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Monty

Beat-nippers

The ANU School of Music is offering early childhood courses to children from birth, improving not just musical talent but imagination, confidence and relationships.

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ANU ranked in world top 50

New bridges across Asia

Perfecting plasma power

New find challenges space theory

Famous rock art older than previously thought

Alumni

SARS sleuth: CK Lee

Higher education reforms bring changes to ANU Act

Faculty's famous faces

The Last Word

Not happy? Blame the economy


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Gina

First Australians fly to fight bird flu

The desperate fight to control the spread of bird flu across Asia and around the world is being spearheaded by graduates, staff and students of a unique ANU program.

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Prising open Mao's revolution

"I had never lost a fight in my life, [but] in those circumstances if I had fought back, my whole family would have been destroyed. So I decided to show them that a man taking a beating could have dignity and prowess..."

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More than an apple a day

Why is it that despite spending a greater proportion of Gross Domestic Product on healthcare than is spent by Korea, Australians’ health is only slightly better than their Korean counterparts?

Bee

Scent-sational source of memory clues

Bees are more sophisticated than you think. Already proving inspirational for automated robotics, now they are going some way to helping us better understand memory.

Fair hearing

Sensory expert Dr Amy Berntson is exploring how the brain receives information from the senses.

Amber

Bliss of the Spiderwoman

Cannibalism amongst one of earth’s most reviled creatures is hardly surprising, but new research at ANU has uncovered a more tender side to spiders.

Green thumbs up

Through an award-winning environmental management program and applications of its research, ANU is helping protect our natural environment.

Beryl

Children conquered Roman hearts

Traditionally, Ancient Rome is remembered for the Colosseum, political intrigue and a ruthlessly-effective military — but a new book by ANU historian Professor Beryl Rawson shows that Romans had a strong notion of family.