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28 Aug 2019
A new study argues that Saturn's interior flows like honey due to its magnetic field, which may help solve the mystery of why the planet's powerful...
22 Aug 2019
This new study redefines our understanding of how the concentration of methane in the atmosphere of Mars changes over time, and this helps us to solve the...
22 Aug 2019
A first-of-its-kind analysis of 'super-deep' diamonds from hundreds of kilometres below the Earth's surface has provided new clues about the...
15 Aug 2019
The seven-year funding for Centres of Excellence ostensibly supports focused research across existing scientific communities but, as the Consortium for Ocean-...
25 Jul 2019
In the 70's, RSES was one of the few labs in the world to work on Apollo samples. Prof. Ross Taylor and three other ANU researchers — Bill Compston, Ted...
25 Jul 2019
Rocks collected from the moon 50 years ago and analysed by an international team of scientists, including from The Australian National University (ANU), dispel...
24 Jun 2019
Data from new satellites reveal the alarming extent of the recent drought in Australia and confirms a significant loss of ice in Antarctica, say ANU scientists.
17 Jun 2019
It is with gerat sadness to report the that one of our most distinguished graduate students, Jeremy Richards, died suddenly in Toronto last Friday.
7 May 2019
Australian scientists have developed an innovative method using cores drilled from coral to produce a world first 400-year long seasonal record of El Niño...
21 Mar 2019
The near-Earth asteroid, Bennu, has thrown NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission a curve ball as its rough surface littered with boulders had not been anticipated,...
20 Mar 2019
PhD scholar Ilya Bobrovskiy has already revealed the earliest known animal, but you can expect some more big discoveries from this young scientist. Will Wright...