Scientists developing fusion energy experiments have solved a puzzle of why their million-degree heating beams sometimes fail, and instead destabilise the fusion experiments before energy is generated.

“For my research project, I’m part of a team looking at climate change that took place 40 to 50 million years ago, when the Earth transitioned from ‘greenhouse’ to ‘icehouse’.

Imagine having a smash-hit YouTube channel with millions of viewers who tune in to watch you talk about your passion.

Professor Gordon Lister is a tectonicist and structural geologist. In other words, a rock-whisperer.

Ecologists have found that Murray crayfish numbers plunged 90 per cent in a high country river after their habitat was lost.

Scientists have harnessed static electricity to control chemical reactions for the first time, in a breakthrough that could bring cleaner industry and cheaper nanotechnology.

Researchers at The Australian National University (ANU) are helping the eastern quoll make a comeback to mainland Australia after its disappearance more than 50 years ago.

A fellowship program at ANU has brought researchers together from diverse fields to collaborate and learn from each other.

Scientists have pinpointed the source of a rare burst of radio waves from the heavens for the first time, identifying the culprit as an elliptical galaxy six billion light years away.