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ANU has supported the publication of nine new children's fiction books in the Aboriginal language, Kriol, written and illustrated by Indigenous women from the remote Binjari community near Katherine in the Northern Territory.

Research shows that women experience long-term negative effects on their careers and earnings as a result of periods of leave from work taken to care for children.

A new study from The Australian National University (ANU) has challenged the notion that some nations' citizens are happier than others, finding that inequalities within nations have a greater influence on people's happiness. The study's author Dr Richard Burns said the findings questioned the usefulness and validity of comparisons of happiness between nations.

A new research project from The Australian National University (ANU) has uncovered more than 21,000 forgotten novels, novellas and short stories, including thousands of unknown Australian works, published in newspapers in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The collection includes seven rediscovered titles from well-known writer Catherine Martin, author of the acclaimed 1890 novel The Australian Girl .

An urban environment expert at ANU has warned that city councils acting alone to address climate change, in the absence of an evidence-based systems approach, can have unintended consequences.

New research from The Australian National University (ANU) and ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science suggests natural rainfall variation is so great that it could take a human lifetime for significant climate signals to appear in regional or global rainfall measures.

Experts from accross the ANU have shed some light on some of the key issues for Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's Washington DC visit to meet with US President Donald Trump.

Researchers at The Australian National University (ANU) have designed a new type of intelligent system based on deep learning that can learn to solve decision-making problems, including problems more complex than it has been trained to solve.

The abundance of the different elements in a star depends primarily on the structure and behaviour of atomic nuclei. New research involving ANU has, for the first time, demonstrated a long-theorised nuclear effect, in a feat that will help scientists understand how stars evolve and produce elements such as gold and platinum.

The Australian National University (ANU) will help reduce its carbon footprint and its reliance on the electricity grid with the installation of ANU-invented solar panels on the rooftops of seven buildings around campus.

Australian interest rates should remain at record lows in early 2018 but the economy may need higher interest rates by the middle of the year, The Australian National University (ANU) RBA Shadow Board has found.

A team of Australian scientists, including researchers from ANU, have found a new way to use the telecommunications network to synchronise radio telescopes, which help scientists peer into deep space.

ANU will play a major role in the Taipan galaxy survey, which will for the first time measure the current expansion rate of the Universe with one per cent precision.

A new study led by ANU has found that the building blocks of Buckingham Palace in London and many other iconic buildings were made by microbes that lived up to 200 million years ago during the Jurassic period. The material, known as oolitic limestone, is a popular building material around the world and is almost completely made of millimetre-sized spheres of carbonate called ooids.

New research from The Australian National University (ANU) has found genetic evidence that critically endangered swift parrots, which breed all over Tasmania and on predator-free islands, form a single nomadic population at high risk of extinction.

People sometimes think that in those days if you lived to 40 that was about as good as it got. But that's not true.

ANU will host a major forum in 2018 on national indigenous policies and governance, taking in the lessons from First Nations around the world and including participation from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Federal politicians.

The map of the southern sky we've released to the world today is the best ever created, but this is only the beginning of a five-year program to capture it in all its splendour.

The NHMRC funding demonstrates how internationally renowned research at ANU was assisting people nationally and across the globe The Australian National University (ANU) has won $12.8 million in the latest round of National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) funding.

Kwaussie:  a person who is a dual citizen of Australia and New Zealand; a New Zealander living in Australia; a person of Australian and New Zealand descent.

As our population ages, the number of people with dementia will increase, but an active lifestyle offers real opportunities for reducing dementia risk.

The new image captured by CSIRO's Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder telescope reveals more gas around the edges of the galaxy, indicating a very dynamic past for the Small Magellanic Cloud.

As Australia grapples with the challenge of securing its energy supply into the future, our study shows that we can make the switch to affordable and reliable clean power.

While Australia got rich off the exports of its phosphate empire: wheat, dairy and meat, Banaba was being systematically ravaged.

ANU experts have given their opinion on today's historic Australian Marriage Law Postal Survey result and its implications for Australia.

ANU has won $24 million in Australian Research Council (ARC) funding for 58 research projects across the University. In the latest ARC funding round announced by Education Minister the Hon Simon Birmingham, ANU won funding for 20 Discovery Early Career Research Awards (DECRAs), 38 Discovery Projects, and three Linkage Infrastructure Equipment and Facilities (LIEF) grants.