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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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Professor Barry Pogson is in agricultural field with rows of seedlings.
Thursday, 22 Jul 2021
  • News

A new research centre based at ANU will train the next generation of scientists to develop more resilient crops and significantly grow Australia's agricultural sector.

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Artist impression of spacecraft with thrusters moving towards Mars with Milky Way stars in background.
Tuesday, 20 Jul 2021
  • News

Faster space manoeuvres and safer, more sustainable, propellants may soon be possible thanks to a new three-year partnership between The Australian National University and French propulsion company ThrustMe.

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ANU Medical School
Wednesday, 14 Jul 2021
  • News

Associate Professor Rosemary Korda and a multi-disciplinary research team from ANU to investigate the benefits of telehealth in the primary health care setting.

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Milky Way spiral galaxy showing a ‘halo’ made up of hot gases.
Tuesday, 13 Jul 2021
  • Analysis and opinion

Until recently it was thought neutron star mergers were the only way heavy elements (heavier than Zinc) could be produced. These mergers involve the mashup of the remnants of two massive stars in a binary system.

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Tuesday, 13 Jul 2021
  • Media release

A mega diamond of a staggering 1,174 carats was recently recovered from the Karowe mine in Botswana, making it one of the largest natural diamonds ever recovered.

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Tuesday, 13 Jul 2021
  • Research story

Let’s say a new irrigation scheme is proposed and all the land it’ll take up needs to be cleared — trees felled, soil upturned, and habitats destroyed. Water will also have to be allocated. Would the economic gain of the scheme outweigh the damage to the environment?

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Boardwalk path
Monday, 12 Jul 2021
  • News

A 50-year-old treaty could hold the key to better protecting our wetland ecosystems, while offering scientists a "how-to guide" for turning their research into action, according to an expert from The Australian National University (ANU).

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Phone in person's hand depicting holographic projections.
Monday, 12 Jul 2021
  • News

Research students from The Australian National University (ANU) and the Friedrich Schiller University (FSU) in Germany will collaborate to invent technology that could make smartphones thinner, lighter and able to produce holograms.

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Professor Yun Liu, Professor Sharon Friel and Professor Naomi McClure-Griffiths.
Thursday, 08 Jul 2021

Galaxies, building health equity and “crystal chemistry” is the focus of three major research projects at The Australian National University (ANU) receiving more than $9.7 million in Government funding.

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