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Doughnut-shaped region found inside Earth’s core deepens understanding of planet’s magnetic field

A doughnut-shaped region thousands of kilometres beneath our feet within Earth’s liquid core has been discovered by ANU scientists, providing new clues about the dynamics of our planet’s magnetic field.

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Friday, 02 Dec 2016
  • News

One of the greatest threats to Australia's coral reefs originates not in the sea, but on land.

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Friday, 02 Dec 2016
  • Student blog

I had a plan, and I didn’t know how to begin deviating from it.

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Thursday, 01 Dec 2016

A team of physicists at ANU have used a technique known as 'ghost imaging' to create an image of an object from atoms that never interact with it.

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Wednesday, 30 Nov 2016
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One in five people aged 25 to 54 years old don't have time to exercise and eat healthy food, a new study led by ANU has found.

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Tuesday, 29 Nov 2016

ANU has paid tribute to Emeritus Professor Howard Bradbury AM, who dedicated 26 years to eradicating Konzo, a crippling neurological disease caused by high levels of a cyanide compound found in cassava, a common staple food in Africa.

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Tuesday, 29 Nov 2016

Two ANU science students have been selected for the Australian Government's New Colombo Plan (NCP) Scholarship for 2017, alongside five other ANU students.

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Tuesday, 29 Nov 2016

The Australian National University has welcomed ACT Government funding to bolster high-technology quantum communications for the space industry.

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Tuesday, 29 Nov 2016
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Australian researchers have discovered that the common Panic grasses could hold the secret to increasing the yields of cereal crops and help feed the world with increasing temperature extremes and a population of nearly 10 billion people by 2050.

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Monday, 28 Nov 2016
  • Research story

By 2050, the population of the world will be nine billion. That’s a lot of mouths to feed.

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