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A planet going the wrong way
Posted in: 2011, ACT Tags: 2011, ACT, astronomy, orbits, physics, planets, Solar System, space, stars, telescopesBy travelling backwards it’s pushing knowledge forwards All planets move around their stars in the same direction as the star spins—at least that’s what we thought. But now Australian National University astronomer Dr Daniel Bayliss and his colleagues have found that some planets break the mould.
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Life beneath the sheets: 9000 years in the dark
Posted in: 2009 Tags: 2009, ACT, Antarctica, climate, climate change, ecology, evolution, fossils, geology, glaciers, ice, marine science, microbiology, palaeontology, plankton, seafloor, sediments, shells, spongesResearchers at Geoscience Australia have unravelled the development of a unique seafloor community thriving in complete darkness below the giant ice sheets of Antarctica. The community beneath the Amery Ice Shelf in Antarctica is 100 km from open water and hidden from view by ice half a kilometre thick. This ecosystem has developed very slowly…
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Cleaner flights, smaller footprint
Posted in: 2008, ACT Tags: 2008, ACT, air traffic control, airplanes, aviation, carbon, carbon dioxide, computer modelling, computing, emissions, environment, noise pollution, simulators, transportSmarter air traffic control could save 500 kg of fuel and reduce airport noise by 35% for a typical Boeing 747 flight between Sydney and Melbourne according to a team of Canberra-based researchers.
Fresh Science
Fresh Science is a national competition helping early-career researchers find, and then share, their stories of discovery.
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Fresh Science 2021.
After the disruptions of this year, Fresh Science will return in 2021.
Nominations will open in April and close in June.
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In 2019, the program ran in NSW, SA, VIC, WA and in QLD.
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