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Ultra-precise ANU coatings help power the next generation of gravitational wave detectors

Making the advanced optics inside the most sensitive measurements of gravitational waves ever recorded.

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Thursday, 12 Apr 2018
  • News

The Australian National University (ANU) is taking a lead role in preparing the next international climate assessment.

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Thursday, 12 Apr 2018
  • News

Separating fact from fiction in the age of alternate facts is becoming increasingly difficult, and now a new study has helped reveal why.

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Wednesday, 11 Apr 2018
  • Analysis and opinion

A loophole in the law could spell disaster for threatened species that rely on bush rock.

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Tuesday, 10 Apr 2018
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When friends, family and colleagues talk about Dr Rob Lesslie, one word keeps coming up: worldview.

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Monday, 09 Apr 2018
  • Research story

Ningaloo Reef is one of the most beautiful tourist attractions in Australia, but it is also an important research site.

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Monday, 09 Apr 2018
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The ANU MakerSpace offers specialised tools and “makers crash-course” training to help its participants create, invent, and learn.

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Friday, 06 Apr 2018
  • Analysis and opinion

Decision-makers need to be more aware of the role of disturbances in degrading ecosystems.

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Thursday, 29 Mar 2018
  • News

China’s first space station, Tiangong-1, which is now defunct, is set to crash back to Earth over the coming days.

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Tuesday, 27 Mar 2018
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Dr Brad Tucker from ANU has seen the death throes of a star cocooned inside a dense shell of gas and dust, which ended in a violent explosion.

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