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Teeth record the hidden history of your childhood climate and diet

New research shows that teeth contain a week-by-week climatic history of their owner’s childhood.

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Headshot of a woman outside nuclear physics building
Monday, 15 Jan 2024
  • News

Physicists measured nuclei bouncing off one another, without sufficient energy to overcome the electrostatic repulsion between the two positively charged nuclei, and found that after the collision, the nuclei had turned into different elements.

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Alysia Robertson, pictured sitting on a wall with a green garden behind her, has won an award for her research on group therapy leadership.
Thursday, 11 Jan 2024
  • Research story

People are keen to go to therapy but it can be really difficult to get them in the door. Alysia Robertson wants to make it easier.

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A burnt landscape
Thursday, 11 Jan 2024
  • News

Record heat across the world profoundly impacted the global water cycle in 2023, contributing to severe storms, floods, megadroughts and bushfires, new research from The Australian National University (ANU) shows.

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Associate Professor Simon Jiang in his lab at the John Curtin School of Medical Research at ANU.
Wednesday, 10 Jan 2024
  • News
  • Research story

The benefits of personalised medicine programs extend far beyond the individual patient.

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Dark sky stars
Tuesday, 09 Jan 2024
  • Analysis and opinion

What is the universe made of? This question has driven astronomers for hundreds of years.

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Representation of nanoflower
Tuesday, 02 Jan 2024
  • News

In the search for optimum hydrogen production researchers have found decorating their electrodes with tiny metal flowers boosts the process significantly.

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ANU graduate and melanoma researcher Phoebe Doohan in her lab at JCSMR, the ANU College of Health & Medicine at ANU in Canberra.
Tuesday, 02 Jan 2024
  • News

The findings mean patients could respond better to immunotherapy treatment. 

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Astronomers detect seismic ripples in ancient galactic disk
Friday, 22 Dec 2023
  • News

A new snapshot of an ancient, far-off galaxy could help scientists understand how it formed and the origins of our own Milky Way.

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Two kids standing in front of a Christmas tree
Friday, 22 Dec 2023
  • News

Domestic and family violence spikes during the festive season. Dr Dave Pasalich from the ANU School of Medicine and Psychology says the whole community has a role to play in responding to this crisis.

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