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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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Friday, 26 May 2017
  • Research story

Online volunteers have helped astronomers at The Australian National University (ANU) find a star that exploded 970 million years ago

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Friday, 26 May 2017
  • News

Parasitologists at RSB, JCSMR and the Centre for Advanced Microscopy are celebrating a new dual PhD program that pairs ANU with Humboldt University in Berlin.

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Tuesday, 23 May 2017
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A team of international astrophysicists led by The Australian National University (ANU) has shown how most of the antimatter in the Milky Way forms.

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Large multi storied building on university campus.
Tuesday, 23 May 2017
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A climate policy expert at The Australian National University (ANU) says the world would be better off if the US withdraws from the global climate agreement

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Monday, 22 May 2017

Science communicators from eight African countries created a pop-up interactive science exhibition on Monday 22 May.

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Friday, 19 May 2017
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An ANU physicist has been enlisted into an international network of scientists working to build a sustainable future with fusion energy.

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Thursday, 18 May 2017
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Engineers have invented tiny structures inspired by butterfly wings that open the door to new solar cell technologies and other applications.

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Tuesday, 16 May 2017
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ANU is inviting everyone with an interest in astronomy to join a search that the University is leading for exploding stars called supernovae.

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Friday, 12 May 2017
  • Research story

Scientists have discovered a way to solve a problem that has baffled humans for so long it is in the Bible

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