Scientists have captured the early death throes of supernovae for the first time and found that the universe's benchmark explosions are much more varied than expected.

Australian scientists are in the hunt for the last missing piece of Einstein's General Theory of Relativity, gravitational waves, as the Advanced LIGO Project in the United States comes on line.

ANU Medical School students have raised $9,000 for refugees and asylum seekers with the success of the ANU Med Revue Into the Wards.