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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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Monday, 24 Jun 2019
  • News

A device that filters mercury from contaminated water designed by students at The ANU has achieved excellent trial results and is en route to Indonesia.

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Monday, 24 Jun 2019
  • Student blog

Six STEM students from the ANU share their passions within and outside the realm of science.

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Wednesday, 19 Jun 2019
  • Analysis and opinion

In an ideal world, people would look at issues with a clear focus only on the facts. But in the real world, we know that doesn’t happen often.

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Wednesday, 19 Jun 2019
  • News

As nominations come to a close for the 2019 ACT Scientist of the Year award, we turned to the 2018 winner for her words of wisdom.

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Friday, 14 Jun 2019
  • News

Research was (literally) served, as students of the ANU RSES had a scientific bake-off for the 2019 Bake your PhD competition.

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Thursday, 13 Jun 2019
  • Research story

ANU scientists are working with space technology to predict droughts months in advance.

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Thursday, 13 Jun 2019
  • Research story

A researcher has made a remarkable discovery about a group of lizards living in the Andes. Jess Fagan reports.

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Thursday, 13 Jun 2019
  • Student profile

PhD scholar Ilya Bobrovskiy has already revealed the earliest known animal, but you can expect some more big discoveries from this young scientist.

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Thursday, 13 Jun 2019
  • Career story

The best known research of Dr Vanessa Pirotta, BSc ’10, is the use of drones to collect whale snot for an assessment of whale health.

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