Our Testing Traces Team have been nominated for a Eureka Prize! These chemical forensics are on the hunt for new and dangerous substances, investigating drug testing samples to protect the community through early intervention #EurekaPrizes @cantestcbr.bsky.social @eurekaprizes.bsky.social

Meet the team identifying new and dangerous substances in the illicit drug market

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There’s still time to join us for STEM Challenges 2026. Unique questions to grow your scientific skills with a social community of STEMthusiasts to inspire you – what's not to love? It all kicks off on 4 August, register now!

2026 STEM Challenges

This event series is an opportunity for high school and college students to participate in fun and hands-on weekly challenges on a range of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) top...

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ICYMI ⚛️ Our experimental physicist Sean Hodgman joins @neildegrassetyson.com on StarTalk to explain his research observing atoms in two places at once: www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfFu...

Is Entanglement the Key to a Theory of Quantum Gravity? with Sean Hodgman

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What happens in the deep ocean might seem far removed from your everyday life. A new study shows otherwise.

Tiny waves in the deep ocean can affect the climate thousands of kilometres away

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A new way to set up quantum ops/gates sends info thru trapped ions like a Newton's cradle. Zap a laser pulse, watch ions wiggle, hit em again = 2 entangled ions 100x faster than before! Niv work Izzy Savill-Brown & Zain Mehdi physics.anu.edu.au/news_events/... @aip.org.au @scienceanu.bsky.social

Why are nanobubbles used to clean America's highest profile pool in Washington? Prof Vince Craig & Noura Alzaidan from Materials Physics explain the fascinating properties of nanobubbles, in @theconversation.com physics.anu.edu.au/news_events/... @aip.org.au @scienceanu.bsky.social

What exactly happens at the surface of a black hole? It's almost impossible to know - unless you unravel signals from black holes colliding! Amazing work with gravitational waves by Neil Lu & Ling Sun @scienceanu.bsky.social CGA & @ozgrav.bsky.social physics.anu.edu.au/news_events/... @aip.org.au

This week our professional and technical staff attended the inaugural ACRI conference that brought together Australia's research infrastructure workforce. It was a golden opportunity to swap stories and experiences of working in research infrastructure and to form new connections and collaborations.

A global team has cracked a decades-old mystery, revealing the atomic structures of the molecules in our eyes that allow us to see colours. “To understand how we detect light and perceive colours, we need to know the exact structure of light-sensitive molecules in our eyes.”

Scientists uncover molecular secrets of how we see colour

A global team has cracked a decades-old mystery, revealing the atomic structures of the molecules in our eyes that allow us to see colours.

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Very fun to chat with BBC World Service about Bluetooth and how it's powering our bird tracking projects. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w... @scienceanu.bsky.social @biologyanu.bsky.social

BBC World Service - CrowdScience, How does Bluetooth work?

Bluetooth lets us share files and listen to music without wires. But how does it work?

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Today I presented my talk at ASSAB 2026 (@animbehav.bsky.social) about my experimental work investigating innovation and social learning in wild cockatoos. Always a privilege to share my work, and hear what everyone else is up to across the Australasian region!

What are nanobubbles and why would they be used to address an algal bloom? ANU researchers Professor Vincent Craig and Noura Alzaidan from @physicsanu.bsky.social share their expertise with @aunz.theconversation.com theconversation.com/the-lincoln-...

The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool is treated with ‘nanobubbles’. What are they and how do they work?

Nanobubbles are invisible, mysteriously stable, a thousand times thinner than a human hair, and surprisingly versatile.

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Should we stop viewing ignorance only as a problem? Emeritus Professor Michael Smithson says it's time for psychology to form a social constructivist view of ignorance science.anu.edu.au/news-events/...

Rethinking what we think we know about ignorance

Should we stop viewing ignorance only as a problem? In his new book, Emeritus Professor Michael Smithson explores why psychology needs to pay more attention to what we don't know. Arguing that ignoran...

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Join us on campus & online on Thursday, 25 June 2026 at 1pm for a seminar by Dr Shimona Kealy, ARC Early-Career Industry Fellow, from the ANU and the Australian Museum. Details: biology.anu.edu.au/news-events/...

