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RT @AusSMC: 🐤 Like humans, animals can become stressed when trying to lead a group of peers in a particular direction, says @ANUmedia . htt….
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Leading the way comes at a cost for feathered friends Like humans, animals can become stressed when trying to lead a group of peers in a particular direction, a new study from The Austral
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Applications for the McMichael Award are now open! The Award supports outstanding early and mid-career researchers working on solutions to the global challenges posed by climate change. $30,000 is on offer to support agreed-upon research over 12 months.
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The McMichael Award and Fellowship Program will create and foster a global network of future leaders for a flourishing world.
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Congratulations to Professor Naomi McClure-Griffiths and Li Yusen from @ourANU who are among six astronomers to receive awards at the Annual Scientific Meeting of the Australian Astronomy Society in 2025. Read more:
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RT @ANUasiapacific: Are you an early-career researcher with a drive to create meaningful change?. Applications are now open for the Westpac….
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RT @ANU_Research: Meet the 'rock detective', ANU geochemist and volcanologist Dr Ana Casas Ramos, who is developing groundbreaking technolo….
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Congratulations to Professor Hrvoje Tkalčić from the ANU Research School of Earth Sciences for receiving a 2025 ARC Laureate Fellowship for the research project, 'Echoes from the Planetary Cores: Seismic Insights into Deep Worlds'.
We're proud to award $65.2 million for 17 new Australian Laureate Fellowships, including the Kathleen Fitzpatrick and Georgina Sweet Fellowships—supporting outstanding women in the humanities and sciences. Read more:
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Chemists from ANU and the University of Manchester have engineered a new type of molecule that can store information at temperatures as cold as the dark side of the moon at night, with major implications for the future of data storage.
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The new molecule developed by chemists from ANU and The University of Manchester can store digital data at temperatures as cold as the moon at night.
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This new device can degrade the forever chemical, PFAS, in water in just 6 minutes. Here’s how ANU PhD researcher Josef Richmond brought this space innovation down to Earth.
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ANU physicists have developed a groundbreaking device that combats the forever chemical PFAS, showing that space research can have real-world impact on Earth too.
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RT @uniaus: Are you shaping your community for the better?. Whether you are an individual, team, or university, if your work extends beyon….
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Sand Trakansuebkul, PhD student from JCSMR won the 2024 ANU Three Minute Thesis Competition with her brilliant talk on ‘The Recipe for Curing Cancer’. Here, she provides some vital tips in the lead-up to the 2025 3MT comp.
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Sand Trakansuebkul, winner of the 2024 ANU Three Minute Thesis competition, shares her tips from the experience.
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RT @ANU_Research: Congratulations to the emerging researchers from @ourANU who have been selected in the 2025 CHARM Rising Star Awards for….
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Sadly, almost 1,000 Australian invertebrates are threatened with extinction and need protecting. The good news? Simple actions from all of us can help protect them 🐝🦋🐞🦑.
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Sadly, almost 1,000 Australian invertebrates are threatened with extinction and need protecting.
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RT @UniversitySA: Migrating bogong moths use the stars and Earth’s magnetic field to find ancestral summer caves each year - new discovery….
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Australia’s iconic bogong moths are the first creatures other than humans and some birds known to navigate by the night sky.
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A world-first clinical trial targeting cancers that are currently undruggable will begin later this year, led by a research team from @ourANU and Canberra Health Services. The trial targets multiple cancer types, incl. prostate, breast & ovarian cancers.
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A world-first clinical trial targeting cancers that are currently undruggable will begin later this year, led by a research team from The Australian National University (ANU) and Canberra Health...
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RT @AntarcticSciAus: Huge congratulations to @AntarcticSciAus Deputy Director and Chief Investigator, Professor of Climate Science Nerilie….
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RT @AnaMMSequeira: And here is an article I wrote for @ConversationEDU about the just released Science paper showcasing @MegaMove_Org 's re….
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Almost 400 scientists from around the world came together to understand the movements of large marine mammals, using 30 years of satellite tracking data.
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Scientists are tracking ocean giants to help conservation 🐋🦈🐢. "We found that the areas used by these animals overlap significantly with threats like fishing, shipping, warming temperatures, and plastic pollution,” says A/Prof Ana Sequeira @MegaMove_Org.
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A team of international scientists has tracked over 100 marine megafauna species, identifying the most critical locations in our global oceans for better marine conservation efforts.
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RT @ProfMattEngland: Out today in Nature, our new paper on the drivers of the extreme summertime heating of the North Atlantic during 2023.….
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It sounds like something straight out of sci-fi, but scientists can now 3D-print living cells 🤯.In the future, we'll be able to 3D-print entire organs, predicts bioengineer Professor Adam Perriman from @JCSMR and the ANU Research School of Chemistry.
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These scientists can 3D-print living cells – a first step to printing our own organs.
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