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Tuesday, 10 May 2022

The biologists and the linguists at ANU might sit on different sides of the campus, but Professor Lindell Bromham from the ANU Research School of Biology says it wasn’t difficult to see the benefits in the two disciplines coming together.

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Thursday, 14 Apr 2022

Mention the superb lyrebird, and you’ll probably hear comments on their uncanny mimicry of human sounds, their presence on the 10 cent coin, and their stunning tail. Far less known – but equally, if not more, impressive – is the Albert’s lyrebird.

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Tuesday, 08 Mar 2022

A new study from researchers at The Australian National University (ANU) rolls back the curtain on half a century of evidence detailing the impact of climate change on more than 60 different bird species.

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Tuesday, 04 Jan 2022

Have you opened your post-lockdown wardrobe, only to discover some of your beautiful summer clothes have holes in them? You’re probably blaming clothes moths but the real culprits are the larvae (caterpillars).

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Friday, 17 Dec 2021

A world-first study warns 1,500 endangered languages could no longer be spoken by the end of this century.

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Friday, 17 Dec 2021

Deeply entrenched scientific beliefs that for more than a century have explained why more men than women are high achievers because of biology are not backed up by evidence, according to new research.

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Events

4 Dec 2020 | 4 - 5pm

Individuals can benefit by varying their investment in offspring. The optimal amount of investment may vary in relation to both climatic conditions and social conditions (such as the number of carers for the offspring).

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27 Nov 2020 | 4:30 - 5pm

Why do organisms look the way they do? Why do they live where they do? Wy are some groups more diverse than others? These basic questions are often addressed at different scales using a particular set of methods.

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Logo for the International Ion Channel Aquaporin Workshop, featuring the acronym "iCAQP" in stylized letters and a graphic of colorful spheres arranged around a cross.
23 Nov 2020 | 3pm

Workshop online webinar over 4 days:
Monday 2nd November 4-6pm
Tuesday 10th November 4-6pm
Monday 16th November 4-7pm
Monday 23rd November 3-7p

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Logo for the International Ion Channel Aquaporin Workshop, featuring the acronym "iCAQP" in stylized letters and a graphic of colorful spheres arranged around a cross.
16 Nov 2020 | 4pm

Workshop online webinar over 4 days:
Monday 2nd November 4-6pm
Tuesday 10th November 4-6pm
Monday 16th November 4-7pm
Monday 23rd November 3-7p

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A black and white patterned longhorn beetle on a green leaf.
13 Nov 2020 | 4 - 5pm

The taxonomy and phylogenetic relationships of longhorn beetles have been debated for decades, with neither morphological nor molecular data reaching a consistent solution. 

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