‘Camera’ captures shockwaves as quantum bit forms inside a crystal
Scientists have recorded what happens inside a crystal in the split second before a quantum bit forms. A…
JWST finds early galaxies were already spreading the ingredients for planets and life
JWST spectra reveal carbon, oxygen and silicon in gas associated with three galaxies seen when the universe was…
ANSTO nuclear reactor marks 20 years of health and technology innovation
Behind the dense bushland and barbed wire that surround the Open Pool Australian Lightwater (OPAL) nuclear reactor is…
Pulverised recycled glass helps boost farm productivity with benefits to soil, plants and livestock
A growing number of Australian farmers are spraying or spreading pulverised glass on their paddocks to boost the…
US makes room-temperature multiferroic for low-energy computing
Engineers at Rice University in the U.S. have developed a new room-temperature multiferroic material that shows a 10-fold…
Atomic tweak turns silicon into high-efficiency quantum light source
In the strange world of quantum physics, even the tiniest tweak can unlock outsized rewards. In a new…
Scientists discover onion-like layering in Earth’s inner core
Earth’s inner core has long challenged researchers because seismic waves do not move through it uniformly. Compressional waves…
Bic Runga Returns To Australia With First New Album In 15 Years
Strap yourselves in, nostalgics – Bic Runga is finally coming back to Australia. And it’s not just a…
Maximizing Processor Efficiency With the LEAN Metric
In July, a University of Michigan computer engineering professor put out a new idea for measuring the efficiency…
‘Microwave brain’ chip for ultrafast, wireless computing unveiled
Cornell University researchers have developed a low-power microchip called ‘microwave brain’ – a processor that can compute on…
China’s Z.ai and America’s Self-Defeating AI Strategy
China’s DeepSeek shocked the global AI community in January by building a frontier model at a fraction of…