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Scientist and physicist Ernest Rutherford, known as “the father of nuclear physics”, was the most respected Kiwi of his day.

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From cryogenics to lasers, vacuum chambers to superconductors, some of the most advanced research equipment available is ...

Encouraged early on by Nobel laureate Enrico Fermi, the “Queen of Carbon” laid the foundation for countless advances in ...

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On October 18, 2025, the 4-metre Multi-Object Spectroscopic Telescope (4MOST) facility, installed on the VISTA telescope at ...

We follow the bone upward as it tumbles against the unpolluted blue sky. Then, suddenly, we cut to outer space, millions of ...

October welcomed a major milestone in a global telescope collaboration involving astronomers from our Department of Physics. The 4MOST telescope ...