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While people in these regions might say they are living to be 100 or even 110, there is simply no evidence for their age. Dr Newman has tracked down 80 percent of the people in the world who are over ...

What constitutes mathematical knowledge? What is included in mathematics? Who gets to decide? These are some of the questions being asked in a growing decolonisation movement. “Mathematics is a ...

It’s gob-smacking that bioluminescent fungi are real. Glow in the dark mushrooms feel like a fairy house straight from Enid Blyton’s imagination, not something that genuinely exists in our forests.

By connecting climate change to its material impact on the world, scientists have transformed an observation into a policy problem. The history of this discussion demonstrates the power of changing ...

The Astronomical Society of Australia (ASA) honoured six astronomers at its Annual Scientific Meeting in Adelaide this week, including two ANU scientists. In this collaborative project, researchers ...

Yang Jian Nan 杨建南 “在我报名之前，我意识到数学硕士（Master of Mathematical Sciences）的一些课程可能会具有挑战性 ...

As well as the environmental benefits, cultural burning has multiple dimensions for First Nations practitioners: it is spiritual, cultural and social. It’s also a way to share knowledge across ...

While the sample appeared similar to the ketamine standard, Cassie’s trained eye saw something was off. The rate at which chemical X ran its race (known as the retention time) was similar, but its ...

The humble wildlife nest box has been given a hi-tech overhaul to help greater gliders severely impacted by Australia's bushfire disaster recover. The nest boxes are the result of a new project ...

The Australian Phenomics Facility (APF) supports open access large-scale phenotyping of humans and mice to uncover the biological drivers in human disease. The Australian Phenomics Facility ...

A doughnut-shaped region thousands of kilometres beneath our feet within Earth’s liquid core has been discovered by scientists from The Australian National University (ANU), providing new clues about ...