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Scientists have found a release of carbon dioxide stored deep in the ocean helped warm the planet and bring it out of the last ice age.

Parliament's decision to pass an intellectual property bill will help Australia fight major outbreaks of diseases overseas and could save millions of lives, Australian National University (ANU) international property expert Dr Matthew Rimmer said.

Nobel laureate and ANU astrophysicist Professor Brian Schmidt AC has made the first donation to a new United States-based ANU charitable foundation.

Scientists have for the first time constructed a detailed record of carbon dioxide fluctuations from the Pliocene epoch, around three million years ago, when the Earth was most recently warmer than today. The team of scientists from the UK and Australia used the new data to estimate the sensitivity of climate to increasing levels of carbon dioxide.

Planetary scientists have calculated that there are hundreds of billions of Earth-like planets in our galaxy which might support life. The new research, led by PhD student Tim Bovaird and Associate Professor Charley Lineweaver from The Australian National University (ANU), made the finding by applying a 200 year old idea to the thousands of exo-planets discovered by the Kepler space telescope.

The RBA Shadow Board continues to recommend with confidence that the cash rate be held at its current level of 2.5 per cent The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) should keep interest rates on ho

ANU Heritage Officer Amy Jarvis and Director of the Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics Professor Matthew Colless inspect the Director's Residence at Mount Stromlo.

Preliminary research into the relationship between pornography and genital satisfaction has found women are generally content and were not considering drastic cosmetic surgery to their genitals. The findings contradict the popular belief about the increasing incidence of labiaplasty, and the theory that pornography is the main driver of surgery.

The University has appointed prominent academic and social researcher Professor Catherine Waldby as Director of the Research School of Social Sciences (RSSS).

A decade after the Boxing Day tsunami wiped out seaside villages across Aceh, the Indonesian province is still suffering major problems.

With summer in full swing in Australia and the ever-present threat of drought, ANU researcher Dr Shé Hawke says now is the time to truly understand and appreciate water.

Professor Thomas Preiss discusses gene networks during stem cell reprogramming with his JCSMR colleagues Dr Jen Clancy and Dr Hardip Patel.

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The collaboration will transform the way agricultural and environmental research and innovation is conducted in Australia The ANU and CSIRO have joined forces in a new collaborative precinct to help build a sustainable future for the environment, agriculture and global food supplies.

An ANU mathematician has developed a new way to uncover simple patterns that might underlie apparently complex systems, such as clouds, cracks in materials or the movement of the stockmarket. The method, named fractal Fourier analysis, is based on new branch of mathematics called fractal geometry. The method could help scientists better understand the complicated signals that the body gives out, such as nerve impulses or brain waves.

Scientists have released details of a raft of new chemicals with potent anti-malarial properties which could open the way to new drugs to fight the disease. A new paper in PNAS is the third published recently by a group at the Australian National University (ANU). The group has collaborated with scientists from around the globe to uncover potential ammunition in the fight against malaria.

Scientists have confirmed a new bird species found in the tropical rainforests on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. The Sulawesi Streaked Flycatcher ( Muscicapa sodhii ) lives in the forest canopy of the rugged hills of Sulawesi, and has heavily streaked underparts and relatively short wings. Ding Li Yong, a PhD student at the Fenner School of Environment and Society, was part of an international team which described the bird as a new species.

Australia has announced a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with top trading partner China after 10 years of trade negotiations.

Waiting times to see preferred GPs in the bush are double those of Australia's city dwellers. Analysis of new data from the Medicine in Australia, Balancing Employment and Life (MABEL) survey shows Australians living in rural areas waited an average of 6.0 days to see their preferred GP in 2013 compared to 3.1 days in metropolitan areas.

The University and the ACT Government have announced the appointment of distinguished medical researcher Professor Ross Hannan as the inaugural Centenary Chair in Cancer Research.

Dr Julia Ellyard has been presented with the inaugural Judith Whitworth Fellowship for Gender Equality in Science at The Australian National University (ANU).

Physicists at ANU have engineered a spiral laser beam and used it to create a whirlpool of hybrid light-matter particles called polaritons. "Creating circulating currents of polaritons - vortices - and controlling them has been a long-standing challenge," said leader of the team, theoretician Dr Elena Ostrovskaya, from the Research School of Physics and Engineering.

The United States and China have struck a new deal to limit greenhouse gas emissions, with China committing to a cap for the first time and the US planning deeper emissions cuts of up to 28 per cent by 2025.

Fuel subsidies in countries such as Venezuela and Indonesia are fuelling high road death rates, and around 35,000 road deaths could be avoided each year by the removal of global fuel subsidies, a new study from The Australian National University (ANU) has found. The study, co-authored by ANU Crawford School's Dr Paul Burke and Dr Shuhei Nishitateno, used data for 144 countries from 1991-2010 to examine how fuel price changes affect road safety.

A new agreement between the ANU and the National University of Malaysia (UKM) will deepen links between Australia and Malaysia, and boost the studies of Malaysia in both Australia and around the globe. Witnessed by Malaysia Deputy Prime Minister YAB Tan Sri Dato' Haji Muhyiddin Bin Haji Mohd Yassin, the Memorandum of Understanding was signed by ANU Vice-Chancellor Professor Ian Young AO in a ceremony on Wednesday.

New research has found Mountain Ash forests provide more value to the community and the global climate when protected and not logged.

National Psychology Week 2014, from 9 to 15 November, aims to increase public awareness of how psychology can help people and communities lead healthier, happier and more meaningful lives.

The ANU will lead new research to improve the public discourse on Indigenous issues, and to safeguard the cultural language of the people of the Western Desert, under new Australian Research Council (ARC) grants.

The ANU has won more than $35 million in prestigious Australian Research Council (ARC) grants for 90 projects, enabling world-class research across the university.

Farmers who use plant varieties that become invasive weeds should pay a levy to cover any environmental management costs under a plan put forward by researchers at The Australian National University (ANU).

The incidence of bowel cancer is dramatically lower after screening, a new report has found. Research involving 200,000 people found that people who had had bowel cancer screening had a 44 per cent lower risk of developing the disease in the four years following screening.

The odds are building against any change in official interest rates on Melbourne Cup day, the Australian National University RBA Shadow Board has found.