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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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Man in a lab
Friday, 16 Aug 2024
  • News

Cholesterol is the key to tricking malaria parasites into ingesting a fatal dose of drugs and ridding patients of the potentially fatal disease, new ANU research has found.

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A woman with pink hair and holding a clipboard standing in some bushy grass
Tuesday, 13 Aug 2024
  • Student profile

Michelle Littlefair is a PhD student at the ANU Fenner School of Environment and Society researching frogs in agricultural landscapes. She is also a dancer who uses her performances to spread awareness about frog declines. We spoke to her about how frogs have become such a large part of her life.

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star cluster
Tuesday, 13 Aug 2024
  • Analysis and opinion

Astronomers observed the radiation of a dense star cluster and achieved a scientific first: measuring how quickly these particles change direction due to fluctuations in interstellar magnetic fields.

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Milky Way stars in the night sky.
Monday, 12 Aug 2024
  • Analysis and opinion

Light pollution is a relatively recent problem. So, what happened? And what can we do to help darkness reign supreme again?

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Forest
Monday, 12 Aug 2024
  • Analysis and opinion

Australia’s forestry industry raised eyebrows this month when it released plans to remove trees from native forests, potentially including national parks, and claim carbon credits in the process.

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Woman in a lab
Friday, 09 Aug 2024
  • Student blog

Moving across the world twice, thanks to pandemic travel limitations, Londoner Chloe Gomez is finally where she wants to be – back in the lab and driving real-world impact in plastic recycling.

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PhD candidate at the School of Medicine and Psychology, Yangxueqing (Mary) Jiang standing outside the Psychology building at the Australian National University
Friday, 09 Aug 2024
  • Analysis and opinion

Climate misinformation may be more effective than we’d like to think.

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Dr Michael Chapman at the Canberra Region Cancer Centre.
Thursday, 08 Aug 2024
  • News

It’s always better to start conversations around death when the stakes are lower.

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Rishika Prabhakaran
Tuesday, 06 Aug 2024
  • Student blog

Rishika, who is studying astronomy and astrophysics, takes us through her busy day on campus.

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