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ANU: Restricting access reduces gambling

Gambling rates reduced during the pandemic, but increased once social restrictions were lifted, according to ANU research.

Canberra’s retired academics don’t know when to stop

There’s a saying that if you do what you love, you never work a day in your life and that holds true for many retired academics in Canberra who continue to work well past retirement – for nothing.

Canberra students mourn photography’s demise at hands of AI

While the Australian Government is still thinking about regulating artificial intelligence (AI), these technologies are galloping ahead at an alarming rate, unchecked. New “generative AI” tools such as image generator, Midjourney, have prompted...

Innovative science education programs launched at ANU

The Einstein-First and Quantum Girls programs will “revolutionise” Australian science education and reverse the STEM skills shortage.

The ACT Chief Minister who almost wasn’t

The ACT’s first Chief Minister, Rosemary Follett, almost wasn’t. In a tell-all account of Canberra’s first self government, written by former Chief Minister Gary Humphries, there was a desperate bid by the...

ANU conducts groundbreaking research into earthquakes

ANU researchers are shooting lasers down fibre optic cable to sense and record what’s happening below the Earth’s surface.

Hello Canberra, it’s gravity calling

The Australian National University (ANU) has weighed in on the global hunt for gravitational waves with a remote control to the best gravitational wave observatory on the planet

ANU scientists receive cancer research grants

No new targeted therapies for brain cancer have been developed for 30 years, but ANU research could lead to new treatments.

Canberra professor lauds progress in cancer clinical trials

Today celebrates International Clinical Trials Day. We speak to Professor Paul Craft AM, of ANU and the Canberra Hospital's Cancer Centre.

ANU holds roundtable for Indigenous water rights

First Nations Australians have access to more than half of Australia through native title and land rights, but to 0.2% of water allocations.

It’s a long way to payday if you want to rock and roll

Imagine starting work, then clocking off, then discovering you’ve barely made enough money to cover petrol for the drive home. That’s the reality facing many musicians and the subject of an ANU...

Quad leaders must take direct action to combat ransomware: ANU

Tech experts from The Australian National University (ANU) have created a blueprint so Australia and other Quad nations – India, Japan and the United States – aren’t held hostage to ransomware attacks.

ANU scientists reveal prehistoric predator’s last meal

For the first time in Australia, scientists at the ANU have used X-rays to look inside the gut of a prehistoric marine reptile.

Young people wanted for ANU gambling study

ANU researchers want to hear from 18- to 25-year-olds who wager, bet, or gamble online, or spend money on gambling features in video games.

ANU scientists discover weapon against flesh-eating bacteria

A clever protein inside the immune system could be used as a “weapon” against a common bacterium that causes deadly flesh-eating disease.

ANU: COVID worsened Indigenous energy insecurity

More than 10,000 remote Indigenous households that prepay for electricity were disconnected, even when ordered to stay at home and isolate.

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