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Monash Scientists Score Second Place in International NASA Miniature Rover Challenge

A team of Monash students has come second in NASA’s ‘Honey I shrunk the NASA Payload’ Challenge.

22 Jul 2020

New Optical Technique to Modulate Plasmonic Response of Graphene

Surface plasmons in graphene have been widely studied in the past decade due to their very appealing properties, such as the strong tunability of its optical properties through electrical gating and the relatively high plasmon lifetime.

22 Jul 2020

New Study Opens Pathway to Scale Up Silicon Quantum Computers

Led by Prof. Sven Rogge, a Chief Investigator at the Centre for Quantum Computation and Communication Technology (CQC2T), a research team has achieved a considerable increase in the coherence time of a spin-orbit qubit in silicon, which enables the preservation of quantum information for a longer time.

21 Jul 2020

Excitons in van der Waals Antiferromagnet Could Help Improve Quantum Computing

While things can invariably be done faster, nothing can beat light. Calculating with light rather than electricity is considered an advancement to increase the speed of computers.

21 Jul 2020

Global Hunt to Detect Collisions in Space

The results of a long-term observation campaign to detect the collision of compact objects in the Universe has been announced by a global collaboration including The University of Western Australia.

21 Jul 2020

Researchers Achieve Quantum Magnetometry of Highest Precision

Quantum magnetometry, one of the most important applications in quantum metrology, aims to measure the magnetic field in highest precision.

21 Jul 2020

Scientists Develop a Method to Classify Gamma-Ray Bursts

By applying a machine-learning algorithm, scientists at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, have developed a method to classify all gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), rapid highly energetic explosions in distant galaxies, without needing to find an afterglow - by which GRBs are presently categorized.

20 Jul 2020

New Project to Develop Robust Superconductors for Powerful Particle Accelerators

Researchers from the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory headquartered at Florida State University have been granted $1.5 million by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to create powerful, more efficient superconductors that could result in robust particle accelerators and new findings about the universe.

20 Jul 2020

Studies Measure History of Cosmic Expansion in Huge Volume of Early Universe

On July 20th, 2020, the extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS) collaboration reported a series of latest scientific results in more than 20 papers.

20 Jul 2020