming pool, and piping hot plasma is the water that fills the pool right to the brim. Now work out ways that you can double the volume of water without making waves, spilling it over the edge or causing the pool’s walls to rupture.
To help scientists better understand processes behind learning and memory, ANU PhD student Jason Whitfield has developed a new tool to track communication between cells within the brain.
At high school you’d be lucky if you were allowed to boil water, but University labs are infinitely more interesting because you get to work with more high-tech equipment.