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Teeth record the hidden history of your childhood climate and diet

New research shows that teeth contain a week-by-week climatic history of their owner’s childhood.

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Man in storeroom looking at a blue rock
Monday, 03 Apr 2023
  • Career story

This is a job you’d want to rock up to every day.
Peek behind the scenes on a tour of the collection with Museum Curator at Geoscience Australia and ANU alumni, Steven Petkovski.

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A man standing in front of computer servers with a laptop
Friday, 31 Mar 2023
  • Student profile

When Dhruv Bhagtani landed in Australia thanks to a prestigious Future Research Talent Award, he knew he’d be doing world-class undergraduate research. What he didn’t expect was the world of opportunity it also opened up.

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A smiling man in a brown patterned shirt standing in a court room
Thursday, 30 Mar 2023
  • Staff profile

“If they need me," Dr Brad Tucker says, "it is either a critical point for what is happening or it is a very serious matter, the kind of thing you see on the news, so they want as much detail as possible.”

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Iceberg
Thursday, 30 Mar 2023
  • Analysis and opinion

New research, published today in the journal Nature, projects a slowing of the Antarctic overturning circulation and deep ocean warming over the next few decades. This could change our climate and marine environment in profound and potentially irreversible ways.

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A mangrove in a landscape and a waterbird at dusk
Tuesday, 28 Mar 2023
  • Analysis and opinion

A new report card on Australia’s environment reveals 2022 was a bumper year for our rivers and vegetation – but it wasn’t enough to reverse the long-term decline in plant and animal species.

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Researcher Erin Walsh holding up a model of a brain.
Tuesday, 28 Mar 2023
  • News

More magnesium in our daily diet leads to better brain health as we age, according to scientists from the Neuroimaging and Brain Lab at The Australian National University.

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Soumiga Gopalakrishnan (BHealthSc ’21)
Monday, 27 Mar 2023
  • Student blog

"Nine years ago, my family and I fled war in Sri Lanka. We travelled to Australia by boat and spent months living in detention centres before settling in Brisbane, where I finished my high-school education with dreams of attending university."

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Bushfire with sign and firefighter silouhetted
Tuesday, 21 Mar 2023
  • Analysis and opinion

The world is in deep trouble on climate change, but if we really put our shoulder to the wheel we can turn things around. Loosely, that’s the essence of today’s report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

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Woman in lab at computer
Monday, 20 Mar 2023
  • News

Victoria’s largest earthquake since record-keeping began roughly 200 years ago was caused by the rupture of a previously unknown faultline, according to new research.

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