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Science by the letter: conversations with the next generation of scientists

Climate scientist Dr Georgy Falster is demystifying what it's like to study and work in science, one letter at a time.

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Statue of justice
Friday, 16 Jun 2023
  • Analysis and opinion

When science evolves, we need better mechanisms for reviewing the legal decisions based on that science.

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Red and gren apples
Thursday, 15 Jun 2023
  • News

Professor Yong-Ling Ruan and his colleagues have made a breakthrough that could yield tastier and healthier fruit.

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Professor Susan Scott
Tuesday, 13 Jun 2023
  • News

Two national teaching programs will "revolutionise" science education in Australian schools and generate the next generation of Aussie Einsteins, quantum gurus, and our future science and technology workforce.

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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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