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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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Saturday, 27 Aug 2016
  • Research story

What’s an atmospheric scientist you ask? What isn’t an atmospheric scientist is more like it. Meet Dr Margi Bohm. She describes herself as a jack-of-all-trades. That’s the understatement of the century.

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Friday, 26 Aug 2016

Rare bettongs and sumo wrestling robots will be on show as ANU opens its lecture halls, accommodation and science labs to about 8,000 prospective students on Saturday as part of its annual Open Day.

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Friday, 26 Aug 2016
  • Career story

ANU alumnus Stefan Nekvapil says science communication equipped him with the skills he needed for work—and life.

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Friday, 26 Aug 2016
  • Career story

This is the rock-star career of Vijay Boyapati, alumnus of the ANU Mathematical Sciences Institute, and it all started at ANU.

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Thursday, 25 Aug 2016
  • News

An international research project has found human activity has been causing global warming for almost two centuries, proving human-induced climate change is not just a 20th century phenomenon.

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Wednesday, 24 Aug 2016
  • Student profile

John Love, in the final years of his life, decided to establish a scholarship for deserving students whose circumstances might prevent them from coming to ANU

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Friday, 19 Aug 2016
  • Research story

ANU led the Australian contribution to the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory in the observation confirming the existence of gravitational waves.

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Friday, 19 Aug 2016
  • News

Open any office door at ANU, and you never know quite what you’ll find inside.

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