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Nhung Nghiem and Mark Polizzotto are seated in an office and talking to each other..

ANU researcher wins NHMRC award for global cancer trial

Professor Mark Polizzotto has won an NHMRC award for his global study testing whether a daily tablet could replace chemotherapy for a cancer that kills up to half its patients in Africa.

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Physicists in lab wearing PPE
Wednesday, 02 Apr 2025
  • News

A random conversation between physicists from different areas has led to a new ultrasensitive device to search for dark matter.

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Woman holds trophy
Tuesday, 01 Apr 2025
  • News

ANU graduate and 2025 Alumni Award winner Hannah Wood is taking a culturally sensitive approach to medicine.

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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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