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Woman by a microscope

Physicists have pioneered a new method for making a rare form of silicon, prized for its remarkable properties. It's work that took ten years to come to fruition.

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Nhung Nghiem and Mark Polizzotto are seated in an office and talking to each other..

ANU researchers and global partners are launching a clinical trial to improve treatment for Kaposi sarcoma, one of the most common and deadly cancers in sub-Saharan Africa.

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Associate Professor Tamás Fischer inside a research laboratory

Could tiny ‘molecular robots’ made from RNA provide personalised cancer treatments – without the harmful side effects?

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Video thumbnail with text reading: Road to space: The Bogong Thruster

Go behind the mission to get a new mothball-fueled satellite thruster to space.

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Three men looking at laser physics equipment inside a laboratory with sound proofing.

If you look at a  map of the most water-stressed  nations on Earth, India is coloured red, placing millions of people's lives and livelihoods in danger. But could advances in quantum physics actually be part of the solution?

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Dr Ana Casas Ramos outside in front of a tree and small garden.

When a volcanic rock split in two in Japan recently, what happened? Mythologically & geologically speaking.

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