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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, 26 Oct 2016
  • Academic profile

Professor Robyn Lucas has been awarded the 2016 John James Foundation Tony Ayers Prize for Excellence in Translational Medicine.

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Tuesday, 25 Oct 2016
  • News

An international research team has released a top-10 list of ways countries can protect pollinating insects such as bees.

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Tuesday, 25 Oct 2016
  • News

Geologists have for the first time seen and documented the Banda Detachment fault in eastern Indonesia and worked out how it formed.

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Friday, 21 Oct 2016
  • Career story

For most people, finding out you’ve lost your job is a catastrophe, but for Victoria Clark, there was a silver lining

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Friday, 21 Oct 2016
  • News

Landowners could do more to help protect vulnerable wildlife such as koalas and Tasmanian devils by leasing animals and giving them a home on private land under a proposal from an international study.

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Friday, 21 Oct 2016

PhD student Andrea Parisi from the Research School of Population Health and a team of developers from ANU won first prize in Canberra's first HealthHack event.

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Thursday, 20 Oct 2016
  • News

Australian scientists have worked with researchers in Germany to create the most detailed map of the Milky Way, using the world’s largest radio telescopes. 

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Thursday, 20 Oct 2016

ANU scientist Dr Rachel Wood has been honoured as one of Australia's leading women researchers in the inaugural Women in Research Citation Awards.

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Thursday, 20 Oct 2016
  • Research story

It was Professor Brian Schmidt who received a Nobel Prize, but it was technology, he says, that facilitated the discovery.

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