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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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Friday, 15 Sep 2017
  • News

ANU astronomers have bid farewell to the spacecraft Cassini, which will crash into Saturn just before 10pm tonight (AEST).

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Tuesday, 12 Sep 2017
  • Research story

Scientists at ANU have found a new way to store quantum data long enough to share the information around a next-generation internet, impervious to hacking.

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Imogen Mitchell
Monday, 11 Sep 2017
  • News

Meet our heroes of medicine. These doctors from the ANU Medical School save lives between lectures and are inspiring the next generation of medical professions.

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Friday, 08 Sep 2017
  • Research story

A new study led by The Australian National University (ANU) has found that animals and plants may live in warm caves under Antarctica’s glaciers.

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Thursday, 07 Sep 2017

ANU Research School of Biology PhD student Erin Andrew has been crowned the winner of the ANU 3MT.

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Brianna Woodhead
Wednesday, 06 Sep 2017
  • Student profile

When the time came for Brianna to leave her hometown and start university in a big city, finding a new sense of community was high on her radar.

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Monday, 04 Sep 2017
  • Academic profile

ANU Associate Professor Malcolm McLeod is creating new chemical methods for detecting doping, leading to a clean-up in the greyhound industry of steroid abuse.

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Thursday, 31 Aug 2017
  • Career story

Meet Dr Kai Chan, the 2017 ACT Young Scientist of the Year

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Wednesday, 30 Aug 2017
  • Career story

Elite athlete? Actor? Astronaut? It’s pretty rare to find someone actually living their childhood dream. Cue: Nate Byrne, ABC Breakfast News weather presenter.

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