As Australia expands its ambitions in nuclear technologies, Associate Professor Elizabeth Williams says the country is grappling with a question that doesn’t have a simple answer.
Working hard or hardly working? This is the question Joseph Chien hopes to answer when he starts his PhD with the ANU Mathematical Sciences Institute next year.
Dr Colin Jackson from the ANU Research School of Chemistry won the RACI 2015 Rennie Memorial Medal for his chemical science research. His work focus is chemical biology, creating new molecules to treat tuberculosis, counteract agricultural poisoning, and assist green manufacturing.
Distinguished physics Professor Chennupati Jagadish and his wife Vidya have kickstarted a new endowment fund to bring science students and academics from the developing world to study and do research at The Australian National University (ANU).
A remarkably detailed animation of the movement of the densest and coldest water in the world around Antarctica has been produced using data generated on Australia’s most powerful supercomputer, Raijin.
An ANU-led study identified a network of nine genes that alter the onset of hereditary Alzheimer's by up to 17 years. Studying a 5,000-member Colombian family, researchers hope targeting these genes can delay the disease globally.
Besides being lovely to have around, birds fulfil critical roles in ecosystems, so I see their ongoing decline in Australia and elsewhere as a matter of utmost concern.
A high-technology company started by physicists from ANU, QuintessenceLabs wins a prestigious global SINET award for its unbreakable, cutting-edge quantum cyber-security technology.