The Australian Government has listed the iconic Tasmanian swift parrot as critically endangered, lifting its status from endangered, following research by The Australian National University (ANU).

Researchers at ANU have found a vital supply route that cancer cells use to obtain their nutrients, in a discovery that could lead to new treatments to stop the growth of tumours.

ANU physicists are among the team that has won the $3 million Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics for the first detection of gravitational waves.

The Australian National University (ANU) has launched the third stage of its ACT Asbestos Health Study to examine health concerns of people who have lived in a house with loose-fill asbestos insulation.

Around one in five Australians aged 45 to 74 are at high risk of heart attack or stroke within the next five years but almost one million of them are not receiving the currently recommended combination of medications, a major new study has found.

Chaitanya is currently working on her PhD at the Mathematical Sciences Institute at ANU. She’s looking at ways of modelling gravitational wave signatures and investigating how the process can be made more efficient.

The Australia Labor Party has announced a new climate change policy ahead of the federal election.

Lachlan Arthur had the pick of any university but he chose ANU and the PhB program. No longer does Lachlan plan to return to country South Australia and work as a GP, but he instead hopes to make a global impact as a physician-researcher.

Researchers have found large old trees need greater long-term protection from the threat climate change and logging if they are to be saved for future generations.