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• How will our sun die? - 22 April 2013

Orsola DeMarco and colleagues suggest our sun may not terminate as previously expected.

• Diamonds can mend a broken heart - 15 February 2013

Jana Say has been working on processing the raw diamonds so that they might be used as a tag for biological molecules.

• A Young Exoplanet Caught at Formation - 20 October 2011

Macquarie's Michael Ireland and collaborator Adam Kraus take a picture of a planet in the process of formation around a young star.

• Success in the MQ Research Awards - 13 October 2011

Jim Rabeau wins the "Excellence in Research - Science and Engineering" award

• Unconventional anyon behaviour - 17 August 2011

Researchers predict suprising new result.

• New planetary nebula discovered - 25 July 2011

Find out the role MQ AAA researchers played in the discovery.

• Diamonds aren't forever - 14 July 2011

Researchers discover than diamonds are evaporating all the time, even in sunlight.

• Australian Learning and Teaching Awards - 28 June 2011

Professor Quentin Parker recognised for his excellence in research-lead teaching.

• New Research Centre - 29 April 2011

Macquarie launches Astronomy, Astrophysics and Astrophotonics Research Centre.

• Supernova Impostor - 9 December 2010

Aboriginal astronomers observed and recorded a "supernova-impostor" event.

• Picture-perfect race for Italian PhD student - 1 November 2010

With the Sydney Harbour Bridge and the Opera House as the backdrop, the Sydney Half Marathon was a picture-perfect race for Italian Physics PhD candidate Carlo Bradac last month.

• Physics and Astronomy at the MQ Research Awards - 28 October 2010

Our researchers win four of the eight awards at the 2010 Macquarie University Research Awards.

• MQ Photonics publishes its first newsletter (pdf) - October 2010

Read about the Macquarie University research centre 'MQ Photonics', and find out the centre's goals and recent achievements

• GALD in New Inventors Grand Final (video) - 23 September 2010

Russell Connally's GALD invention in the Grand Final of ABC's 'New Inventors' 2010

• 'Phrame by Phrame Photonics' wins OSA award  - 26 July 2010

MQ Photonics wins the "Optics Visualized Contest 2010" award from the Optical Society of America

• Jim Rabeau on ABC's 'Ockham's Razor' (audio) - 18 July 2010

A/Prof Jim Rabeau takes a look at synthetic diamonds

• Enhancing fluorescence signals for Physics PhD - 12 July 2010

Wei Deng studies the applications of nanoparticles in bioassays and bioimaging

• GALD wins on ABC's New Inventors (video) - 8 July 2010

Russell Connally's GALD invention is winner and people's choice on New Inventors.

• As good as GALD - 27 April 2010

Learn how Russell Connally is developing a new microscope to aid in the detection of diseases and parasites.

• Diamond Lasers - 23 April 2010

Richard Mildren shows why diamonds hold the key to new laser discoveries.

• Super Science Fellowships - 14 April 2010

Young scientists to be recruited with early-career grants.

• Making a splash - 12 April 2010

Tiny diamond sparklers may hold the key to big advances in biomedical imaging technology.

• Strong performance in ERA - 10 December 2009

Excellence in Research for Australia: Macquarie's science results.

• Young Tall Poppy awards - 30 October 2009

New award to Dr James Rabeau, senior lecturer and ARC Fellow in the Department of Physics.

• Diamond research on ABC's Catalyst (video) - 19 March 2009

Hear Future Fellow James Rabeau on the ABC Catalyst program explain why his research on diamond could be the key to protect all your electronic data.

• New laser reseach (video) - January 2009

David Coutts and Michael Withford explain some of the current laser research in the MQ Photonics Research Centre at Macquarie University.

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