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Physicist holds tiny glass cell

Dancing with ghosts to banish magnetic noise

Physicists have devised a way to combine an atomic magnetometer with a gyroscope, using a pulsed laser system and a simple mixture of gases.

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Associate Professor Tamás Fischer inside a research laboratory
Monday, 31 Mar 2025
  • Research story

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

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Headshot of a woman
Friday, 28 Mar 2025
  • News

Author, TV presenter and ANU graduate Lee Constable is sharing her passion for science with the next generation.

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Impression of hot purple and orange gas surrounding a supermassive black hole in space.
Thursday, 27 Mar 2025
  • News

Scientists have detected radio signals from hot gas surrounding a supermassive black hole that existed 12.9 billion years ago, according to new research from an international team of scientists.

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person in a chemstry lab using a solvent recycler
Friday, 21 Mar 2025
  • News

Two new solvent recycler machines, dubbed Molly and Wolly, will save approximately 25 tonnes of carbon dioxide being released into the atmosphere each year from our chemistry labs.

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Foraminifera
Wednesday, 19 Mar 2025
  • Analysis and opinion

A new study reveals how much CO₂ was released to the atmosphere from the polar Southern Ocean in a period of rapid global warming between 18,000 and 11,000 years ago – and what factors were responsible.

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A rock with a fish fossil held in the palm of a hand
Tuesday, 18 Mar 2025
  • News

A new species of fish that lived in Australian freshwater lakes and rivers about 15 million years ago has been named after the researcher from The Australian National University (ANU) who played a key role in its discovery.

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Water cycle and a deep ocean crust sample
Tuesday, 18 Mar 2025
  • News

As Dr Dominik Koll was investigating a new method of radio-dating ancient samples, he stumbled across evidence of a major event in the Earth’s history, around ten million years ago.

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Woman in a lab coat using pippette
Monday, 17 Mar 2025
  • News

Biological science is changing the way that we harness and manage renewable energy, according to a new study by ANU researchers.

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Woman with a phone
Friday, 14 Mar 2025
  • Analysis and opinion

Online mental health programs can be more innovative and less expensive than other types of therapy. But do they actually work?

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