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Top image Rosmalia Dita Nugraheni Winner of the Bake Your PhD competition. Photo: Nic Vevers/ANU
Thursday, 24 Oct 2024
  • News

What happens when research rolls into the kitchen? These PhD students will tell you that you can have your cake and eat it too.

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Professor Ron Hackney (L) with Professor Will Grant. Photo: Jamie Kidston/ANU
Wednesday, 23 Oct 2024
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A team of international scientists, including two researchers from The Australian National University (ANU), will soon sail to the Japan Trench to discover more about what causes tsunamis.

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ANU seismologists Dr Thanh-Son Phạm and Jinyin Hu say monitoring the release of gases from volcanic sites can help better prepare for future events. Photo: Jamie Kidston/ANU
Friday, 04 Oct 2024
  • Research story

ANU seismologists Dr Thanh-Son Phạm and Jinyin Hu say monitoring the release of gases from volcanic sites can help better prepare for future events. Photo: Jamie Kidston/ANU

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Dr Michael Anenburg. Photo: Jamie Kidston/ANU
Friday, 04 Oct 2024
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Dr Michael Anenburg. Photo: Jamie Kidston/ANU

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Professor David Green
Tuesday, 10 Sep 2024
  • News

It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Professor David Green on 6 September 2024.

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Headshot of a man
Monday, 09 Sep 2024
  • News

A doughnut-shaped region thousands of kilometres beneath our feet within Earth’s liquid core has been discovered by ANU scientists, providing new clues about the dynamics of our planet’s magnetic field.

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Seismograph and earthquake illustration
Thursday, 08 Aug 2024
  • News

More than 100 years on from Queensland's largest earthquake, researchers are re-writing history having discovered the epicentre was more than 250 kilometres away from where they thought it was.

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Hunga Tonga
Monday, 03 Jun 2024
  • Research story

A newly published study in the international Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research offers an alternative mechanism that triggered the 15 January 2022 Hunga (Tonga) eruption, proposing the powerful eruption was caused by a gas-driven climactic explosion rather than a phreatomagmatic one - where magma and water react violently through the water column.

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Antarctica ice from above
Tuesday, 28 May 2024
  • Analysis and opinion

This new research uses gravity-sensing satellites to track how changes in water storage on land can cause unexpected fluctuations in sea levels.

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