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May 17, 2024

A technological revolution is coming: will we be ready?

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Health diagnostic devices based on our breath, drones that detect when fruit is ripe, and an alternative to GPS - find out what real-world impact our researchers think our COMBS Centre of Excellence could have in the next seven years.
May 16, 2024

International Day of Light: What could life be like in the year 2031?

Four days, 75 attendees, and more than 50 presentations – our inaugural COMBS 2024 Workshop last week spanned topics as diverse as astronomy, fundamental physics, earthquake monitoring, medical diagnostic tools, and internet infrastructure.
April 19, 2024

Inaugural COMBS Workshop at Cape Schanck

From using our fibre networks to monitor earthquakes, making optical fibres in space, and using laser light to detect diseases from our breath before there are any symptoms – this International Women’s Day we are celebrating the terrific researchers in our Centre of Excellence.
March 8, 2024

Celebrating our women at COMBS

Our collaborative research Centre of Excellence will develop ultra-precise measuring devices that could enable high-speed internet, better medical screening technologies and carbon emissions monitoring.
November 4, 2022

New research centre to bring world’s best measuring device out of the lab