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Building an ecosystem – and ensuring women are a key part of it

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When you’re trying to fix something, you want to make sure you’ve got the right tool for the job - and that’s exactly what our astronomers and technologists set out to do at the Keck Observatory in Hawaii.
February 20, 2026

The inaugural COMBS Awards

When you’re trying to fix something, you want to make sure you’ve got the right tool for the job - and that’s exactly what our astronomers and technologists set out to do at the Keck Observatory in Hawaii.
February 20, 2026

2026 COMBS Annual Workshop wrap-up

When you’re trying to fix something, you want to make sure you’ve got the right tool for the job - and that’s exactly what our astronomers and technologists set out to do at the Keck Observatory in Hawaii.
January 16, 2026

Sundials, egg timers, or the stopwatch on your phone – what’s the most accurate way to measure a second?

When you’re trying to fix something, you want to make sure you’ve got the right tool for the job - and that’s exactly what our astronomers and technologists set out to do at the Keck Observatory in Hawaii.
July 9, 2025

Altitude sickness and bumpy roads – designing a robust measurement tool to enable the search for Earth-like planets

An artificial crystal called lithium niobate has had a resurgence in popularity due to its ability to move light around on a microchip – and our researchers have recently joined their fellow world leaders in the field.
May 14, 2025

The material that gets everything on the same wavelength

Our web traffic is growing exponentially by 25% every year, and published today in Nature Photonics, our COMBS researchers have shown that microcomb technology could help our data centres to keep up with demand.
May 7, 2025

Light-powered chip technology to help data centres keep up with demand

Imagine standing in your kitchen at home, feeling a little off colour. You grab a handheld device from the medicine cabinet and breathe into it, looking for an instant diagnosis of whatever you’re coming down with. With our combs technology, this may one day become a reality.
April 14, 2025

Cosmos article: ‘Combing your breath’: next step in medical diagnostics is closer

For some time now, no single application has needed light-filled chips enough to justify the massive investment to make them an industrial reality. Until now.
May 17, 2024

A technological revolution is coming: will we be ready?

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