Physicists have discovered radical new properties in a nanomaterial which opens new possibilities for highly efficient thermophotovoltaic cells, which could one day harvest heat in the dark and turn it into electricity.

The rules of good sustainability research need to change and research become more collaborative to ensure complex sustainability challenges are overcome, a new study has found.

If rocks could speak, they would have a lot to say. Even without a voice, they’re great story-tellers. So long as you know how to listen.

The Australian National University (ANU) has won $4.7 million in new funding for renewable energy research, and more than any other university, in the latest round of industry-researcher collaboration funding from the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA).

An ANU scientist is helping set up an international network to use surveillance camera networks and drone data to spy on trees.

An international team of scientists has found evidence of a series of massive supernova explosions near our solar system, which showered the Earth with radioactive debris.

The human brain is by far the most powerful supercomputer on the planet. Understanding how it works will help us fixing it in the event of a neurological disease.

My Masters isn’t directly related to my work; it’s more about being challenged and studying something I’m interested in. But nuclear knowledge, related to mining, storage and defence for example, is going to be more and more in demand in Australia over the next five to twenty years, and it’s important to have people who can understand the concepts and communicate them.

The debate about wind farms is clearly not over yet.