What’s the science behind these ghosts?

Few things are as heart-wrenching as watching our loved ones lose themselves to dementia, a syndrome impairing cognitive functioning. With Alzheimer's disease being the most common form of dementia, the global impact of this condition is staggering, burdening over 55 million people worldwide.

A clever protein inside the immune system could be used as a “weapon" against a common bacteria that in extreme cases is responsible for causing deadly flesh-eating disease, scientists from The Australian National University (ANU) have found.

New nanotechnology developed by ANU physicists will help scientists better understand and fight certain diseases by zooming in on cells and viruses at 10 times the resolution of today’s microscopes.

We now know more about the diet of a prehistoric creature that grew up to two and a half metres long and lived in Australian waters during the time of the dinosaurs, thanks to the power of x-rays.

The state and federal governments' Murray-Darling Basin Plan was intended to preserve environmental flows while allocating set volumes of water to farmers. But it’s not working properly.

A new study shows that we can use existing conservation data to predict which currently unthreatened species could become threatened and take proactive action to prevent their decline before it is too late.

Genetic data could be the key to helping the endangered forty-spotted pardalote on the road to recovery, according to a new study from ANU.

Professor in Indigenous Genomics, Alex Brown, is the first Indigenous member of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) board.