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Professor Hutmacher (R) demonstrating the chest implant with Dr Matthew Cheng (L). Credit: Metro South Health.
World-first 3D printed chest reconstruction implant
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A world-first 3D printed chest reconstruction implant is the outcome of years of research led by Professor Dietmar W. Hutmacher, director of the ARC Industrial…

Rodney kirk, Jiawen Li. Credit: University of Adelaide.
Tiny tech gets to the heart of disease
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A team of researchers at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Nanoscale BioPhotonics (CNBP) has developed the world’s tiniest endoscope.

Common whitetail dragonfly. Credit: Public domain image by Christopher Johnson (Insects Unlocked, University of Texas at Austin)
Insect wings might be the new weapon against ‘superbugs’
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A team of scientists has revealed how nanomaterials inspired by insect wings are able to destroy bacteria on contact, which holds promise for a new era of…

‘Smart’ wound dressing technology
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ARC-supported scientists have developed a next generation wound dressing that can detect infection and improve healing in burns, skin grafts and chronic wounds.

One of the iconic boab trees with a carving in the Kimberley, WA. Credit: Jane Balme
Recording the stories carved in ancient boab trees
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Research leaders from four Australian universities, supported through one of the first ARC Special Research Initiative for Australian Society, History and…

May Nango, Dr Florin and Djaykuk Djandjomerr collecting plants in Kakadu. Credit: Elspeth Hayes, with permission of the Gundjeihmi Aboriginal Corporation.
Ancient food debris tells the story of 65,000 years
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Australia’s oldest known plant foods, eaten by early communities 65,000 years ago, have been discovered by researchers working at a remote rockshelter in the…

r Ivan Maksymov's worm research may benefit neuroscience and robotics. Credit: Swinburne University of Technology.
Ig Noble Prize for research using intoxicated worms
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The worldwide ig nobel awards (for improbable research) showcase creative and different approaches to solving serious and complicated problems. The name of the…

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Study of rat skulls reveals an unexpectedly simple recipe for adaptive success
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An ARC-supported study, co-led by scientists from Flinders University and The University of Queensland, has revealed that the skulls of rodents resemble each…

The Figueira Brava cave on the Portuguese coast was used as a shelter by Neanderthal populations over the course of twenty millennia. Credit: Pedro Souto.
Neanderthals were as familiar with the sea as modern humans
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ARC-supported researchers at The University of Adelaide are part of a research team that has uncovered new evidence about how our closest extinct human…

Day and night at the Anglo Australian Telescope
Huge new dataset reveals chemical data on 600,000 stars
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Researchers are excited by the astronomical questions that can now be answered following the release of ‘GALAH DR3’, the largest set of stellar chemical data…

ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) recipients, Dr Nicolás Campione and Dr Phil Bell, and PhD candidate Timothy Frauenfelder, from the University of New England, have been studying opalised dinosaur teeth to help paint a picture of the eating habits and lifestyles of the largest land animals to ever roam the planet: sauropods. The teeth were found near the town of Lightning Ridge and are ~100 million years old. Confident in the knowledge that sauropod tooth fossils with different shapes cam
What opal fossils tell us about giant Australian dinosaurs
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ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) recipients, Dr Nicolás Campione and Dr Phil Bell, and PhD candida

The research team:Top row from left: Jason Jung, Ali Almasi (joint 1st author), Hamish Meffin (joint 1st author), Scott Sun. Bottom row: Molis Yunzab, Michael Ibbotson (Lab Head), Mitchell Crawford (lab technician). Credit: ARC Centre of Excellence for Integrative Brain Function.
How the human brain processes visual information
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A team of researchers at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Integrative Brain Function, with lead researchers Dr Ali Almasi from the National Vision Research…