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Physicist holds tiny glass cell

Dancing with ghosts to banish magnetic noise

Physicists have devised a way to combine an atomic magnetometer with a gyroscope, using a pulsed laser system and a simple mixture of gases.

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Woman with a phone
Friday, 14 Mar 2025
  • Analysis and opinion

Online mental health programs can be more innovative and less expensive than other types of therapy. But do they actually work?

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ANU students at Kambri
Friday, 14 Mar 2025
  • News

The ANU continues to shine as a leader in research and education, adding more subjects ranked in the top 50 in the competitive QS World University Rankings.

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Artist's reconstruction of a mouse eye
Tuesday, 11 Mar 2025
  • News

New research shows how mice process visual information from both eyes when under threat.

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Light projections at night
Friday, 07 Mar 2025
  • News

Students from the ANU School of Art and Design are showcasing astronomically inspired work as part of the Enlighten festival.

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Four men against a plain white background
Tuesday, 04 Mar 2025
  • News

ANU spinoff company Ability Optics Pty Ltd is accelerating to revolutionise biotechnology with an aim to speed up early lead drug screening by 100-fold.

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Two scientists working in the lab
Friday, 28 Feb 2025
  • News

Researchers have discovered a powerful “weapon” used by many disease-causing fungi to infect and destroy major food crop staples could offer new strategies to bolster global food security.

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bees
Friday, 28 Feb 2025
  • Analysis and opinion

We’ve all heard honeybees are in trouble – but what’s going on and what can we do about it? Beekeepers could have the answers.

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Opening a plaque
Friday, 28 Feb 2025
  • News

The world’s foremost technical organisation has given the Heavy Ion Accelerator Facility (HIAF) at the ANU Research School of Physics global recognition for its technical significance.

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A woman at a piano, singing
Wednesday, 26 Feb 2025
  • Student profile

As part of her PhD at the ANU School of Medicine and Psychology, Katrina Rivera is researching music performance anxiety. “There’s so much judgement about music ingrained into our society," she says. As a result, many people will choose simply not to perform music at all.

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