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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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Friday, 22 Apr 2016

A loud group of ANU students are hurling plastic bottles from the Heavy Ion Accelerator Facility on campus.

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Tuesday, 19 Apr 2016
  • News

The rules of good sustainability research need to change and research become more collaborative to ensure complex sustainability challenges are overcome, a new study has found.

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Tuesday, 19 Apr 2016
  • News

Physicists have discovered radical new properties in a nanomaterial which opens new possibilities for highly efficient thermophotovoltaic cells, which could one day harvest heat in the dark and turn it into electricity.

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Friday, 15 Apr 2016

If rocks could speak, they would have a lot to say. Even without a voice, they’re great story-tellers. So long as you know how to listen.

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Thursday, 14 Apr 2016

The Australian National University (ANU) has won $4.7 million in new funding for renewable energy research, and more than any other university, in the latest round of industry-researcher collaboration funding from the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA).

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Tuesday, 12 Apr 2016
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An ANU scientist is helping set up an international network to use surveillance camera networks and drone data to spy on trees.

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Thursday, 07 Apr 2016
  • Research story

An international team of scientists has found evidence of a series of massive supernova explosions near our solar system, which showered the Earth with radioactive debris.

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Computer model of neurons firing in a brain
Wednesday, 06 Apr 2016
  • Research story

The human brain is by far the most powerful supercomputer on the planet. Understanding how it works will help us fixing it in the event of a neurological disease.

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Wednesday, 06 Apr 2016
  • Student profile

My Masters isn’t directly related to my work; it’s more about being challenged and studying something I’m interested in. But nuclear knowledge, related to mining, storage and defence for example, is going to be more and more in demand in Australia over the next five to twenty years, and it’s important to have people who can understand the concepts and communicate them.

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