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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, 10 May 2017
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ANU has welcomed the announcement in the federal Budget that the Australian astronomy community will gain access to telescopes in Chile

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Tuesday, 09 May 2017
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ANU is poised to provide China with its first Stellarator device

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Tuesday, 09 May 2017
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ANU scientists say the early Earth was likely to be barren, flat and almost entirely under water with a few small islands

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Monday, 08 May 2017

Plant scientist Professor Susanne von Caemmerer has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in the UK.

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Friday, 05 May 2017
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Scientists will take a stand when people lose their sense of judgment on science.

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Thursday, 04 May 2017
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A study led by ANU has solved the 168-year-old mystery of how the world's biggest and most active volcanoes formed in Hawaii.

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Friday, 28 Apr 2017
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ANU biologists have named an unlikely pair of plants after Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito, the stars of the 1988 movie Twins.

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Thursday, 27 Apr 2017
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The Australian National University (ANU) and the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade are helping make science more exciting and accessible across Africa.

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Monday, 24 Apr 2017
  • Student blog

A goddess with curves better than any beauty queen. I call her Sully, our own Miss World.

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