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Dr Saul Newman has uncovered the “secret” to living to 110

It turns out minestrone soup isn't the answer to a long life. 

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A bowl of soup, with numbers floating in the soup. There is also a spoon with a whole in it, the soup is spilling out from the hole with the number 100+.

Following a Blue Zone lifestyle is purported to help extend your lifespan. But do the numbers add up?

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This repository shows a sample of science, health and medicine research at ANU. Visit our research school websites for more detail.

hydro power plant
Fri, 25 Oct 2024

Pumped hydro and batteries can easily provide all the storage needed for 100% renewable electricity generation, eliminating the need for polluting gas power plants.

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cake
Thu, 24 Oct 2024

What happens when research rolls into the kitchen? These PhD students will tell you that you can have your cake and eat it too.

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Thu, 24 Oct 2024

A new approach to creating materials that interact selectively with different twists in light greatly simplifies their fabrication, and could pave the way for advances in biosensing, photochemistry, and quantum optics.

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marine megafauna
Tue, Oct 29 2024, 4:30pm

I will present the MegaMove project resulting from a unique transdisciplinary collaboration between 378 biologists, ecologists, physicists, oceanographers and modelers , as a pathway to answer this topical question with a focus on marine megafauna. Presented by Dr Ana Sequeira

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loneliness
Wed, Oct 30 2024, 4:30pm

Loneliness is one of the strongest predictors of poor health.
Presented by Professor Tegan Cruwys

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RNA
Thu, Oct 31 2024, 4:30pm

We have previously developed the EvoFam computational pipeline [1,2] for detecting paralogous families of structured cis-regulatory regions transcriptome-wide in mammals, using mutational information across deep vertebrate alignments. Presented by Dr Brian Parker

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