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How do climate experts feel about the future? We asked them

While it’s already too late to repair some of the damage caused by climate change, ANU researchers still believe in a sustainable future.

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Monday, 20 May 2024
  • News

A new AI tool to more quickly and accurately classify brain tumours has been developed by ANU researchers.

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Cultural burning
Friday, 17 May 2024
  • Impact story (giving)
  • Research story

ANU ecologists and a cohort of New South Wales Local Aboriginal Land Councils are joining together on a project to re-introduce cultural burning in box-gum grassy woodlands and to monitor the environmental outcomes of the burns.

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Thursday, 16 May 2024
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The discovery of a new critical enzyme could help engineer climate resilient crops capable of sucking far more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere in a much more efficient way.

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Rainforest
Friday, 26 Apr 2024
  • Analysis and opinion

What does the evidence say about what tall, wet forests actually looked like 250 years ago? The answer matters because it influences how these forests are managed.

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Monday, 22 Apr 2024
  • News

Dubbed "CSI, but for parrots", Dr George Olah is creating a forensic genomic toolkit which will help authorities to track the routes of illegally traded birds poached from the wild in Indonesia.

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Thursday, 11 Apr 2024
  • News

A new breath-testing device, developed at ANU, could supersede the finger-prick that is a daily burden for people with diabetes, who need to monitor their blood glucose.

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Wednesday, 10 Apr 2024
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Mathematician Emeritus Robert (Bob) Leith Dewar FAA FAPS FAIP was a giant in the field of theoretical plasma physics.

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Friday, 05 Apr 2024
  • Research story

There's a growing movement to decolonise mathematics. Professor Rowena Ball explains what this means and why it is important.

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Thursday, 04 Apr 2024
  • News

Researchers from ANU have made a discovery about a little understood protein in the human body that could help treat diseases that cause seizures, including epilepsy.

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