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- Student profile
“This is wild,” says Tharika Liyanage talking about cheilanthanes. And the thing is, you can’t help but agree – even if you don’t know what cheilanthanes are.
- Research story
How is our Earth's inner core like a cake? According to Professor Hrvoje Tkalčić and Sheng Wang from The Australian National University (ANU), there are more similarities than you might think.
- Research story
A year of heavy rainfall has Lake George looking very full of water, a far cry from the dry state it was in during the drought of 2017-2019.
- Research story
A significant mission to retrieve 27 seismometers from the rugged ocean floor near Macquarie Island in the Southern Ocean will unlock the secrets of the Earth's inner layers.
- Research story
The prize after decades of investment into geoscience data, tools and collaboration between government and industry? A mineral deposit discovery that will provide raw materials for clean energy technologies.
- News
The Australian Meteorological & Oceanographic Society (AMOS) today released its position statement on climate change
- Research story
The September earthquake in eastern Victoria shook the ground for hundreds of kilometres around and damaged buildings as far away as Melbourne – and took many people by surprise.
- News
Scientists share analysis of first fresh samples from the moon in more than 40 years
- Student profile
Meet PhD candidate Jess Hargreaves. Jess wanted to be a mathematician, so how did she end up a palaeoclimatologist? Because of a clam.