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Physicist Dr Andrew Smith's studies of ice cores are helping build a better understanding of climate change. He spoke about his work in Greenland to students from Caringbah High School in the Sutherland Shire.

An educational and entertaining activity for curious kids these school holidays is the free “Up and Atom” science tours of Australia’s only nuclear science facility.

Is it possible to fight the dark side with a light sabre? Could you make yourself disappear with an invisible cloak? Can bacteria be teleported from one place to the other? 

Using radioactive isotopes to power the Curiosity Mars Rover. The most recent rover sent to survey the surface of Mars, the Curiosity Rover, uses a “nuclear battery” to supply its energy needs for the life of its mission.

Nuclear science techniques are crucial for understanding ancient cultures.ANSTO scientists have analysed archaeological remains up to 4000 years old from Bronze Age sites in northern China. 

In February 2012, two ANSTO scientists travelled to Antarctica to find out whether there is a historical connection between changes in solar activity and climate change on Earth.

Yabbies are helping ANSTO scientists find out who eats what in the Murray-Darling basin. Dr Mazumder and his team using yabbies to find out how naturally-occurring radioisotopes in an animal’s food, are incorporated into its body.

ANSTO scientists have used MRI scans to show that irradiation to kill pests in mangoes does not degrade or damage the fruit.

The growth of long-lived Antarctic mosses has slowed drastically since the 1980s due to climate change and the ozone hole, say scientists.

New radiocarbon dating tests on the skeletal remains of megafauna show that humans and megafauna coexisted in Tasmania.

Dr Richard Collins, a Senior Research Fellow with the University of NSW Water Research Centre, has been awarded the 2012 Fulbright Scholarship in Nuclear Science and Technology.

Scientists can find out how long ago something died using radiocarbon dating.

ANSTO is running fun and educational science programs these school holidays.

2011 is the United Nations’ International Year of Chemistry. This is a global celebration of this critical scientific field and looks at how chemistry shapes everything in the world and contributes to our wellbeing.

Welcome back to school for 2011. Teachers and students alike will find that ANSTO has some great resources for teaching and learning science this year.

The free science tours of Australia’s only research reactor have been so popular these holidays, that they are now booked out!

Beauty and science will join forces at ANSTO these school holidays. Equipped with a few simple ingredients, kids can transform every-day household items like bicarbonate soda and water into a bath fizzer.