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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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A cosmic event captured by NASA.
Tuesday, 26 May 2020
  • News

A new infrared telescope built by ANU will monitor the entire southern sky in search of new cosmic events as they take place.

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Artist's impression of a system of detectors along quantum circuits to monitor light particles. Image: Kai Wang, ANU
Friday, 22 May 2020
  • News

ANU will play a key role in shaping Australia's next-generation technology.

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Building with garden in foreground.
Thursday, 21 May 2020
  • Analysis and opinion

No other event in our lifetimes has brought such sudden, drastic loss to Australia’s biodiversity as the last bushfire season. Governments, researchers and conservationists have committed to the long road to recovery. But in those vast burnt landscapes, where do we start?

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The parched Murray Darling
Wednesday, 20 May 2020
  • Analysis and opinion

A major independent review has confirmed freshwater flows are vital to maintaining the health of the Murray River’s lower lakes.

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Aerial view of ANU campus, showing buildings, ovals and Black Mountain.
Wednesday, 20 May 2020
  • Analysis and opinion

What is a pre-print and how should we be using them?

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Charred Australian landscape post bushfires.
Tuesday, 19 May 2020
  • News

A new study has shown for the first time the full extent of the areas burned by Victorian bushfires over the past two decades.

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Building facade.
Thursday, 14 May 2020
  • Analysis and opinion

We know feral cats are an enormous problem for wildlife, but pet cats are wreaking havoc too.

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Wednesday, 13 May 2020
  • News

Using a group of Australian plants, Hakea, the researchers developed a model to identify features common to threatened species.

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Marika Niihori outside on campus.
Friday, 08 May 2020
  • Student profile

After being awarded a Gates Cambridge Scholarship, ANU Physics student, Marika Niihori, is on her way to Cambridge with a vision to transform healthcare.

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