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physics

Turning on the atom laser

12 July 2008

The first practical atom laser is a step closer today thanks to Australian researchers.

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Little ripples, big swirl

16 August 2007

How mini-earthquakes and tornados could one day be saving lives
 Monash University engineer Leslie Yeo is using tiny earthquakes and tornados to assist the detection of biohazards and germ warfare. He and collaborator James Friend at the Micro/Nanophysics Research Laboratory hope to integrate their technology into an inexpensive, credit-card-sized sensor within five to ten years.

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Sound solution for soil pollution

21 August 2006

The cleaning power of sound waves on the back of a truck
A young researcher in Sydney is cleaning up contaminated soil by blasting it with ultrasound.
Andrea Sosa Pintos from CSIRO Industrial Physics has shown that toxic and carcinogenic pollutants, such as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), can be decomposed quickly, easily and [...]

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More to droplets than meets the eye

8 August 2006

Salads, shampoos and mining to benefit from theoretical
research into droplets
How much effort does it take to understand the behaviour of oil droplets?
A multi-disciplinary team of six researchers from the University of Melbourne
has spent the best part of two years, and used $300,000 of equipment to crack
the problem.

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