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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, 07 Mar 2016
  • News

A culture that is overtly anti-sexist can still implicitly associate science with masculinism, according to CPAS academic Lindy Orthia and anthropologist Rachel Morgain.

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Monday, 07 Mar 2016
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Scientists developing fusion energy experiments have solved a puzzle of why their million-degree heating beams sometimes fail, and instead destabilise the fusion experiments before energy is generated.

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Portrait of Karina Tuveng, Earth Science student
Monday, 07 Mar 2016
  • Student profile

“For my research project, I’m part of a team looking at climate change that took place 40 to 50 million years ago, when the Earth transitioned from ‘greenhouse’ to ‘icehouse’.

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Saturday, 05 Mar 2016
  • Academic profile

Professor Gordon Lister is a tectonicist and structural geologist. In other words, a rock-whisperer.

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Saturday, 05 Mar 2016
  • Career story

Imagine having a smash-hit YouTube channel with millions of viewers who tune in to watch you talk about your passion.

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Friday, 04 Mar 2016
  • Research story

Ecologists have found that Murray crayfish numbers plunged 90 per cent in a high country river after their habitat was lost.

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Thursday, 03 Mar 2016
  • Research story

Scientists have harnessed static electricity to control chemical reactions for the first time, in a breakthrough that could bring cleaner industry and cheaper nanotechnology.

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Wednesday, 02 Mar 2016
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Researchers at The Australian National University (ANU) are helping the eastern quoll make a comeback to mainland Australia after its disappearance more than 50 years ago.

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Saturday, 27 Feb 2016
  • Research story

A fellowship program at ANU has brought researchers together from diverse fields to collaborate and learn from each other.

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