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Working on the Clever Cockie Project, Dr Julia Penndorf is tracking all the odd but fascinating behaviours that Sydney and Canberra cockatoos get up to in urban environments.
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The discovery of a new critical enzyme could help engineer climate resilient crops capable of sucking far more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere in a much more efficient way.
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Researchers from ANU have made a discovery about a little understood protein in the human body that could help treat diseases that cause seizures, including epilepsy.
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Three exceptional scientists from The Australian National University (ANU) have been recognised for their world-leading work with our forests, marine megafauna and critical metals.
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Dr. Florence Danila of the Australian National University wins Thomas Davies 2024 grant from the Australian Academy of Science to support her work on plasmodesmata.
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ANU graduate and biologist 'WELI' knows more about kangaroos than most. He's hopped to the number one spot in the 2024 Dance Your PhD global contest with his quirky submission, ‘Kangaroo Time (Club Edit)’.
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We have a small and vanishing window to collect bees before the inevitable rapid spread of the varroa mites, and the mass die-offs, occur.
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Professor Alexander Maier, from the ANU Research School of Biology, has taken out the science category in the 2023 Awards for Teaching Excellence, announced by Universities Australia.
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Australia can lay claim to two new native mammal species, discovered as part of collaborative new research published in the journal Molecular Ecology.
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“We just need to educate people and build awareness of spiders, to show that they’re not actually the bad guys we want them to be.”
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The remarkable ability of mangrove forests to remember recent droughts could leave them more vulnerable to the impacts of climate change.
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How did saltwater crocodiles snap up Yusuke Fukuda’s heart?