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Associate Professor David Simpson
Research Fellow in Quantum Sensing, School of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Melbourne
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Sciences & Technology
Looking inside a pigeon’s ear using quantum technology
Quantum microscopy is able to image tiny biological magnetic structures inside a pigeon’s ear and may help to explain how animals use magnetic fields to navigate
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Sciences & Technology
Magnetic teeth revealed using quantum imaging
Scientists have used new quantum magnetic imaging techniques to study the hardest known biomineral – the magnetite found in mollusc teeth – which may inspire new industrial materials
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Sciences & Technology
What has Quantum ever done for me?
Much of quantum computing exists primarily in theory. Quantum sensing, however, is already here
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Sciences & Technology
Podcast
The Quantum sensing revolution
Quantum sensors can detect tiny changes at the level below the atom, and it’s leading to entirely new questions about how our biological systems work
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Sciences & Technology
Quantum 2.0: At the beating heart of biology
What is life? The question was posed by famous theoretical physicist Erwin Schrödinger, and now advances in quantum mechanics could help provide the answer
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Health & Medicine
Putting cells through their paces
An obstacle course for human lung cells could be the answer for better testing the effectiveness of potential new drugs