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New analysis of cosmic debris from the ocean floor points to a mysterious huge explosion more than 100 million years ago. A great collaboration between ANU, @ansto.bsky.social & HZDR in Germany. physics.anu.edu.au/news_events/... @aip.org.au @scienceanu.bsky.social

ANU has climbed three places to 29th in the QS World University Rankings 2027. Read more: quicklink.anu.edu.au/4ac4

Prof Lan Fu's amazing journey with Ketone Innovations ketoneinnovations.com.au turning nanomaterials into life-changing breath-monitoring for diabetes "I had no idea that I'd change a person’s life in this way" physics.anu.edu.au/news_events/... @aip.org.au @anff.org.au @scienceanu.bsky.social

A/Prof Rose Ahlefeldt on Decoding the Future Podcast on quantum computing. She breaks down one of the most misunderstood technologies of our time. They also talk real-world applications, like cryptography, drug discovery. open.spotify.com/episode/5PiX... @scienceanu.bsky.social @aip.org.au

Ep-18 Quantum Computing

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Catch some amazing presentations at Pint of Science in Canberra next week. Tickets: pintofscience.com.au/events/canbe...

How to use signals from black hole collisions to measure & correct detectors that observed them. "How cool is that!” says Dr Lilli Sun @ozgrav.bsky.social, & Int'l team, part of @ligo.org & team from@swinburneuni.bsky.social physics.anu.edu.au/news_events/... @aip.org.au @scienceanu.bsky.social

Thrilled to share that our team’s latest work is now live in @natcomms.nature.com ! 🔬, we established RO-iSCAT (speckle-free iSCAT) and use it to track membrane protrusions in 3D. *Online* www.nature.com/articles/s41... *PDF* rdcu.be/fiFM3 *Press* www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

Using rotational integration of oblique interferometric scattering to track axial spatiotemporal responses of tubular membrane protrusions - Nature Communications

The authors develop RO-iSCAT, which uses rotational integration of off-axis oblique-illuminated interference scattering signals to remove speckle noise in real time. It enables fast, label-free imagin...

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A new label-free nanoscale imaging technique has revealed intricate cellular behaviours previously invisible to conventional microscopes. science.anu.edu.au/news-events/...

Join us on campus & online on Monday, 18 May 2026 at 1.00pm for a RSB Director's Seminar by Professor Jochen J. Brocks, Research School of Earth Sciences, ANU. Details: biology.anu.edu.au/news-events/...

RSB Director's Seminar: Lost world of complex life and the late rise of the eukaryotic crown

RSB Director's Seminar featuring Professor Jochen J. Brocks, Research School of Earth Sciences, ANU.

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Congrats Liquid Instruments, ANU spin out, securing $70M, to develop new class of AI-driven software, with Keysight & NRFC. Their software consolidates multiple instruments into a single reconfigurable measurement platform physics.anu.edu.au/news_events/... @scienceanu.bsky.social @aip.org.au

An Australian Laureate Fellowship is helping Professor Hrvoje Tkalčić explore the hidden interiors of Earth, the Moon and Mars, to reveal new insights into how planets evolve and what it takes to sustain life. @anu-rses.bsky.social science.anu.edu.au/news-events/...

An ANU researcher’s journey from the centre of Earth to Mars and beyond

An Australian Laureate Fellowship is helping Professor Hrvoje Tkalčić explore the hidden interiors of Earth, the Moon and Mars, to reveal new insights into how planets evolve and what it takes to sust...

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Welcoming Chief Scientist Tony Haymet to quantum labs, iiLab & HIAF @hia-accelerates.bsky.social Talks with @jodiebradby.bsky.social & Nanda Dasgupta on training & capacity building, how infrastructure capabilities & expertise build our international connections @scienceanu.bsky.social @aip.org.au

Interested in collaborating with our lab? Why not visit? Visitors have published chapters, got new ideas and made new collaborations. At @scienceanu.bsky.social we have much to offer, including joining for cool field work and seeing great wildlife. Details here: sites.google.com/site/drfarin...

Home - Visit the lab

We welcome visiting PhD students and postdocs in the lab Since 2016, I have hosted dozens of visiting students. Together, we have completed many chapters and published many papers. These visits have ...

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Marcus Doherty - Quantum Brilliance

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Liquid crystals mixed photosensitive dye = light controlling light: makes static components dynamic & tunable. The @tmos-arc.bsky.social/ANU team is dreaming of hologram videos built from this powerful technology... one day physics.anu.edu.au/news_events/... @scienceanu.bsky.social @aip.org.au