Birds can quickly learn to recognise alarm calls from different species. Jess Fagan reports.

What happens when a city is rebuilt to present an imagined image of previous centuries? Evana Ho reports.

One baby’s tragic death led to a $20-million trial to prevent similar cases. Tabitha Carvan reports.

Dr Liz Allen, M SocRes ’08, PhD ’15, is a demographer and Postdoctoral Fellow at the ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences. Here she reflects on an important day in her career and the nation’s history.

This exhibition explores the hidden and fascinating world of plants, taking the viewer inside the leaf and over the crop fields through the eyes of plant scientists.

No one would be surprised if I said that there has been a serious decline in the quality of public speech and debate in this country.

I’ve always wanted to be an archaeologist. Growing up outdoors in the New Caledonian bush, I felt surrounded by the materiality of the past – ancient Kanak villages and ruins of the penitentiary.

The world is facing some profound paradigm shifts, thanks to the proliferation of artificial intelligence (AI) and robotic technologies.

A new applied science is being created, a discipline so new it hasn’t been named yet. Rachel Curtis reports.

When ANU student Thomas Larkin travels to New Britain, he discovers his research can make a real difference to the local economy.

A new online tool will allow people to discover trends in voter attitudes towards hot-button issues. Ross Peake reports.

A new film examines the debate about the return of Indigenous remains. Adam Spence reports.

ANU scientists have high hopes their technology will help spell the end of fossil fuels in Australia’s electricity grid. Will Wright reports.

Double Disillusion: The 2016 Australian Federal Election covers the context, key battles and issues in the election campaign, and reports and analyses the results in detail. Emily Hazlewood reports.

Weather and the environment have contributed many words to Australian English, and a lot of these are regionally specific, as Australian National Dictionary editor Dr Amanda Laugesen, BA (Hons) ’97, PhD ’01 explains.

Professor Melanie Nolan writes about murder, sexual abuse, domestic violence and mental disorder in the Australian Dictionary of Biography, a collection of biographies of significant and representative persons in Australian history.

In this lecture, delivered at ANU, Dr Virginia Marshall poses the question: Are Australia's frameworks, laws and policies robust enough to ensure Aboriginal communities can exercise cultural and economic control in light of the principles of self-determination? Here is an edited extract of her speech.

India’s foreign policy elites are grappling with a wide array of strategic challenges as the country’s power rises, writes Dr David Brewster, PhD ’10.

Richard and Celia Anderson, BA ’13, met when he was an exchange student from the UK and they were both on the Burton and Garran Hall residents' committee. After a long-distance relationship, visa application process and two weddings, they recently gave up a smashed avocado lifestyle to buy their first house together.

ANU partnered with the ABC in May to take on its Guinness World Record for the most people stargazing in a country at the same time. Rose Schmedding reports on an event that brought together tens of thousands of people around Australia.

A new residential hall built on the foundations of resilience, humour and a readiness to give back will open its doors in 2019, thanks to the vision of two of Australia's most generous philanthropists. Ross Peake reports.

What do novels and economics papers have in common? Erin Schrieber reports.