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…

Keck observatory on Mauna Kea, Hawaii.
Rare ring galaxy captured 11 billion light-years away
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Astronomers from the ARC Centre of Excellence for All Sky Astrophysics in 3 Dimensions (ASTRO 3D) have captured an image of a super-rare type of galaxy,…

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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…

The research team after their return to Hobart. Credit: Professor Hrvoje Tkalčić
Unlocking Macquarie Island’s geological secrets
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A team of ARC-supported researchers embarked on a landmark voyage to shed new light on Macquarie Island’s underlying structure and geological evolution, and…

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…

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…

Western cavity, Pudjinuk Rockshelter. Credit: Amy Roberts, Flinders University
Graffiti records the stories of conflict
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Archaeologists from Flinders University have analysed 188 engravings in a remote South Australian rockshelter, which depict symbols of conflict and stand as a…

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…

Darryl Kickett (centre) with Narrogin-based Research Assistant and Dryandra Wilman Elder Travis Abraham (left) and Wilman Elder Clive Abraham (right). Credit: Curtin University
Healing land and people with biodiversity research
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A Discovery Indigenous research project led by Mr Darryl Kickett from Curtin University's School of Media, Creative Arts and Social Inquiry is advancing…