Chemistry

Research stories

A bowl of soup, with numbers floating in the soup. There is also a spoon with a whole in it, the soup is spilling out from the hole with the number 100+.

Following a Blue Zone lifestyle is purported to help extend your lifespan. But do the numbers add up?

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Dog and woman

This frisbee-obsessed, four-legged ecologist has a special role to play in her owner's PhD research.

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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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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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