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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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Spotted Pardalote by Patrick Kavanagh
Monday, 16 Mar 2020
  • News

A bird study led by ANU provides new understanding of the ways birds and mammals respond to a rapidly warming world.

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Researchers collecting coral core samples.
Thursday, 12 Mar 2020
  • News

The Indian Ocean's surface temperatures are changing, putting southeast Australia on course for increasingly hot and dry conditions.

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University building.
Tuesday, 10 Mar 2020
  • Analysis and opinion

After the bushfires, donations flooded in for our iconic mammals. But there’s a risk the government and public responses will not see the fish for the koalas.

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Tuesday, 10 Mar 2020
  • Research story

Climate drivers, such as the Indian Ocean Dipole, are an entirely natural phenomenon, but climate change is modifying the behaviour of these climate modes.

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Friday, 06 Mar 2020
  • News

When amphibians call – our researchers answer! An interdisciplinary team of academics from across Canberra have created a device called the FrogPhone.

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Friday, 06 Mar 2020
  • Research story

If you look at the list of ANU College of Science and Medicine research projects receiving funding in the 2020 round of ARC Discovery Grants, something stands out.

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Wednesday, 04 Mar 2020
  • News

ANU will lead the development of the first Australian satellite designed to predict bushfires and their behaviour.

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Wednesday, 04 Mar 2020
  • Student profile

While our students are busy becoming scientists, they also make time for their hobbies. In Jacob Brown’s case, this means floating through clouds.

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Kambri university precinct at night with lights.
Tuesday, 03 Mar 2020
  • Analysis and opinion

New South Wales’ Forestry Corporation will this week start “selective timber harvesting” from two state forests ravaged by bushfire on the state’s south coast.

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