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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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Astronaut driving a vehicle on the Moon
Monday, 10 Jan 2022
  • Research story

Australia’s unique geography and world-leading expertise in robotics technology in harsh and remote climates make it an ideal candidate to put a rover on the moon.

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someone folding clothing
Tuesday, 04 Jan 2022
  • Analysis and opinion

Have you opened your post-lockdown wardrobe, only to discover some of your beautiful summer clothes have holes in them? You’re probably blaming clothes moths but the real culprits are the larvae (caterpillars).

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A smiling woman holding a black and white dog and a stuffed toy owl and
Tuesday, 21 Dec 2021
  • Research story

From tracking down hard-to-find owls to protecting bats, there’s nothing Zorro the detection dog can’t do. 

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Jonah Lafferty
Monday, 20 Dec 2021
  • Student profile

“It’s funny,” recent graduate Jonah Lafferty says, “but often the things you do just to give them a go, they end up being the things that interest you the most.”

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A triptych of images shows a woman photographed in black and white, her facial expressions different in each image. She is wearing glasses and looks both serious and sad.
Monday, 20 Dec 2021
  • Analysis and opinion

Researchers have found that scientists are experiencing diverse, complex, and often contrasting emotions about the fate of the planet.

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Friday, 17 Dec 2021
  • Media release

A stunning image captured by researchers at The Australian National University (ANU) and Australia's national science agency, CSIRO, shows one of the Milky Way's closest neighbours in new detail.

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Two elk locking horns
Friday, 17 Dec 2021
  • Media release

Deeply entrenched scientific beliefs that for more than a century have explained why more men than women are high achievers because of biology are not backed up by evidence, according to new research.

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An older person stands next to a tree, talking to some children
Friday, 17 Dec 2021
  • Media release

A world-first study warns 1,500 endangered languages could no longer be spoken by the end of this century.

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Two people stand in front of a rocky wall, showing stripy layers
Tuesday, 14 Dec 2021
  • Media release

How is our Earth's inner core like a cake? According to Professor Hrvoje Tkalčić and Sheng Wang, there are more similarities than you might think.

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