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Australia just committed $207 million to a major satellite program. What is it, and why do we need it?

Landsat Nextis the next generation of an Earth observation satellite program from which Australia has benefited for over 40 years. Here's what it means for Australia.

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Kangaroos grazing
Monday, 23 Oct 2023
  • News

Making better use of kangaroos as a red-meat alternative could help farmers reduce their emissions and make their grazing land more productive, a new report shows.

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Crocodile swimming
Wednesday, 18 Oct 2023
  • Research story

How did saltwater crocodiles snap up Yusuke Fukuda’s heart?

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Wednesday, 18 Oct 2023
  • News

The most comprehensive view of the history of the universe ever created has been produced by ANU researchers.

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Asteroid Psyche (Illustration)
Wednesday, 18 Oct 2023
  • Analysis and opinion

Last week NASA launched a spacecraft to rendezvous with Psyche. The mission will take a six-year, 3.6 billion kilometre journey to gather clues that Earth scientists will interrogate for information about the inaccessible interior of our own world.

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Three researchers in lab
Wednesday, 11 Oct 2023
  • News

A series of clever design tweaks have boosted the efficiency of solar-powered hydrogen production, using cheap and readily available materials.

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Monday, 09 Oct 2023
  • News

Professor Louis Moresi is using software to simulate billions of years of geological evolution.

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Tuesday, 03 Oct 2023
  • News

The dire state of mountain ash (Eucalyptus regnans) forests in Victoria’s Central Highlands has been brought to light in a new study from The Australian National University (ANU) and the World Wide Fund for Nature – Australia (WWF - Australia).

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Woman in control room at observatory
Thursday, 28 Sep 2023
  • Research story

Searching for galaxies from the Anglo-Australian Telescope at Siding Spring Observatory

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Woman in quantum lab
Tuesday, 26 Sep 2023
  • News

Quantum teleportation is already being used in encrypted networks. It allows information to be shared instantly between linked, or entangled, quantum objects. But this new finding makes the system more resilient to noise and loss.

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