Research School of Chemistry's Dr Colin Jackson has been named the ACT Scientist of the Year.

The leadership of the ANU fusion program has always had a strong reputation internationally for scientific excellence.

A new exhibition celebrating the achievements of female scientists has opened in Canberra as part of National Science week and in a bid to attract more women into the profession.

While a full sized invisibility cloak is still science fiction, research into metamaterials have potentially brought us a little closer to bending light to achieve invisibility cloaking.