Particle Physics
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Sciences & Technology
Dark matter might be ‘light’
We don’t know the mass of dark matter particles, so researchers are developing new techniques to look for new, lighter types
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Health & Medicine
Everyone can help forge a safe ending to what Oppenheimer began
While no film can convey everything about nuclear weapons, Oppenheimer is a timely reminder of how fallible humans created the first weapons that could destroy our world
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Sciences & Technology
Digging deep for dark matter
A dark matter laboratory at the bottom of a gold mine in rural Victoria could make one of the biggest scientific discoveries ever – proving the existence of dark matter
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Sciences & Technology
Using neutron stars to detect dark matter
The search for dark matter may need a detector larger than we can build on Earth, but it could be that a neutron star can do the job
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Sciences & Technology
Podcast
Catching sight of dark matter
This century, one the biggest challenges in fundamental physics will be to really understand the nature of dark matter, explains Professor of Physics Elisabetta Barberio
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Sciences & Technology
Under the Microscope
The dark matter detective
High energy physicist Professor Elisabetta Barberio is leading groundbreaking Australian research in the hunt for dark matter and it’s all happening deep underground
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Sciences & Technology
Podcast
Honey I shrunk the particles!
Nanodyamics, super sponges and jumping out of a plane in the name of science
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Sciences & Technology
The exciting future of light energy
Excitons are formed when light is absorbed by electrons within a molecule, and we’re just beginning to understand the role they could play in meeting the world’s future energy needs
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Sciences & Technology
Under the Microscope
Chasing the secrets of the universe
Rising star and physicist Phillip Urquijo, winner of the Eureka Prize Emerging Leader in Science award 2015, is working on some of the remaining puzzles in fundamental physics