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Associate Professor Elizabeth Williams inside a nuclear physics laboratory

This physicist wants every Australian to know that nuclear matters

As Australia expands its ambitions in nuclear technologies, Associate Professor Elizabeth Williams says the country is grappling with a question that doesn’t have a simple answer.

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Tuesday, 08 Dec 2015
  • Career story

Joe Duggan didn’t just study a Master of Science Communication Outreach, it’s like he actually is the master.

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Mathematics PhD student, Joseph Chien
Tuesday, 08 Dec 2015
  • Student profile

Working hard or hardly working? This is the question Joseph Chien hopes to answer when he starts his PhD with the ANU Mathematical Sciences Institute next year.

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Tuesday, 08 Dec 2015
  • News

Dr Colin Jackson from the ANU Research School of Chemistry won the RACI 2015 Rennie Memorial Medal for his chemical science research. His work focus is chemical biology, creating new molecules to treat tuberculosis, counteract agricultural poisoning, and assist green manufacturing.

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Monday, 07 Dec 2015

Distinguished physics Professor Chennupati Jagadish and his wife Vidya have kickstarted a new endowment fund to bring science students and academics from the developing world to study and do research at The Australian National University (ANU).

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Friday, 04 Dec 2015
  • News

Associate Professor Kirk urged Australians to take care when preparing food.

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Thursday, 03 Dec 2015
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A remarkably detailed animation of the movement of the densest and coldest water in the world around Antarctica has been produced using data generated on Australia’s most powerful supercomputer, Raijin.

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Wednesday, 02 Dec 2015
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An ANU-led study identified a network of nine genes that alter the onset of hereditary Alzheimer's by up to 17 years. Studying a 5,000-member Colombian family, researchers hope targeting these genes can delay the disease globally.

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PhD student, Donna Belder
Monday, 30 Nov 2015
  • Student profile

Besides being lovely to have around, birds fulfil critical roles in ecosystems, so I see their ongoing decline in Australia and elsewhere as a matter of utmost concern.

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Friday, 27 Nov 2015
  • News

A high-technology company started by physicists from ANU, QuintessenceLabs wins a prestigious global SINET award for its unbreakable, cutting-edge quantum cyber-security technology.

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