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The unexpected poetry of PhD acknowledgements

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.

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Illustration of a mouse
Monday, 11 Apr 2022
  • Analysis and opinion

Within half a century, Australia’s blue-grey mouse had seemingly disappeared, leaving behind only three scientific specimens. But is the mouse extinct, or just extremely hard to find?

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A woman in a white shirt standing in front of a creek and trees
Monday, 11 Apr 2022
  • Student blog

Tanya Javaid is an international student from Pakistan studying a Bachelor of Science (Advanced) (Honours) at ANU. We asked Tanya to tell us about her recent experience of completing an internship at CSIRO as part of her degree.

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Thursday, 07 Apr 2022
  • Media release

An ANU-backed start up that is turning the tide on the wave of plastic pollution flooding our planet has taken out a top prize in one of Australia’s major sustainability awards.

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Tuesday, 05 Apr 2022
  • Media release

The world has every chance to cut emissions deeply and Australia is critical to the global effort, say leading authors from The Australian National University (ANU) of the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) assessment report on climate change mitigation.

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University avenue through Kambri precinct with buildings and trees.
Tuesday, 05 Apr 2022
  • Analysis and opinion

The world has its best chance yet to reduce greenhouse gas emissions quickly, but hard and fast cuts are needed across all sectors and nations to hold warming to safe levels, the global authority on climate change says.

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Close up of hands with seedling
Tuesday, 05 Apr 2022
  • Analysis and opinion

Humanity still has time to arrest catastrophic global warming – and has the tools to do so quickly and cheaply, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has found.

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Saturday, 02 Apr 2022
  • Media release

Dr Ian Fry from The Australian National University (ANU) has become the world's first special rapporteur for human rights and climate change, in an appointment made by the United Nations overnight.

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Friday, 01 Apr 2022
  • Media release

Volcanic activity beneath the surface of Mars could be responsible for triggering repetitive marsquakes, which are similar to earthquakes, in a specific region of the Red Planet, researchers from The Australian National University (ANU) suggest.

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Two white mushrooms on leafy ground
Monday, 28 Mar 2022
  • Research story

Death cap mushrooms don’t actually want to kill us. In fact, mushrooms don’t care about us at all. 

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