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Developing fuel moisture sensing satellites for fire management with Indigenous knowledge

In this collaborative project, researchers are working to develop future satellites for fire management by using traditional Indigenous knowledge and collaborating on remote sensing technology to help manage wildfires.

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Wednesday, 27 Apr 2016
  • Student profile

Lachlan Arthur had the pick of any university but he chose ANU and the PhB program. No longer does Lachlan plan to return to country South Australia and work as a GP, but he instead hopes to make a global impact as a physician-researcher.

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Tuesday, 26 Apr 2016
  • Research story

Researchers have found large old trees need greater long-term protection from the threat climate change and logging if they are to be saved for future generations.

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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

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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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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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
  • News

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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