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The National Computational Infrastructure's new Fujitsu Primergy Supercomputer has debuted at number one in Australia, and number 24 in the world on the TOP500 list of best supercomputers, released overnight.

The Australian National University and Fujitsu Limited have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to strengthen their respective commitments to solving challenging problems of long-term value and global impact.

The media, trade unions and political parties top the list of institutions the public perceives to be the most corrupt and in which they have the least confidence, while 43 per cent of Australians be

A new Facebook application will help shed light on how seniors use online social networks.

New research published today seeks to push the discovery that light can be tied in knots to the next level. Anton Desyatnikov from the Nonlinear Physics Centre at The Australian National University is part of an international team of scientists who are designing knots in light, with potential applications in advanced modern optics, laser beams and even quantum computing.

Australia's understanding of its closest neighbours and place in the region is set to improve with the launch of a new research institute at The Australian National University.

Construction of what will be the world's largest, most-advanced optical telescope has reached a major milestone with fabrication of the first of seven enormous and technically challenging mirrors now complete.

A decade after the Bali bombing in Indonesia , Associate Professor Greg Fealy reflects on what the attack has meant for global jihad and the fight against terror.

Australia and Japan need to reinvest in their 55-year-old bilateral trade agreement and deepen their economic ties if they are to gain from the Asian Century, a leading expert from ANU has warned.

New research challenges the water saving measures that form a key platform of the Australian Government's proposed Murray-Darling Basin Plan, says an academic from The Australian National University.

A new book being launched this week challenges policymakers to re-imagine the role of Indigenous people and practices in managing Australia's environment in the 21st century.

A leading expert on intellectual property and consumer rights at The Australian National University has called for a range of legislative and regulatory changes to help stop unjustified price discrimination against Australian consumers of digital products.

The world's coral reefs have become a zombie ecosystem, neither dead nor truly alive, and are on a trajectory to collapse within a human generation according to an academic from The Australian National University.

Academic staff in the Research School of Psychology at The Australian National University have strongly rejected the view reported in the media today that homosexuality carries with it psychological or biological harm. School Director Professor Don Byrne said there is no scientific evidence at all to support this proposition.

Professor Amin Saikal AM has just released a new and updated edition of his classic work Modern Afghanistan: A History of Struggle and Survival .

Nobel Laureate Professor Brian Schmidt delivered the following speech at Science Meets Parliament at the National Press Club on Tuesday 18 September: Members of Parliament, Senators, Fellow Scientists and Distinguished Guests.

Renowned Cambodian artist Bun Heang Ung has donated 88 original drawings documenting his account of life under the brutal Khmer Rouge regime to The Australian National University.

Researchers in Japan and Poland will get the keys to help unlock the mysteries of our origins thanks to a machine developed by The Australian National University The Polish Geological Institute and t

One of the world's most endangered languages is to be brought into the digital age through the first phone app designed specifically for the documentation of an Australian Indigenous language.

The Australian National University today applauded ACT Labor's election commitment to fund a high profile chair in cancer research, based at The John Curtin School of Medical Research (JCSMR) at ANU.

A new free online program which aims to provide an alternative to hearing aids for people living with acquired hearing loss has been developed from research at The Australian National University.

Professor Chris Goodnow has claimed the prestigious GlaxoSmithKline Award for Research Excellence for his pioneering work on autoimmune diseases.

Presentation to Inaugural Conference of Asia and the Pacific Policy Society (APPS)/Asia and the Pacific Policy Studies Journal by Professor the Hon Gareth Evans AC QC, The Australian National University, Canberra, 7 September 2012.

Australia is in danger of over-simplifying its responses to Chinese investment and missing out on vital economic opportunities, warns a leading expert from The Australian National University.

Researchers from The Australian National University have taken a quantum leap towards developing the next-generation super-fast networks needed to drive future computing. Mr Seiji Armstrong, a PhD researcher from the Department of Quantum Science in the ANU College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, has led a team which has developed a technique that allows for quantum information to travel at higher bandwidth using a beam of light and the phenomenon called entanglement.

Researchers from The Australian National University have shed some light on why some countries are more reluctant to agree to an international carbon price than others. Research by Jack Pezzey from the Fenner School of Environment and Society in the ANU College of Medicine, Biology and Environment, and Professor David Stern and Mr Ross Lambie, both from the Crawford School of Public Policy in the ANU College of Asia and the Pacific, shows why carbon-emissions intensive countries such as Australia and the USA are more likely to prefer certain types of international policies to cut emissions.

Millions of people are in danger of going hungry if the construction of dams on the lower Mekong River in South-East Asia goes ahead, according to research from The Australian National University.

A tax on highly processed foods could help change consumer behaviour about the over consumption of food according to an academic at The Australian National University.

The extraordinary threat by the United Kingdom to revoke the diplomatic protection of the Ecuadorian embassy so that they can arrest Julian Assange is without precedent in modern history and could en

Despite a win in the High Court the Australian Government's plain packaging legislation could still face challenges from tobacco companies at the international level through investor-state disputes, according to an ANU expert.

A ground-breaking new study of suicides in New South Wales has found that drought significantly increases suicide risk among rural males aged 30-49 years. The multi-disciplinary study, led by PhD student Ivan Hanigan from the National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health at The Australian National University in collaboration with ANU researchers Colin Butler and Michael Hutchinson and CSIRO researcher Phil Kokic, took data on suicides in NSW between 1970 and 2007, and compared it with climatic drought information.