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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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Tuesday, 28 Jun 2016
  • Student blog

Canberra might be silent at times, but student life is humming.

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Thursday, 23 Jun 2016

The Australian National University (ANU) has welcomed a new collaboration with the Australian Government for a new facility to help grow Australia’s cyber-security workforce and Science Technology Engineering and Maths (STEM) capabilities.

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Tuesday, 21 Jun 2016
  • Research story

A bright energy future in Australia depends on greater policy agreement between all political parties, Ken Baldwin writes.

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Tuesday, 21 Jun 2016
  • News

Researchers at The Australian National University (ANU) have found the current management practices in the Mountain Ash forests of Victoria’s Central Highlands don’t stack up economically.

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Friday, 17 Jun 2016
  • News

You’re in a forest of the tallest flowering trees in the world, surrounding an ancient volcano. Sparkling waterfalls topple over its rim, against a backdrop of rocky, jagged peaks.

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Friday, 17 Jun 2016
  • Research story

Scientists made headlines around the world earlier this year when they confirmed the existence of gravitational waves.

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Thursday, 16 Jun 2016
  • News

A new national centre to research cognitive health, to be based at ANU, has been launched to help Australian researchers work to prevent cognitive decline.

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Thursday, 16 Jun 2016
  • Student profile

When Mae Noble was working on coral reef ecology in the sunny Caribbean, she probably didn’t foresee a future where she’d be snorkeling in the freezing Murray-Darling Basin, looking for endangered crayfish.

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Wednesday, 15 Jun 2016
  • News

Two volunteer astronomers have had a galaxy cluster named after them after finding the galaxy in an international citizen science project co-led by ANU.

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