Chemistry

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A study led by ANU has solved the 168-year-old mystery of how the world's biggest and most active volcanoes formed in Hawaii.

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ANU biologists have named an unlikely pair of plants after Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito, the stars of the 1988 movie Twins.

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A new study on UHT milk is helping scientists to better understand Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and type 2 diabetes

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The first satellites built in Australia in the past 15 years have been launched from Cape Canaveral in Florida

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We don't yet know what could happen to these cute little amphibians should temperatures continue to climb, and they in turn run out of mountainside to climb.

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The Australian National University (ANU) is launching a search for a new planet in our Solar System, inviting anyone around to lend a hand.

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ANU biologists have found the first evidence of mass extinction of Australian animals caused by a dramatic drop in global temperatures 35 million years ago.

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ANU Chemists have found a way to use sunlight to purify wastewater rapidly and cheaply, and to make self-cleaning materials for buildings.

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Physicists have designed a handheld devicethat will use the power of MRI and mass spectrometry to perform a chemical analysis of objects.

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