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30 January 2025
ANU part of new $US150M partnership with Rio Tinto to support global energy transition
Researchers from ANU will partner with Rio Tinto to ensure First Nations cultural knowledge and perspectives are central to the global energy transition.
15 July 2024
New alliance to drive Indigenous economic empowerment
ANU-led alliance aims to transform Indigenous welfare into Indigenous wealth.
2 April 2024
Sediment discovery unlocks Australia’s hidden net-zero resource potential
A new method of measuring sediment thickness across Australia’s interior offers a cost-effective and straightforward solution for estimating seismic hazard and resource potential while reducing carbon footprint.
26 October 2023
ANU partnership to deliver safe innovations in nuclear science
ANU and Los Alamos National Laboratory to collaborate on nuclear science for medicine, the environment and new technologies.
27 April 2023
Australia's future needs us to better fund and use research
Here are three big ideas to help reset higher education to deliver the system Australians need and deserve.
21 September 2021
Collaboration to power Australia's minerals future
A new collaboration between ANU and Curtin University will help Australian mining companies better identify, characterise and extract critical minerals, as well as ensure the long-term viability of Australia's minerals industry.
14 March 2025
How plants could help power the green energy transition
Biological science is changing the way we harness and manage renewable energy, according to a new study from ANU researchers.
7 December 2022
What are 'rare earth' elements and why are they important?
Rare earth elements are in the palms of our hands and have a big role to play in a greener future.
17 February 2025
Power plants: the green way to sustain the global energy transition
ANU scientist Professor Caitlin Byrt is harnessing the power of plants to create a sustainable future for people and the planet.
25 October 2022
We must rebuild a uni sector that powers a prosperous future
Research in Australia’s universities should be driven by curiosity and education by student need, not commerce.
25 January 2023
How plants are inspiring new ways to extract value from wastewater
ANU researchers are trying to figure out how to extract value from the world's wastewater, which is rich with precious resources.
15 May 2024
Our efforts to prevent extreme violence aren't working
Australia's current approach to preventing extremism is too siloed. Could greater cooperation between agencies prevent further tragedies?
19 August 2022
Australian conservatism succumbs to the same radical tendency as like-minded parties abroad
As shocking at Morrison’s secret cabinet commissions were, it may be that the failure of the Coalition parties to clearly condemn it that inflicts the greater long-term damage.
30 June 2020
Translating COVID messages vital for Indigenous health
COVID-19 has underlined the urgent need for a coordinated national framework of interpreters and translation services for Australia’s Indigenous languages, say leading experts. Indigenous community members, academics and language researchers have raced to translate crucial COVID-19 health messaging into 29 Australian Indigenous languages with a further 50 to 100 languages still to go. To help, the Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language (CoEDL) based at The Australian National University (ANU) has established a resource and information clearing house for translated materials. Director of CoEDL, Professor Nicholas Evans said getting correct messages to many Indigenous communities has been an enormous undertaking. “While the health messages are absolutely critical, they also have be culturally appropriate and delivered by the right people,” he said. “Messaging around restricting numbers at funerals and ‘sorry camps’ – where…