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.

The budget papers say immunisation data collection will be expanded to include school-based adolescent vaccinations and that an adult register will be established from September 1, 2016.

Researchers at The Australian National University (ANU) are studying how ageing affects driving with the aim of promoting road safety, and they are looking for more older drivers to help with the project.

Professor Trevor Ireland from the Research School of Earth Sciences is interested in thinking back billions of years in time.

Professor Chennupati Jagadish and his research team have been growing extremely small wires called nanowires, which can be used to make lasers and solar cells.