Chemistry

Research stories

The unexpected poetry of PhD acknowledgements

We read hundreds and hundreds of PhD acknowledgements. What we found was a kind of poetry in the science.

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Cockatoo research

Working on the Clever Cockie Project, Dr Julia Penndorf is tracking all the odd but fascinating behaviours that Sydney and Canberra cockatoos get up to in urban environments.

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Cultural burning

ANU ecologists and a cohort of New South Wales Local Aboriginal Land Councils are joining together on a project to re-introduce cultural burning in box-gum grassy woodlands and to monitor the environmental outcomes of the burns.

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Headshot of a woman

There's a growing movement to decolonise mathematics. Professor Rowena Ball explains what this means and why it is important.

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Animals in a kitchen

What business does a wild animal have in contributing to our domestic bliss?

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Woman in a lab

This ANU researcher isn’t afraid of shaking things up — making her own volcanic eruptions to better understand how they cause our climate to change.

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Man holds a spider in a clear box

“We just need to educate people and build awareness of spiders, to show that they’re not actually the bad guys we want them to be.”

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A black bird with a curved beak and red eyes

The white-winged chough is one of the weirder birds out there.

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Paleomagnetic laboratory

A secret lab? Few people know about this Earth sciences lab that’s tucked away on the side of a mountain in Canberra.

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