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Australian scientists stalking, sensing and trapping elusive dark matter

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Australian physicists are using all the skills of experienced hunters in their quest for dark matter, the 85 per cent of matter in the Universe we have not been able to detect. And they are getting closer to their quarry.

Members of three separate groups from across the continent will give the latest updates from the hunt at the APPC-AIP Physics Congress in Brisbane.

Dark matter is so called because it does not interact with light or any other electromagnetic radiation. So the physicist hunters need to use all their ingenuity to track it down.  [Read more…] about Australian scientists stalking, sensing and trapping elusive dark matter

Satellites the size of bread; why making anti-matter matters; telescopes on a chip; our neutrino world and more

Monday 5 December 2016

A new constellation of Australian satellites – packed up and ready for launch in 2017 (Canberra)

Credit: Stuart Hay, ANU
Credit: Stuart Hay, ANU

Australia is heading into space: Professor Christine Charles (ANU) was part of the Australian team of Universities that are launching Australian research satellites into space for the first time in over a decade.

Three Australian designed and built cubesats – satellites the size of a loaf of bread – are soon to be launched into space as part of the EU QB 50 Program.

Credit: Stuart Hay, ANU
Credit: Stuart Hay, ANU

Charles’ plasma thruster system for spacecraft is just one of the Aussie ideas which is being studied to extend the capabilities of nano-satellites. Christine Charles will explain the possibilities for this renaissance of Australian space science.

[Read more…] about Satellites the size of bread; why making anti-matter matters; telescopes on a chip; our neutrino world and more

Shape shifting particles; underground labs; QLD’s forgotten Nobel Prize winner; and more

Sunday 4 December 2016

  • Highlights from Day 1 of the Physics Congress
  • Australian and international researchers available for interview throughout the week
  • For more highlights, and daily updates visit www.scienceinpublic.com.au/physicscongress

Our neutrino world – explained by 2015 Nobel Prize winner Professor Takaaki Kajita

We live in a world of neutrinos. Thousands of billions of neutrinos—mostly created by the Sun—are flowing through your body every second. You cannot see them and you do not feel them. So how did we discover they have mass, and why does that challenge our standard model of the Universe?

Professor Kajita will give a public lecture, telling the story of shape-shifting particles and underground super-labs on Monday night hosted by Australian physicist Hans Bachor (ANU), with early career astrophysicist Tamara Davis (UQ) and neutrino physicist Yvonne Wong (UNSW).  [Read more…] about Shape shifting particles; underground labs; QLD’s forgotten Nobel Prize winner; and more

Shape-shifting particles and underground super labs: 2015 Nobel Prize winner tells his story

aip2016-web-banner-thin Public Lecture 7pm Monday 5 December

Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre, Great Halls 1 & 2

Register for the event here: www.trybooking.com/OBQF

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We live in a world of neutrinos. Thousands of billions of neutrinos—mostly created by the Sun—are flowing through your body every second. You cannot see them and you do not feel them; and they are very hard for scientists to measure.

Then, when scientists were finally able to catch them, there were fewer than they expected. But why? Was our Sun losing its power?

Join us on Monday 5 December for a free public lecture by the winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics 2015, Professor Takaaki Kajita: the man credited with the discovery of neutrino oscillations, and the solution to this riddle. [Read more…] about Shape-shifting particles and underground super labs: 2015 Nobel Prize winner tells his story

Transforming Indonesia and Australia with science and innovation

We’re assisting with media for the Australia-Indonesia Science Symposium, held in Canberra from Monday 28 November – Thursday 1 December.

Transforming Indonesia and Australia with science and innovation

Australian and Indonesian Ministers open international science symposium

 

Monday 28 November at the Shine Dome, Canberra
Opening ceremony 8.30 am, press call with Ministers 9:20 am with

  • Senator the Hon. Concetta Fierravanti-Wells, Australia’s Minister for International Development and the Pacific
  • Dr Bambang PS Brodjonegoro, Indonesia’s Minister of National Development Planning
  • Professor Andrew Holmes, President of the Australian Academy of Science
  • Professor Sangkot Marzuki, President of the Indonesian Academy of Sciences

Indonesia is on track to become the fourth largest economy in the world by 2050. It’s undergoing massive economic and social change. Poverty is falling, health is improving, the nation is urbanising. The nation is hungry for energy, health, water and food security. Its people are early adopters of new technologies from social media to big data.

[Read more…] about Transforming Indonesia and Australia with science and innovation

Photos from the Australia-Indonesia Science Symposium

Dr Bambang PS Brodjonegoro, (Indonesia’s Minister of National Development Planning), Professor Sangkot Marzuki (President of the Indonesian Academy of Sciences), Senator the Hon. Concetta Fierravanti-Wells (Australia’s Minister for International Development and the Pacific) and Professor Andrew Holmes (President of the Australian Academy of Science) (photo credit: Bradley Cummings)
Dr Bambang PS Brodjonegoro, (Indonesia’s Minister of National Development Planning), Professor Sangkot Marzuki (President of the Indonesian Academy of Sciences), Senator the Hon. Concetta Fierravanti-Wells (Australia’s Minister for International Development and the Pacific) and Professor Andrew Holmes (President of the Australian Academy of Science) (photo credit: Bradley Cummings)

[Read more…] about Photos from the Australia-Indonesia Science Symposium

Safran media release

Safran Power Units, Amaero Engineering and Monash University announce a strategic partnership to deliver 3D printing aerospace components

Melbourne’s 3D jet engine technology flies into production in France

Launch at the Australian Embassy in Paris, France

Tuesday 8 November, 2016

French aerospace company Safran Power Units has signed an agreement with Australia’s Amaero Engineering and Monash University to print aerospace components.

“We will make components for auxiliary power units and turbojet engines within the Safran Power Units factory in Toulouse,” said Mr Barrie Finnin, CEO of Monash spin-out company Amaero. [Read more…] about Safran media release

Safran Power Units, Amaero Engineering et l’Université Monash annoncent un partenariat stratégique pour la production de composants aéronautiques imprimés en 3D

La production de moteurs à réaction basée sur la technologie australienne d’impression 3D démarre en France

Mercredi  9 novembre, 2016

La société aéronautique française Safran Power Units a conclu avec ses partenaires australiens Amaero Engineering et l’Université Monash un accord portant sur l’impression de composants aéronautiques.

« Nous fabriquerons, avec l’usine Safran Power Units de Toulouse, des composants pour les groupes auxiliaires de puissance et les turboréacteurs », explique Barrie Finnin, PDG d’Amaero, une société issue de l’Université Monash. [Read more…] about Safran Power Units, Amaero Engineering et l’Université Monash annoncent un partenariat stratégique pour la production de composants aéronautiques imprimés en 3D