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The unexpected poetry of PhD acknowledgements

The unexpected poetry of PhD acknowledgements

After reading hundreds and hundreds of PhD theses, we accidentally discovered how to write the perfect PhD acknowledgement: it's a kind of poetry.

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AI-generated image of eukaryotes
Thursday, 08 Jun 2023
  • News

The discovery of a “lost world” of ancient organisms that lived in Earth’s waterways at least 1.6 billion years ago could change our understanding of our earliest ancestors.

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Stars and people
Wednesday, 07 Jun 2023
  • Analysis and opinion

The Indigenous science and stories behind Mulligans Flat.

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Koala clings to tree
Monday, 05 Jun 2023
  • Analysis and opinion

Now begins a long and difficult process to recover vast areas of forest after more than 50 years of clearfelling and other destructive logging practices. It’s a huge job, but it can be done. Here's an outline of what’s needed.

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Two wolves in snow
Monday, 05 Jun 2023
  • Research story

Pele Cannon lived with wolves in Colorado: here’s what she learned.

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Boardwalk in grass
Thursday, 01 Jun 2023
  • Analysis and opinion

This is the first time an assessment of boundaries has quantified the harms to people from changes to the Earth system.

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Man holding bone plates
Thursday, 01 Jun 2023
  • News

A customised bone plate was implanted into a patient after a collaboration between ANU, Canberra Hospital and the M3D ARC training centre, helping to heal a decades-old injury to the patient’s thigh bone.

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LIGO control room
Thursday, 25 May 2023
  • News

A new facility at ANU will help scientists detect some of the most extreme events in the universe and put Australia "front and centre" of the exciting field of gravitational wave science.

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Two scientists using equipment
Thursday, 25 May 2023
  • News

A first-of-its-kind experiment led by ANU researchers could help make sure communities around the world are better prepared to deal with earthquakes.

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Bees in a hive
Wednesday, 24 May 2023
  • Analysis and opinion

While Australia is the last continent to be invaded by the vorroa mite, it has an opportunity to be the first to eradicate it.

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