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A new study  has found that health-related disability has a much larger impact on psychological distress than a diagnosis of cancer by itself. Scientific Director of the 45 and Up Study, Professor Emily Banks of the National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health at ANU says people who have been treated for cancer in the previous month are 50 per cent more likely to have high psychological distress than those who have never had cancer.

A new book that graphically documents the spectacular natural recovery of Victoria's ash forests after the Black Saturday bushfires also argues that wildfires are typical natural disturbances in these environments.

The lasting effects on women who have served in war will be the subject of a new study from researchers at The Australian National University.

Better identification of Indigenous patients in general practices would improve their access to Medicare benefits such as health checks that could help 'Close the Gap', yet many GPs don?t consider et

Being bumbling and butterfingered is often accepted as a normal part of growing up but one researcher from The Australian National University is questioning whether the development of certain senses can play a role in clumsiness.

The Director of the ANU Climate Change Institute Professor Will Steffen has welcomed The Australian Academy of Science publishing a clear statement about climate change. The publication - The Science of Climate Change: Questions and Answers - was prepared by Academy Fellows and other Australian scientists with internationally recognised expertise in climate science.

At the third forum in the Beyond the Spin: federal election discussion series , experts called on both sides of politics to stop the rhetoric and take urgent action on climate change.

With Rudd gone, is the path now clear for the Gillard Government to return a Labor Party or will Abbott pull off a political upset?

The Australian National University has welcomed the announcement of $4.7 million in funding for the next stage in the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellite program, which will include laser testing and results analysis at the University.

If China is to continue its remarkable economic growth it will need to adapt nimbly to huge internal and external changes, according to experts from The Australian National University.

Australia could soon benefit from highly sensitive coloured x-ray imaging and powerful new tools to reveal the structure of materials in unprecedented detail and provide major advances in medicine and technology.

Single mums have on average up to 27 hours a week less free time than a person in a dual income household without children according to new research from The Australian National University. The study, led by Professor Bob Goodin from the University's Research School of Social Sciences, measured how much time people strictly need to spend on various activities of daily life, distinguishing between acts of choice and necessity.

We just don't all come from Adam and Eve. We come from the simple dirt that we walk upon. And out spirits, and our Baiame, our makers, it's all interconnected there.

Mourners gather in Warsaw after the air crash that killed President Lech Kaczynski and other senior officials in April, precipitating the current election campaign.

Prominent ANU scientist Frank Fenner doesn't engage in the skirmishes of the climate wars. To him, the evidence of global warming is in. Our fate is sealed, writes Cheryl Jones in The Australian . Fenner is an authority on extinction. The emeritus professor in microbiology at The Australian National University played a leading role in sending one species into oblivion: the variola virus that causes smallpox.