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School of Physics student wins Prime Minister Endeavour Australia Award[30 April 2012]
PhD student Patrick "Paddy" Neumann from the School of Physics University of Sydney will continue his research overseas after being awarded Prime Minister's Australia Asia Awards in the 2012 round of the Endeavour Australia Awards. More
Quantum simulation with hundreds of quibits[12 April 2012]
A tiny crystal that enables a computer to perform calculations that currently stump the world's most powerful supercomputers has been developed by an international team including the University of Sydney's Dr Michael Biercuk. More
Uncovering a secret weight-loss trick from the galaxy's biggest stars[12 April 2012]
Putting all dieters to shame, the red giant stars of our galaxy lose many times the entire mass of the Earth, every year. More
New ultra small laser opens up a world of possibilities[4 April 2012]
An international team of scientists, including Dr David Moss, from the University of Sydney's School of Physics, has created a new form of ultra small laser that will revolutionise many fields. More
Professor Joss Bland-Hawthorn elected as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science[29 March 2012]
Professor Joss Bland-Hawthorn, from the School of Physics, has been elected as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, announced on 26 March 2012. More
A killer entrance: the devastating effects of space travel[8 March 2012]
Rapid long distance space travel could create the ultimate killer entrance - not in a stylish way, but by annihilating anything around a landing spacecraft, according to Prof Geraint Lewis & two of his students More
CAASTRO brings astronomy and music together[5 March 2012]
Exploring the connections between astronomy and music, Professor Bryan Gaensler, Director of CAASTRO - the ARC Centre of Excellence for All-Sky Astrophysics - will present at a special concert presented by Musica Viva and Canadian chamber orchestra, Tafelmusik, on Saturday 10 March. More
Nanodiamonds, perhaps an astrophysicists best friend[17 February 2012]
Professor David McKenzie from the University of Sydney School of Physics has led a team that may give new understanding of why diamond is so common in space. More
Intermediate Black Holes and Revelations[16 February 2012]
A research team led by Dr Sean Farrell, at the Sydney Institute for Astronomy at the University of Sydney, has found that a newly discovered type of black hole - an Intermediate Mass Black Hole - reveals clues on how galaxies are formed. More
Professor Ben Eggleton wins Walter Boas Medal[3 February 2012]
Prof. Ben Eggleton, Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Ultrahigh bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems (CUDOS) in the School of Physics, has won the Walter Boas Medal from the Australian Institute of Physics. More
Astronomer awarded prestigious RAS medal[13 January 2012]
School of Physics astronomer and astrophotonics pioneer, Professor Joss Bland-Hawthorn, has been awarded the 2012 Jackson Gwilt medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS). More
One step closer in the search for the Higgs boson[15 December 2011]
University of Sydney scientists working with an international team using the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland, have made an important step towards the discovery of the Higgs boson. More