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As coronavirus spreads across the globe, new modelling from The Australian National University (ANU) is set to help policymakers respond to the economic costs in the face of a pandemic and as the virus evolves.

The coronavirus crisis highlights the risks of China's grand strategic ambitions and is an opportunity for nations, including Australia, to reduce tensions in the Indo-Pacific region, says a prominent security expert from The Australian National University (ANU).

You've heard about Godzilla, Dracula and Bigfoot, but what about Cacus, the original highway man from hell, the child-chomping Pangkarlangu from Indigenous Australia and Fiji's ghosts of climate change?

The Australian National University Council has called for urgent action to address the growing challenge of climate change.

The environment has rocketed up to either number one or two on the list of worries for about half of Australian voters, according to a new poll from The Australian National University (ANU). The January 2020 ANUpoll also found the greatest drop in support for new coal mines was among Australian adults who voted for the Coalition at last year's Federal Election - from 72 per cent support in June 2019 to 57 per cent in January 2020.

The ferocity, reach and duration of fires that have devastated Australian communities, bush and rural landscapes this summer should not just sound the alarm for a climate emergency, because the situation is much more serious.

A remarkable new project led by researchers at The Australian National University (ANU) will showcase the beauty of the Murray River, and help re-frame the discussion about the waterway's health.

Global trade talks are silent on three of the world's most pressing issues - malnutrition, obesity and climate change - researchers from The Australian National University (ANU) say.

The Australian National University's Distinguished Professor Genevieve Bell has been named the world's inaugural Engelbart Distinguished Fellow by SRI International for her trailblazing work on technology, artificial intelligence and culture.

Dear colleagues, To those of you on campus today, welcome back. It has been a very challenging start to the year for all of us, and while we are doing everything possible to return to normal, conditions in the ACT and NSW will remain changeable for the coming weeks.

Summer is a 'danger period' for food poisoning in Australia, but there are simple steps we can take to reduce the risk, say researchers at ANU.

An ANU researcher has combined the power of music and computer science, to create an instrument to spread Christmas joy throughout the Canberra community.

Scientists from The Australian National University (ANU) have invented a new jelly material that mimics biological matter such as skin, ligaments and bone, and which is very strong, self-healing and able to change shape.

A new book of "ripping yarns" from the Australian goldfields of the mid-1800s has put the tumultuous times and tales surrounding the Eureka Stockade rebellion back into the popular imagination.

More than half of the tipping points that could push the planet towards a hothouse Earth and threaten human civilisation are now "active", a group of leading scientists have warned.

The Victorian Government is in breach of its own forest laws, allowing logging on steep slopes and putting lives at risk, according to researchers from The ANU.

The Australian National University (ANU) will today return over 200 blood samples to the Galiwin'ku community of Elcho Island in East Arnhem Land.

Academics from the School of Art & Design have teamed up with colleagues from the ANU Climate Change Institute on a design project, which takes existing data and communicates the impacts of climate change in a way that people can engage with and better understand.