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Ants on pins

Island ant communities show signs of unseen ‘insect apocalypse’

A new approach to analysing museum specimens has revealed a massive decline in Fiji’s native ant species since the arrival of humans to the islands

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Tuesday, 31 Jan 2017
  • News

ANU researcher Dr Sarang Kim has received the Hazel Hawke Research Grant in Dementia Care from the Alzheimer’s Australia Dementia Research Foundation for her project Dementia Stigma Reduction

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Monday, 30 Jan 2017
  • News

Three ANU postgraduate science students have received a financial boost that will enable them to do further research into their areas of expertise for the next three years.

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Friday, 27 Jan 2017
  • News

ANU warmly welcomes the appointment of physicist Dr Robert N. Shelton as the new President of the Giant Magellan Telescope Organization.

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Friday, 27 Jan 2017

Distinguished ANU professors and high-profile alumni have been recognised for their contribution to Australian society in the 2017 Australia Day Honours.

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Wednesday, 25 Jan 2017
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Crabs that invade smaller crab species’ habitat overpower and evict incumbents from their burrows, but the two species ultimately co-exist.

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Tuesday, 24 Jan 2017

ANU physicists have invented a tiny device that creates the highest quality holographic images ever achieved.

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Chris Horan
Tuesday, 24 Jan 2017
  • Career story

Almost everyone, at some point in their career, suffers from workplace stress. Chris decided to make a change, not just to his working life, but to yours too.

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Monday, 23 Jan 2017
  • Analysis and opinion

People collapse, buildings collapse, economies collapse and even entire human civilizations collapse.

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Friday, 20 Jan 2017
  • Analysis and opinion

Researchers at ANU have called for the transition from native timber harvesting to plantation forests with the biggest mainland sawmill in Australia under threat of collapse.

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