News: School of Physical Sciences

Tiny Research wins Tall Awards

2018 South Australian Young Tall Poppy Science Award winners

They’re working on a small scale to make a big impact in their respective fields. Meet Dr Ben Sparkes and Dr Cameron Shearer.

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Nanocrystals may replace traditional hard drives for data storage

Nanocrystals may replace traditional hard drives for data storage. Image courtesy Travis Jennings - CC BY 3.0.

Physicists discover that nano-sized crystals of salt encoded with data using light from a laser could be the next data storage technology of choice.

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Scientists explore mine over matter

A temporary laboratory installed in the Stawell gold mine.

Scientists are placing giant crystals in an old gold mine more than 1km underground, in order to find elusive dark-matter particles.

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Love Story Wins Sciences 3-Minute Thesis Final

3 Minute Thesis winners 2018

Judges fall in love with Joseph Rossi’s biochemistry story about love and betrayal at the Faculty of Sciences 3-Minute Thesis final.

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A plan to build the world’s fastest charging battery

The University of Adelaide’s newest Ramsay Fellow, Dr James Quach, aims to build world’s fastest charging battery

Our newest Ramsay Fellow, Dr James Quach, aims to build world’s fastest charging battery.

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First evidence of neutrino source discovered in distant galaxy

IceCube

Scientists discover that an energetic galaxy four billion light years from Earth is the source of high-energy neutrino particles.

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Physicists charge ahead with proton discovery

Physicists charge ahead with proton discovery - Parity-violating electron scattering from the proton

A University of Adelaide physicist has assisted in a discovery which may catalyse the ability to solve some of science's biggest remaining mysteries.

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Scientists pumped with new quantum computing potential

Quantum computing pump image

An international team of researchers have developed a new product that moves the world one step closer to reliable, high-performance quantum computing.

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