By Tanya M. Smith, Griffith University and Ian Stuart Williams, Australian National University The climate we live in affects our lives in profound ways: hot summers, cold winters, dry spells and wet ...

The Astronomical Society of Australia (ASA) honoured six astronomers at its Annual Scientific Meeting in Adelaide this week. Professor Naomi McClure-Griffiths and Li Yusen from The Australian National ...

A world-first clinical trial targeting cancers that are currently undruggable will begin later this year, led by a research team from The Australian National University (ANU) and Canberra Health ...

Myrtle rust is one of the worst plant disease threats that Australia faces. This fungal disease can be deadly to native ecosystems and agricultural crops, but it can be hard to detect manually. That’s ...

The issue of eligibility for NDIS funding, for people with a mental health condition, is in large part because there is no single, agreed definition of the term psychosocial disability.

These scientists can 3D-print living cells – a first step to printing our own organs.

For the past 35 years, Emeritus Professor Chennupati Jagadish has pioneered nanotechnology research at the Australian National University (ANU). But when we speak about his election as a Fellow of the ...

Evidence is mounting that a secret lies beneath the dusty red plains of Mars, one that could redefine our view of the Red Planet: a vast reservoir of liquid water, locked deep in the crust.

Scientists have detected radio signals from hot gas surrounding a supermassive black hole that existed 12.9 billion years ago, according to new research from an international team of scientists.

Two new solvent recycler machines, dubbed Molly and Wolly, will save approximately 25 tonnes of carbon dioxide being released into the atmosphere each year from our chemistry labs.

For an ANU biologist, what started as a routine glance at a butterfly specimen has ended with the discovery of a masterful deception, decades in the making.

An "earthquake swarm" iscurrently affecting the Greek island of Santorini and other nearby islands in the Aegean Sea. How exactly does an “earthquake swarm” happen?