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4 Jan 2023
Dr Adele Morrison, a user of the ACCESS suite of models, has won the 2022 Malcolm McIntosh Prize for Physical Scientist of the Year. The award recognises her...
4 Jan 2023
Dr Adele Morrison, a user of the ACCESS suite of models, has won the 2022 Malcolm McIntosh Prize for Physical Scientist of the Year. The award recognises her...
7 Dec 2022
They are in your smartphone, electric vehicles and used widely in renewable energy technology. But what exactly are ‘rare earth’ elements and just how rare are...
2 Dec 2022
The contents of the last meal consumed by the earliest animals known to inhabit Earth more than 550 million years ago has unearthed new clues about the...
29 Nov 2022
Almost all volcanic rocks come from the Earth's upper mantle (or lava). Volcanism, on the other hand, can have many different chemical and physical...
1 Nov 2022
Graduating with a Master of Earth Sciences (Advanced), Hangyu Meng came to ANU to pursue his curiosity about how the world works and to develop his research...
28 Oct 2022
ANU scientists have developed a new method to scan the deep interior of planets in our solar system using a single seismometer.
30 Aug 2022
Revelations from 17-million-year-old ape teeth could lead to new insights on early human evolution »
The timing and intensity of the seasons shapes life all around us, including tool use by birds, the evolutionary diversification of giraffes, and the behaviour...
22 Aug 2022
There's nothing like the fresh eggs from your own hens, the more than 400,000 Australians who keep backyard chooks will tell you. Unfortunately, it...
11 Aug 2022
A new Nature Geoscience study from The Australian National University (ANU) offers further clues about what happened to the Mediterranean during a tumultuous...
4 Jul 2022
PhD student Rachel Kirby has been knitting for about 10 years, but her latest creation is out of this world.
4 Jul 2022
Future weather and climate predictions have been given a major boost with the launch of a new national research facility worth $7.6 million.