Illuminating the cosmos
Art meets science to tell stories of the Universe. ANU art students showcased their astronomically inspired work at Mount Stromlo Observatory as part of the Enlighten festival.
Light up the night
Why are we so afraid to sing?
As part of her PhD at the ANU School of Medicine and Psychology, Katrina Rivera is researching music performance anxiety.
How to find your voice
How a museum heist caused a flutter in butterfly science
When a British adventurer stole thousands of butterflies from Australian museums in the 1940s, the impacts rippled on to science today.
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For an ANU biologist, what started as a routine glance at a butterfly specimen has ended with the discovery of a masterful deception, decades in the making.
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A new study reveals how much CO₂ was released to the atmosphere from the polar Southern Ocean in a period of rapid global warming between 18,000 and 11,000 years ago – and what factors were responsible.
As Dr Dominik Koll was investigating a new method of radio-dating ancient samples, he stumbled across evidence of a major event in the Earth’s history, around ten million years ago.
A new species of fish that lived in Australian freshwater lakes and rivers about 15 million years ago has been named after the researcher from The Australian National University (ANU) who played a key role in its discovery.
Are you interested in data wrangling, visualisation, analysis, and presentation design? The Research School of Finance, Actuarial Studies and Statistics will be holding an American Statistical Association DataFest from April 11 - 13.
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