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Better dams offer major benefits to farmers and livestock
Managing the water quality of farm dams is critical to the health of livestock as well as boosting crop production, according to new research from the ANU Sustainable Farms group.
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The Australian National University (ANU) is taking a lead role in preparing the next international climate assessment.
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Separating fact from fiction in the age of alternate facts is becoming increasingly difficult, and now a new study has helped reveal why.
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A loophole in the law could spell disaster for threatened species that rely on bush rock.
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When friends, family and colleagues talk about Dr Rob Lesslie, one word keeps coming up: worldview.
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The ANU MakerSpace offers specialised tools and “makers crash-course” training to help its participants create, invent, and learn.
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Ningaloo Reef is one of the most beautiful tourist attractions in Australia, but it is also an important research site.
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Decision-makers need to be more aware of the role of disturbances in degrading ecosystems.
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China’s first space station, Tiangong-1, which is now defunct, is set to crash back to Earth over the coming days.
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Dr Brad Tucker from ANU has seen the death throes of a star cocooned inside a dense shell of gas and dust, which ended in a violent explosion.