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Dr Elizabeth Williams is shaping safer tech and industry practices for everyone

You may have heard the maxim ‘think outside the box’. But when it comes to engineering, Dr Elizabeth Williams wants to redefine the box by making technology with diverse people in mind.

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ANU start-up offers green solutions for extraction of valuable materials

A simple and cost-effective method developed by scientists at ANU could make the process of extracting valuable resources from brine deposits more environmentally friendly.

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The Australian National University acknowledges, celebrates and pays our respects to the Ngunnawal and Ngambri people of the Canberra region and to all First Nations Australians on whose traditional lands we meet and work, and whose cultures are among the oldest continuing cultures in human history.

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Dr Stephen Dann’s office is jammed with trinkets, toys and treasures – and he wants you to use them to express yourself.

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As viewers prepare for the Netflix Pride and Prejudice adaptation, Dr Amelia Dale discusses Jane Austen’s enduring legacy.

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Rare archival photographs commemorate a pivotal moment of Zenadth Kes (Torres Strait) history

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Australia’s oldest occupied ice age cave found at high elevation in Blue Mountains

Archaeologists, in collaboration with First Nations community members who hold cultural connections with the Blue Mountains, have unearthed 693 stone artefacts dating from the last ice age to the recent past.

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Welcome to room 1070, it’s completely normal

Dr Stephen Dann’s office is jammed with trinkets, toys and treasures – and he wants you to use them to express yourself.

Meet Ana: advancing our knowledge of the Earth through cutting-edge technology

Dr Ana Casas Ramos is developing groundbreaking technologies to make mining more sustainable, but that wasn’t originally the plan.

Why the US strikes on Iran are illegal and can set a troubling precedent

The US has bombed Iranian nuclear facilities in what is being called 'self-defence'. But what does international law say? And how should Australia respond?

The end of US democracy and what this means for international relations

Once the pillar of democracy, the US now flirts with authoritarianism.

3D-printed organs? It’s not as far-fetched as you think

These scientists can 3D-print living cells - a first step to printing our own organs.

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