A bird protection tool designed by ANU researchers has taken out one of the nation's top sustainability prizes, a NSW Banksia Award.

In our land of drought and flooding rains, better water management should feature in every federal budget. Thankfully, the budget handed down by Treasurer Jim Chalmers on Tuesday delivers it.

Seismologists from ANU have developed a new method to scan the deep interior of planets in our solar system to confirm whether they have a core at the heart of their existence.  

One of the world's leading physicists who is helping unlock the Universe's most complex mysteries is the first Australian to win the prestigious Blaise Pascal Medal in recognition of her incredible research and leadership in science.

The atmospheric concentrations of methane are now almost triple pre-industrial levels, and rising swiftly. Cutting it back would significantly help limit climate change.

The identification of new psychoactive substances – drugs made to resemble established illicit drugs – presents a major challenge when pill-testing.

Getting meaningful environmental measures into the wellbeing budget won’t be easy. And tokenism won’t do.

Helen Osmond has watched the ins and outs of one superb fairy-wren population for three decades.

Scientists from ANU have detected a mysterious new recreational drug not seen in Australia before, nor toxicologically described anywhere else.