Professor Mark Polizzotto has won an NHMRC award for his global study testing whether a daily tablet could replace chemotherapy for a cancer that kills up to half its patients in Africa.

Five talented researchers from The Australian National University (ANU) have been recognised by the Australian Academy of Science for advancing scientific research.

Superb fairy-wrens are facing “imminent danger” and a well-studied population in Canberra could go extinct in the next 30 years if we don’t urgently curb greenhouse gas emissions, warn an international team of scientists, including researchers.

ANU is partnering with NASA as it prepares to send astronauts back to the moon as part of the Artemis II mission – the space agency’s first crewed mission beyond Earth’s orbit in more than 50 years.

In a new quantum physics experiment, ANU researchers have shown that matter can experience entanglement – an effect Einstein dismissed as ‘spooky action at a distance’.

Quantum physicists at ANU have observed atoms entangled in motion. Their experiment using helium atoms represents a major advancement on similar experiments using photons, which are particles of light.

A team of international researchers have created a first-of-its-kind database of ant data, which combines high-fidelity 3D scans and genetic information for thousands of specimens covering hundreds of species.

An opera singer, a vet and a winemaker walked onto a stage. It sounds like the start of a joke. Instead, what unfolded was a thoughtful discussion about curiosity, collaboration and the unpredictable path to scientific discovery.

Three striking new species of rock-dwelling monitor lizards have been formally described from the savannas of north-eastern Queensland, revealing a previously unrecognised evolutionary lineage.