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Team Australia is needed for quantum success at scale: Foley

There are testing times ahead for Australia’s burgeoning quantum sector, according to Australia’s chief scientist, who on Wednesday warned the emerging companies are working against history to commercialise and scale their world-leading breakthroughs. Dr Cathy Foley, who is leading the development of Australia’s first national quantum strategy, said the difficult…

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Australian quantum leaders form industry alliance

A new industry group of Australian quantum technology leaders has been formed to give the emerging industry a platform to grow opportunity and a “common voice” in the nascent policy landscape. Nine local and international players have come together to form the Australian Quantum Alliance (AGA), which was launched at…

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Quantum technology: Thailand forges ahead in science and technology

Over the years, quantum technology has been researched in advanced countries worldwide, including Thailand which is now speeding up its research to enable wider impacts for future generations.

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Physicists accidentally re-created a rare, weird galaxy in the lab

A computer simulation of a supermassive black hole surprised astrophysicists by producing a rare type of X-shaped radio galaxy.

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We don't know if dark matter exists. So why do astronomers keep looking?

Scientists know very little about the matter that makes up the galaxies in the Universe. About 20% of the matter in galaxies is visible or baryonic: subatomic particles like protons, neutrons and electrons. The other 80%, referred to as “dark matter”, remains mysterious and unseen.

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A quantum computer manufacturing industry for Australia

Silicon Quantum Computing (SQC) is Australia’s first quantum computing company. It is also one of the world’s leading contenders to bring a large-scale quantum computer into commercial production. SQC has assembled a globally recognised team of quantum scientists and engineers, coupled with business practitioners, to develop and commercialise its unique…

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New Webb telescope observations throw a wrench in our understanding of the Big Bang

The latest Webb observations do reveal some strange and unexpected things about the universe

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Our atom-moving laser sculpts matter into weird new shapes – new research

Getting atoms to do what you want isn’t easy – but it’s at the heart of a lot of groundbreaking research in physics.

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Google Doodle pays tribute to Indian physicist and meteorologist Anna Mani

Anna Mani was an Indian physicist and meteorologist, who retired as the Deputy Director General of the Indian Meteorological Department

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NASA Has Released Audio From Inside A Black Hole And I’m Never Sleeping Again

NASA has released audio of the inside of a black hole for humans to hear for the very first time and it is terrifying.

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Peter Tanner obituary

Other lives: Research physicist who worked on a number of inventions that went on to make key contributions to British life

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What are wormholes? An astrophysicist explains these shortcuts through space-time

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskidsus@theconversation.com.

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Prescriptions for a robust quantum industry

Australia and its allies are now faced with a once-in-a-generation opportunity to build a greenfield quantum technology industry, predicted by analysts to be worth over $1 trillion over the next decades. It is perhaps the most significant export opportunity for Australian industry this century and represents a chance for Australia…

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The search for dark matter

In a gold mine at the edge of a rugged mountain range, scientists are searching for something no-one has ever seen.

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Bizarre black holes and dark matter conspired to make the universe as we see it

Primordial black holes could have pulled matter toward it to trigger stellar formation, but matter consumed by a black hole also heats nearby gas, causing it to push away.

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Laboratory to study dark matter opens 1km under Australian town – with no bananas allowed

From deep inside a gold mine in Stawell, Victoria, researchers are hunting for the invisible substance thought to make up 85% of the matter in the universe

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Look! New image shows an elusive black hole behavior for the first time

A reprocessing of Event Horizon Telescope data yields a ring of photons around the black hole at M87.

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Physicists discover a mind-bending puzzle about protons at the quantum level

Quarks can sneak in and give protons a little extra heft now and then.

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5 years ago, scientists observed a new kind of cosmic explosion

Two neutron stars slammed into each other and created a never-before-seen event.

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Astronomers discovered the earliest known dark matter — and it's not behaving as predicted

For the first time, scientists used the radiation residue of the Big Bang to measure dark matter around extremely distant galaxies.

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Scientists at CERN have discovered too many particles for physics to keep up

A naming scheme is an important part of the language used to communicate between people working in particle physics

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Astronomers pinpoint the source of a mysterious cosmic particle

Physicists identify a supernova remnant as a prime suspect.

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Western Gateway bid for nuclear fusion plant on Wales-England border lands further backing

The Severn Edge bid is one of five under consideration by the government as it looks to prove the commercial viability of fusion energy

The Conversation

Arctic is warming nearly four times faster than the rest of the world – new research

The Earth is approximately 1.1℃ warmer than it was at the start of the industrial revolution. That warming has not been uniform, with some regions warming at a far greater pace. One such region is the Arctic.

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Q-CTRL opens new front with quantum sensing division

Sydney-based quantum startup Q-CTRL has officially launched its new quantum sensing division, which it says has already grown to become one of the largest in the world. Showcasing its quantum sensing capabilities for the first time at the Army Quantum Technology Challenge (QTC) in Adelaide this week, the company says…

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