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Dog and woman

Meet Koda, a very good girl who is sniffing out technology to advance ecology

This frisbee-obsessed, four-legged ecologist has a special role to play in her owner's PhD research.

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Dog and woman
Thursday, 12 Sep 2024
  • Research story

This frisbee-obsessed, four-legged ecologist has a special role to play in her owner's PhD research.

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Headshot of a woman
Thursday, 12 Sep 2024
  • News

Cities and businesses have the power to play a crucial role and become the “stewards” of critical Earth systems by demonstrating how they can reduce their environmental impact on the planet, scientists say in a new report.

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island
Friday, 06 Sep 2024
  • News

Islands drive language change and generate language diversity in similar ways to how they drive species diversity, according to new research from ANU that analysed languages from over 13,000 inhabited islands.

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Headshot of a man
Tuesday, 03 Sep 2024
  • News

A doughnut-shaped region thousands of kilometres beneath our feet within Earth’s liquid core has been discovered by ANU scientists, providing new clues about the dynamics of our planet’s magnetic field.

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Headshot of a woman
Thursday, 29 Aug 2024
  • Academic profile

Climate scientist Dr Georgy Falster is demystifying what it's like to study and work in science, one letter at a time.

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Water flowing creek
Tuesday, 27 Aug 2024
  • Analysis and opinion

What types of chemicals are actually considered “forever chemicals”? And how should we deal with the escalating threat they pose?

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Aerial ANU photo
Tuesday, 27 Aug 2024
  • News

Researchers from ANU received a total funding of $8 million across 17 projects in the latest round of the Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) scheme.

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Stargazing at Parliament House
Monday, 26 Aug 2024
  • Student profile

ANU PhD scholar Peter Swanton is using Indigenous knowledge of our night skies to unlock the secrets of our universe, and inspiring young people along the way.

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Beetles
Friday, 23 Aug 2024
  • News

Despite thriving in diverse environments for hundreds of millions of years, little was known about the darkling beetles evolution. Scientists at ANU and CSIRO have uncovered the truth.

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