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.

An exciting opportunity is available to study the extremes in Australia's variable rainfall.

Its “Wi-Fried?” segment last week raised concerns about the ever-increasing “electronic air pollution” that surrounds us in our daily lives, exploiting a number of age-old, fear-inspiring tropes.

Actor Alan Alda, best known for his starring role in the television series M*A*S*H, has teamed up with ANU to help promote science communication.

We have heard about the government’s ‘Ideas Boom’. How about making ideas ‘bloom’? With the right policies, Australia could reap the rewards of an agricultural and environmental ‘genomics revolution’.