The Astronomical Society of Australia (ASA) honoured six astronomers at its Annual Scientific Meeting in Adelaide this week, including two ANU scientists.
Last week NASA launched a spacecraft to rendezvous with Psyche. The mission will take a six-year, 3.6 billion kilometre journey to gather clues that Earth scientists will interrogate for information about the inaccessible interior of our own world.
The dire state of mountain ash (Eucalyptus regnans) forests in Victoria’s Central Highlands has been brought to light in a new study from The Australian National University (ANU) and the World Wide Fund for Nature – Australia (WWF - Australia).
Quantum teleportation is already being used in encrypted networks. It allows information to be shared instantly between linked, or entangled, quantum objects. But this new finding makes the system more resilient to noise and loss.
To shake us out of business as usual, we have to fast-track regulatory change, upskill the workforce, future-proof national infrastructure, embed a zero-waste approach to supply chains and massively boost business investment. Here’s how.