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Heavy Ion Accelerator Facility

Crompton Award helps student research the nearly-magic

PhD Student Aditya Babu wants to revisit one of the earliest puzzles of nuclear physics: why are some nuclei more stable than others?

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Great Sandy Desert
Friday, 11 Oct 2024
  • Analysis and opinion

Since colonisation cultural burning in the Great Sandy Desert ended. Now the work of caring for desert country (pirra) with fire (jungku, or warlu) has begun again.

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podcast
Thursday, 10 Oct 2024
  • Analysis and opinion

Everybody wants to start a podcast these days – even AI. What does this mean for the future of science communication?

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Two woman hold pretzels and donuts
Thursday, 10 Oct 2024
  • News

A new way of comparing shapes will enable scientists to analyse data in more flexible and powerful ways.

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Headshot of a man
Wednesday, 09 Oct 2024
  • News

After fleeing Ukraine, Dr Andrey Iljin has found a haven for idea generation at ANU.

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The Joker
Thursday, 03 Oct 2024
  • Analysis and opinion

What can we learn from the Joker character about our cultural fascination with duplication and disintegration?

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headshot of a man in a lab
Thursday, 03 Oct 2024
  • News

Forge Photonics, a start up company using gravitational wave detection technology has launched, setting its sights on the $A120 billion global market for autonomous vehicle navigation systems.

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Pluto and one of its moons
Wednesday, 02 Oct 2024
  • Analysis and opinion

Much mystery still surrounds Pluto and its moons. But in new research published in Nature Communications researchers announced they’ve found carbon dioxide and hydrogen peroxide on the surface of Pluto's largest moon, Charon.

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Two scientists in a computer lab
Tuesday, 01 Oct 2024
  • News

The Hunga Tonga underwater volcano was one of the largest volcanic eruptions in history, and now, two years later, new research from ANU has revealed its main trigger.

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Peopl in a lab
Monday, 30 Sep 2024
  • News

Scientists have created lasers from perfect crystals one hundredth of the diameter of a human hair.

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