News: School of Physical Sciences
Sciences Alumni Network launches inaugural mentoring program
![Sciences Alumni Network mentoring program zoom meeting](/sites/default/files/styles/ua_landscape/public/media/images/2020-06/sciences-alumni-netowrk-mentoring-zoom.jpg?h=eca34813&itok=O75bzIPC)
Connecting early career scientists with more experienced graduates; your update from the Sciences Alumni Network.
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Scientists in the news this week: June 19, 2020
![Molly Hennekam from the University's Unmanned Research Aircraft Facility](/sites/default/files/styles/ua_landscape/public/media/images/2020-06/molly-drone-1893_0.jpg?h=2f83cd36&itok=t7RE3rZf)
Your round-up of University of Adelaide scientists and science graduates in the news this week.
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Scientists in the news this week: June 12, 2020
![Dr Susan Hazel](/sites/default/files/styles/ua_landscape/public/media/images/2019-01/susan-hazel.jpg?h=a7e6d17b&itok=pjOPgkXE)
Your round-up of University of Adelaide scientists and science graduates in the news this week.
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Scientists in the news this week: June 5, 2020
![Tanya Nowland animal science graduate and production animal researcher](/sites/default/files/styles/ua_landscape/public/media/images/2020-06/tanya-nowland-pig-web.jpg?h=67eabc4d&itok=afLKLGg-)
Your round-up of University of Adelaide scientists and science graduates in the news this week.
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Scientists in the news this week: May 29, 2020
![Associate Professor Glenn McDonald](/sites/default/files/styles/ua_landscape/public/media/images/2020-05/news-glenn-mcdonald-ag.jpg?h=e5aec6c8&itok=tniiLp8x)
Your round-up of University of Adelaide scientists and science graduates in the news this week.
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Scientists in the news this week: May 22, 2020
![The University of Adelaide's Associate Professor Stuart Roy and SARDI's Dr Rhiannon Schilling are looking for opportunities to better understand soil and crop variability in sodic and saline soils. Image: Katherine Hollaway, GRDC](/sites/default/files/styles/ua_landscape/public/media/images/2020-05/news-stuart-roy-rhiannon-schilling.jpg?h=d84098c2&itok=WyNfPY9n)
Your round-up of University of Adelaide scientists and science graduates in the news this week.
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Humans coexisted with three-tonne marsupials and lizards as long as cars in ancient Australia
![Life and death in tropical Australia, 40,000 years ago. Giant reptiles ruled northern Australia during the Pleistocene with mega-marsupials as their prey. Image Credit: R. Bargiel, V. Konstantinov, A. Atuchin & S. Hocknull (2020). Queensland Museum.](/sites/default/files/styles/ua_landscape/public/media/images/2020-05/news-megafauna-qld.jpeg?h=b8aae163&itok=SeHzLCFb)
Palaeontologists have found fossils of a huge extinct animals that answer, but also pose new questions in the megafauna extinction debate.
Scientists in the news this week: May 15, 2020
![NExUS alumni beach](/sites/default/files/styles/ua_landscape/public/media/images/2020-05/nexus-alumni-2018-group-beach.jpg?h=63bb0dd0&itok=0ym1N5b3)
Your round-up of University of Adelaide scientists and science graduates in the news this week.
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Scientists in the news this week: May 8, 2020
![Tiah Bampton living her childhood dream working at the Naracoorte Caves (ABC South East SA: Isadora Bogle)](/sites/default/files/styles/ua_landscape/public/media/images/2020-05/tiah-bampton-palaeo.jpg?h=453cbb0e&itok=K74KiUBk)
Your round-up of University of Adelaide scientists and science graduates in the news this week.
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New 'Top Talent' appointment to elevate University's critical minerals research
![Dr Carl Spandler, Associate Professor of Critical Minerals](/sites/default/files/styles/ua_landscape/public/media/images/2020-05/carl-spandler-2363.jpg?h=036f3151&itok=QWYQqlvc)
The University of Adelaide has appointed Carl Spandler as Associate Professor of Critical Minerals, part of the Top Talent program to attract the world’s best minds to South Australia.
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