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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 ...

For the past thirty years, Helen has been undertaking fieldwork for a project following the fairy-wrens of the botanic gardens, giving her a unique view of their complex lives. She confesses that she ...

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 ...

What are foxes eating? The 300 million native animals that foxes kill every year consists of: reptiles: foxes kill 88 million reptiles each year, and all are native. They’ve been recorded killing 108 ...

Scientists have detected radio signals from hot gas surrounding a supermassive black hole that existed 12.9 billion years ago, according to new research from an international team of scientists ...

ANU Science On Location tells the stories of ANU researchers who have conducted this kind of long-term research in diverse locations across Australia. With projects running for 30 years or longer, ...

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That meant spending a lot of time doing fieldwork in a national park. “Objectively speaking, it took about nine months in total, over three years,” says Weliton. “Psychologically, by being so immersed ...

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 ...

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.