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Developing fuel moisture sensing satellites for fire management with Indigenous knowledge

In this collaborative project, researchers are working to develop future satellites for fire management by using traditional Indigenous knowledge and collaborating on remote sensing technology to help manage wildfires.

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Woman in a lab
Thursday, 18 Jan 2024
  • Research story

This ANU researcher isn’t afraid of shaking things up — making her own volcanic eruptions to better understand how they cause our climate to change.

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Man holds a spider in a clear box
Tuesday, 16 Jan 2024
  • Research story

“We just need to educate people and build awareness of spiders, to show that they’re not actually the bad guys we want them to be.”

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Wheat crop
Tuesday, 16 Jan 2024
  • Analysis and opinion

Rising global temperatures are putting pressure on our food supply, but ANU plant scientists are working hard to breed crops that can thrive in the changing climate.

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Man in a lab
Monday, 15 Jan 2024
  • News

Three new recreational drugs that have never been reported in Australia before have been identified by chemists at Australia’s only fixed-site drug checking service, CanTEST, located in Canberra.

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Headshot of a woman outside nuclear physics building
Monday, 15 Jan 2024
  • News

Physicists measured nuclei bouncing off one another, without sufficient energy to overcome the electrostatic repulsion between the two positively charged nuclei, and found that after the collision, the nuclei had turned into different elements.

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A burnt landscape
Thursday, 11 Jan 2024
  • News

Record heat across the world profoundly impacted the global water cycle in 2023, contributing to severe storms, floods, megadroughts and bushfires, new research from The Australian National University (ANU) shows.

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Alysia Robertson, pictured sitting on a wall with a green garden behind her, has won an award for her research on group therapy leadership.
Thursday, 11 Jan 2024
  • Research story

People are keen to go to therapy but it can be really difficult to get them in the door. Alysia Robertson wants to make it easier.

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Associate Professor Simon Jiang in his lab at the John Curtin School of Medical Research at ANU.
Wednesday, 10 Jan 2024
  • News
  • Research story

The benefits of personalised medicine programs extend far beyond the individual patient.

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Dark sky stars
Tuesday, 09 Jan 2024
  • Analysis and opinion

What is the universe made of? This question has driven astronomers for hundreds of years.

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