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A display of science themed cakes from above.
A display of science themed cakes from above.

Can you have your doctorate and eat it too?

Our Earth science students represent their research in cake form.

Bake Your PhD
Composite image of 13 researchers. Text above reads 80 years of science and medicine at ANU. Circular logo reads: 1946. Celebrating eighty years of ANU
Composite image of 13 researchers. Text above reads 80 years of science and medicine at ANU. Circular logo reads: 1946. Celebrating eighty years of ANU
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Professor Michael Smithson is inside a library reading a book titled The Psychology of Ignorance
Professor Michael Smithson is inside a library reading a book titled The Psychology of Ignorance

The psychology of ignorance

Should we stop viewing ignorance only as a problem? Emeritus Professor Michael Smithson says it's time to rethink what we think we know about ignorance.

Read why ignorance can sometimes be bliss

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Dr Nicole Vargas is standing outside the Florey building at ANU

When the body can't cool down: What are the risks of extreme heat?

Headlines about how Europe’s brutally hot summer has resulted in thousands of deaths have probably got your attention lately. But do you know why extreme heat is so dangerous?

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Four students from the Research School of Earth Sciences pose with their cakes.
Wed, 26 Aug 2026

Bake your PhD: Can you have your doctorate and eat it too?

Students in the Research School of Earth Sciences took their science into the kitchen for this year’s Bake Your PhD competition.

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Eastern spinebill, small bird with long beak perched upside down from twig
Tue, 25 Aug 2026

From the coasts to the plains, bird flu could threaten not just birds – but their homes

From raucous honeyeaters to top predators, Australia’s birds are vital to nature.

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This illustration shows a stage in the predicted merger between our Milky Way galaxy and the neighboring Andromeda galaxy, as it will unfold over the next several billion years.
Fri, 21 Aug 2026

Galactic archaeologists find stars in the Milky Way came from another galaxy 12 billion years ago

The Milky Way contains a fossil record of galaxies it has absorbed.

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