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Public research university in Canberra, Australia, known for strength in physical sciences, astronomy, and public policy research.
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Australian National University researchers spent three years coating two LIGO beamsplitters to within a nanometer or two across almost half a meter of glass. Both optics belong to an upgrade meant to give the detector its greatest sensitivity yet.
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Researchers led by the Australian National University used a laser to twist liquid crystals around a silicon metasurface and retune it without electrodes. The Science Advances result points to optical parts that light can reset after manufacture.
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ASU and ANU researchers matched airborne maps of six Peruvian forest types to 1,331 bird species and found bird traits and threats split along those types. They argue tree-cover maps could leave swamp-forest birds exposed, though the published account shows associations and no head-to-head test against such maps.
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A single azatryptophan, which differs from tryptophan by one nitrogen, raised PET breakdown in an already heavily engineered hydrolase while thermal stability held. The team also built a minutes-long activity assay.
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Nothing grows in the dark at Cloggs Cave, so the half-burnt silica plant microfossils in its ash layers came in with people. The dated layers show the same act being repeated for at least 2,800 years.
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An Adelaide-led team reports that magma feeding volcanoes in Western Australia's Pilbara Craton drew on a source that already held water, and proposes a pre-plate-tectonic process called dripduction to explain how it got down there.
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Melbourne and ANU researchers mapped inundation onto property registers under a mid-range warming scenario, then held storm intensity constant and left erosion out, which is why $855 billion is a floor.
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An ARC Center of Excellence team let its simulations leave the flat geometry, got rippled and sideways-shifted layers, and found X-ray scattering from real samples consistent with them. Phosphorus and nickel predictions moved with the structure.
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Guardian Australia checked the references in every submission made to the current parliament against academic databases, and some of the documents that failed the check had already been quoted in committee reports.
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The events lack the high-frequency energy that standard detection depends on, which is why they went uncatalogued. The busiest stretch, 2018 to 2020, lines up with a satellite-confirmed speed-up of the Thwaites ice tongue.
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An ANU-led team turned more than 6,000 Mexican confiscation records into a circuit model of trafficking corridors. The evidence base averages about 214 records a year.
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An ANU group carves freestanding wire grids out of aluminum foil in 15 seconds. The part is nearly free. The datasheet that purchasing departments actually buy has not been published.
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The technology trial used to justify Australia's under-16 social media ban carries citations critics call AI-fabricated. Its authors conceded ChatGPT use only after being shown link metadata.
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