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Physicists Taming the Quantum World

Two UQ physicists have taken to the big screen to explain how the weird and wonderful world of quantum principles is being tamed to advance our future technologies. Professor Gerard Milburn and Professor Andrew White...

15 Oct 2009

Argonne and Berkeley Lab to Examine Cloud Computing for Scientists to Accelerate Nanotechnology Discoveries

A new program funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act through the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) will examine cloud computing as a cost-effective and energy-efficient computing paradigm for scientists to accelerate discoveries in a variety of disciplines, including analysis of scientific data sets in biology, climate change and physics.

From Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 14 Oct 2009

Scientists Apply Optical Methods to Nano-Mechanical Objects

A team of scientists from the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics and the Ludwig Maximilians University have succeeded in applying a novel optical method to nano-mechanical oscillators. New fabrication techniques have enabled the development of on-chip mechanical elements whose dimensions are on the nanometre (one millionth of a millimetre) scale.

14 Oct 2009

Revolutionary 3D CMOS Camera Makes Impact in Biomedical Imaging

European researchers have created a world-leading camera in CMOS that can record photons at a million times a second. Best of all, it will be really cheap to manufacture, offering applications in consumer products, entertainment and in-car safety systems.

14 Oct 2009