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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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Friday, 10 Feb 2023
  • News

Just half a per cent of the available tree hollows in Canberra’s woodlands are suitable nests for superb parrots.

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Friday, 10 Feb 2023
  • News

This International Day of Women and Girls and Science we are looking back at stories that highlight the achievements of women in science and some of the barriers they face.

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Thursday, 09 Feb 2023
  • News

Areas set aside by the Victorian Government as part of plan to conserve 35 threatened species fall well short in their goal to stop the extinction of the state’s most at-risk wildlife, according to a study by ANU researchers.

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Kangaroo with joey in burnt forest
Monday, 06 Feb 2023
  • Analysis and opinion

The Black Summer bushfires of 2019-20 were cataclysmic: a landmark in Australia’s environmental history. We must use Black Summer as an opportunity to learn – and make fundamental changes. Here are six lessons to heed.

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Friday, 03 Feb 2023
  • Analysis and opinion

To find out why black holes twinkle, researchers piggy-backed on NASA’s asteroid defence effort to watch more than 5,000 of the fastest-growing black holes in the sky for five years.

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Tuesday, 31 Jan 2023
  • Research story

Go behind the mission to get a new mothball-fueled satellite thruster to space.

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Dolphin tail up in front of fisher in a bay
Tuesday, 31 Jan 2023
  • News

Dolphins and net-casting fishers in Brazil catch more fish by working together, a new study by an international team of researchers has shown.

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Tuesday, 31 Jan 2023
  • Analysis and opinion

The issue of AI authorship is now clearly on the minds of commercial academic publishers. Many have asked whether ChatGPT could be considered an academic author.

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Tuesday, 31 Jan 2023
  • News

ANU is mourning the loss of one of Australia's most influential and respected climate scientists, Emeritus Professor Will Steffen.

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