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Farm dam

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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Wednesday, 20 Sep 2017

Jennifer Robertson’s textile research focuses on exploring meaningful connections, correlations and analogies between geology and weaving.

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Wednesday, 20 Sep 2017
  • News

ANU science academics have been recognised for outstanding contributions to student learning in 2017 at the Australian Awards for University Teaching.

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Monday, 18 Sep 2017
  • Research story

Scientists at ANU have produced the best estimate of Earth’s elemental composition which will help them understand how the Earth formed 4.6 billion years ago.

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Saturday, 16 Sep 2017
  • Research story

ANU will help to boost food production to feed a rapidly growing world population as part of a major international research collaboration.

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Friday, 15 Sep 2017
  • News

ANU astronomers have bid farewell to the spacecraft Cassini, which will crash into Saturn just before 10pm tonight (AEST).

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Tuesday, 12 Sep 2017
  • Research story

Scientists at ANU have found a new way to store quantum data long enough to share the information around a next-generation internet, impervious to hacking.

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Friday, 08 Sep 2017
  • Research story

A new study led by The Australian National University (ANU) has found that animals and plants may live in warm caves under Antarctica’s glaciers.

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Thursday, 07 Sep 2017

ANU Research School of Biology PhD student Erin Andrew has been crowned the winner of the ANU 3MT.

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Monday, 04 Sep 2017
  • Academic profile

ANU Associate Professor Malcolm McLeod is creating new chemical methods for detecting doping, leading to a clean-up in the greyhound industry of steroid abuse.

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