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The unexpected poetry of PhD acknowledgements
After reading hundreds and hundreds of PhD theses, we accidentally discovered how to write the perfect PhD acknowledgement: it's a kind of poetry.
Future weather and climate predictions have been given a major boost with the launch of a new national research facility worth $7.6 million.
Physicists at The Australian National University (ANU) have developed tiny translucent slides capable of producing two very different images depending on the direction in which light travels through them.
If you look at a map of the most water-stressed nations on Earth, India is coloured red, placing millions of people's lives and livelihoods in danger. But could advances in quantum physics actually be part of the solution?
The fastest-growing black hole of the last nine billion years has been discovered by an international team led by astronomers at The Australian National University (ANU).
The humble wildlife nest box has been given a hi-tech overhaul to help greater gliders severely impacted by Australia's bushfire disaster recover.
Bacillary dysentery kills millions each year - and researcher Tanuka Sen's quest to understand it has taken her all over the world.
Major change is needed to counteract the lack of gender equality in marine science, according to new research.
To measure the speed of adaptive evolution in the wild, we studied 19 populations of birds and mammals over several decades. We found they were evolving at twice to four times the speed suggested by earlier work.
The raw material for evolution is much more abundant in wild animals than we previously believed, according to new research.