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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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ANU medical student Atul Sharma in Mutitjulu, near Uluru
Thursday, 08 Jun 2023
  • News
  • Student blog

Medical student Atul Sharma reflects on how a remote placement in Central Australia allowed him to explore his Australian-Indian identity, and embrace his name.

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AI-generated image of eukaryotes
Thursday, 08 Jun 2023
  • News

The discovery of a “lost world” of ancient organisms that lived in Earth’s waterways at least 1.6 billion years ago could change our understanding of our earliest ancestors.

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Nurse holding the hand of an older patient
Wednesday, 07 Jun 2023
  • News

The life stories and personal preferences of individuals living with dementia in aged care facilities will be recorded as part of a four-year $1.35 million project to help provide them with more personalised care and support.

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Stars and people
Wednesday, 07 Jun 2023
  • Analysis and opinion

The Indigenous science and stories behind Mulligans Flat.

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Professor Thomas Preiss in the lab
Monday, 05 Jun 2023
  • News

Decades of RNA research by ANU experts has helped crack the code of life and assist in the fight against viruses – but that’s just the beginning.

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Two wolves in snow
Monday, 05 Jun 2023
  • Research story

Pele Cannon lived with wolves in Colorado: here’s what she learned.

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Koala clings to tree
Monday, 05 Jun 2023
  • Analysis and opinion

Now begins a long and difficult process to recover vast areas of forest after more than 50 years of clearfelling and other destructive logging practices. It’s a huge job, but it can be done. Here's an outline of what’s needed.

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Boardwalk in grass
Thursday, 01 Jun 2023
  • Analysis and opinion

This is the first time an assessment of boundaries has quantified the harms to people from changes to the Earth system.

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Man holding bone plates
Thursday, 01 Jun 2023
  • News

A customised bone plate was implanted into a patient after a collaboration between ANU, Canberra Hospital and the M3D ARC training centre, helping to heal a decades-old injury to the patient’s thigh bone.

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