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A national network of earthquake detectors is connecting Canberra kids with real science, writes TEGAN DOLSTRA.

A world-first project led by ANU researchers is looking at whether pristine rainforest can be preserved from oil extraction, writes SARINA TALIP.

Lorena Kanellopoulos tells KATHARINE PIERCE why getting published is no longer the expensive and lengthy process it used to be.

Researchers are locked in a battle to beat a global killer, but the malaria parasite has been around for millennia and still has some deadly tricks up its sleeve, writes CASEY HAMILTON. Alexander Maier's sterile, air-conditioned research laboratory  is in stark contrast to the hot, humid and often unhygienic environment in which malaria is common.

The Internet is the latest battleground in the fight against the nation's looming crisis of mental disorders, writes SIMON COPLAND. Australia is facing a mental health crisis. Around one in five Australians suffer some form of mental disorder each year and mental disorders now account for 13 per cent of the total disease burden in Australia.

Two ANU political experts have helped the Northern Territory Government replace an unfair electoral system.

SARINA TALIP takes a journey into the not so distant future, where artificial intelligence makes life less of a chore and computers can recognise objects.

Life-saving medical research has received a major boost today, with the opening of the final stage of The John Curtin School of Medical Research (JCSMR) at The Australian National University.

Reading between the lines of China's 'official story' will be a lot easier thanks to a new book from The Australian National University.

Celebrated Indigenous Hawaiian artist Carl Pao is taking new ideas about the Pacific and committing them to canvas, painting a visually stunning and colourful mural at ANU.

The chemistry that makes up the surface of Mars could soon become a little less alien thanks to research from an academic at The Australian National University.

ANU has topped the nation, winning four out of 17 ARC Laureate Fellowships, more than any other Australian university.

Australians in natural disaster hot spots may be willing to pay more for fresh food and faster resupply of utilities - but not for a greater police presence or accommodation of pets in shelters, according to research from The Australian National University.

Television coverage of the shooting at a cinema in Colorado last week may traumatise children who watch it, according to a leading psychiatrist at The Australian National University.

The long-standing relationship between ANU and Questacon has been reaffirmed with the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between the two national institutions.

The Hon Malcolm Turnbull, Federal Member for Wentworth and Shadow Minister for and Broadband, gave this speech at the launch of the Asia & Pacific Policy Studies journal on July 19.

This is an edited version of a speech Ken Henry AC gave to the Crawford School of Public Policy on 18 July as part of the week-long policy futures and innovation event, Policy public: ideas, insights and initiatives until 2020 .

Gaps in the Australian healthcare system could be highlighted and tackled using research from The Australian National University. Francesco Paolucci, Fellow at the Australian Centre for Economic Research, studied how policymakers arrive at decisions on key health policy issues, with a view to identifying gaps.

Sea levels may rise much higher than previously thought, according to scientists from The Australian National University, who have used fossil corals to understand how warmer temperatures in the past promoted dramatic melting of polar ice sheets. Andrea Dutton, formerly of the Research School of Earth Sciences (RSES) in the ANU College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, teamed up with Professor Kurt Lambeck of the RSES to analyse fossil corals around the world from the last interglacial period, 125,000 years ago.

A loose coalition of up to four political parties, or 'rainbow alliance', is the most likely result of Timor-Leste's recent parliamentary elections, write SUE INGRAM and ARMINDO MAIA.

Australia needs to wake up to the sleeping dragon of Asia - before we get burnt. The 21st century will definitely belong to Asia and the rest of the world needs to start preparing for a changed global order, experts have told delegates at ANU Asia Pacific Week 2012.

In the lead up to East Timor's parliamentary elections it's a case of long live the resistance, with some candidates getting up to old party tricks, writes ANDREW McWILLIAM.

The future of the Carbon Tax may be uncertain, but a carbon price is here to stay, according to research from The Australian National University. The research, by Frank Jotzo of the Crawford School of Public Policy in the ANU College of Asia and the Pacific, surveyed the views of Australian large emitters, carbon financiers and carbon market experts.

ANU Vice-Chancellor Professor Ian Young has congratulated all the winners of Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage Grants, especially the ten recipients from ANU.

A major new project led by researchers from The Australian National University will trace the history of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in the defence of Australia.

Gina Rinehart is circling, and salacious tabloid journalism trumps serious analysis. Whatever is the Australian media industry to do, Geoffrey Barker asks in Inside Story .

In a major boost for primary health research, the ANU Australian Primary Health Care Research Institute has announced $7.5 million in funding to establish three new Centres of Research Excellence in primary health care.

Nobel Laureate and molecular biologist Professor Elizabeth Blackburn was today awarded the Curtin Medal for excellence in medical research at The John Curtin School of Medical Research.

The future challenges and strategic opportunities for the rail supply industry are explored in a new report by ANU Enterprise, the commercial arm of The Australian National University.

Wikileaks' founder Julian Assange's bold play of seeking asylum from Ecuador may pay off if the South American country agrees to his request, according to an international law expert from The Australian National University.

The lyrebird is the reigning king of karaoke in the animal world, with not even the birds being mimicked always able to tell the difference between the lyrebirds and the real thing, researchers at The Australian National University have discovered. PhD candidate Anastasia Dalziell led the team from the Research School of Biology, part of the ANU College of Medicine, Biology and Environment, in the study comparing lyrebirds' mimicked birdcalls to the real thing.

Australia's carbon-pricing scheme is a world-leader and shows the way forward for other countries seeking to mitigate carbon emissions, says an expert from The Australian National University.

Science will be opening doors for refugees and taking to the streets via 'Sciencycle', in two new projects funded by Inspiring Australia grants.

The door to the petascale era is being opened for critical Australian research in climate change, the environment, and a host of other areas.