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The University of Adelaide and the University of South Australia are to be combined as one in 2026. 

So how do you start a new university? 

You could look at the most successful universities and see what makes them great. 

Stanford University, just south of San Francisco amid Silicon Valley in one of the great universities. 

Its graduates have created the high-tech companies which we all now rely on. 

But Stanford has a dark history with a veil of silence drawn over anyone speaking about the university’s past, or present operations. 

Sharon Carleton reports. 

The ocean depths may be out of sight, but they play an important role in climate and the cycling of nutrients.

From deep within a mountain in Italy, scientists hope increasingly sophisticated experiments are closing in on the hidden matter of the universe.

For the next big steps in physics many believe it's time for a shake-up of the field's core theories - including those proposed by Einstein himself.

Deep in an abandoned silver mine in Germany, seismometres monitor the song of the Earth - including its most mysterious rumbles.

Just as DNA is unique, it turns out other molecules may also be unique.