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Excitement Mounts As New Telescope Nears First Light
AI and Symmetry Accelerate the Design of Sound-Absorbing Woven Materials
Tiny platform creates and directs microbubbles on demand
HKUST Researchers Redraw the Boundary between Phases of Matter
WSS 2026 Speech – Marie Owens Thomsen, Senior Vice President Sustainability & Chief Economist
First Detection Of Heavy Methanol In Space
The north pole of Mars is less dusty than scientists thought
Physics-Grounded Materials AI for Reliable Materials Discovery
Disorder is key to tuning a high-temperature superconductor
Designing the future: A UQ researcher’s quest for new materials
NASA’s Roman Space Telescope will use gravity as a magnifying glass to find distant planets
When Rust Falls From Tree
Researchers use light to generate nanoscale magnetization
Cell biochemistry beyond membranes: The physics of condensates
Eight Aussie LGBTQIA+ scientists. Queer code-breaking math hero. Sex-ed on stage
See the Sun’s surface in higher detail than ever before in new telescope images
Tiny Vortices Discovered On Sun’s Surface
Researchers Use Electric Field to Reverse Phonon Chirality in Ferroelectric Crystal
How many packs of Pokémon cards do you have to buy to catch ’em all? Probably hundreds, and most will be quite boring
Most comprehensive census of the high-energy universe to date 
Achiral Crystal That Responds Differently To Light
Unveiling the ultrafast formation of a photoinduced hidden state in metal-organic frameworks
Antarctica storms becoming more frequent and intense
How Meteorologists Forecast Weather
Understanding Textile Structures by Studying Defect Propagation
A new route to electrically controlled helimagnetic structures
The ball is round – and contrary to some keepers’ views, in this World Cup it has performed just fine
2026 ASUNARO Grant Awarded To Six Researchers
Yudai Yamazaki wins top prize (Mirai 60 Award) at inaugural IEICE Mirai 60 Award Challenge Contest
Could this asteroid be a piece of the Moon? A Chinese spacecraft is about to find out
AI and Physics Draw a Blueprint for Better Hydrogen Storage Materials
A new quantum computer sets a high watermark for accuracy – are we on the verge of a big breakthrough?
University of Manchester researcher secures ERC Advanced Grant for atomic-scale nanotechnology
Expert Commentary: El Niño
Reversible switching of chirality in semiconductor material using electrochemistry
Revealing Optical Activity In Achiral Crystals
Nanometer Nanotubes For Future Electronics
Violent rocket particles could reshape future spacecraft design
Researchers make moiré 2D materials without stacking, twisting
Mysterious signals keep coming from space. We have found their ‘Rosetta stone’
Heat Lingers On In Our Cells
Study of coral surface behaviour offers new tools to understand the physics underlying infertility and ovarian cancer
Robotic ‘matter’ flows, adapts through mechanical intelligence
Minns Labor Government expands advanced and extension HSC subject access for every NSW public high school
HKUST Scholar Receives 2026 Croucher Innovation Award
Venus’ Atmosphere Jumps And Waves
New understanding of insect flight points way to stable flapping-wing robots
Physicists have measured ‘negative time’ in the lab