A group of US scientists this week proposed an unorthodox scheme to combat global warming: creating large clouds of Moon dust in space to reflect sunlight and cool the Earth. Unfortunately, but also unsurprisingly, the story of Moon dust reflection isn’t as simple as it seems.

In research published this week, researchers have shown Goffin’s cockatoos can take the next leap of logic beyond tool use, by carrying a set of tools they’ll need for a future task.

To mark International Day of Women and Girls in Science, the joint conveners of ANU Women* in Physics, Astro and Engineering, Dr Noemie Bastidon and Dr Julie Tournet, were in conversation with ANU alumni Professor Melanie Campbell from the University of Waterloo.

Just half a per cent of the available tree hollows in Canberra’s woodlands are suitable nests for superb parrots.

This International Day of Women and Girls and Science we are looking back at stories that highlight the achievements of women in science and some of the barriers they face.

Areas set aside by the Victorian Government as part of plan to conserve 35 threatened species fall well short in their goal to stop the extinction of the state’s most at-risk wildlife, according to a study by ANU researchers.

The Black Summer bushfires of 2019-20 were cataclysmic: a landmark in Australia’s environmental history. We must use Black Summer as an opportunity to learn – and make fundamental changes. Here are six lessons to heed.

To find out why black holes twinkle, researchers piggy-backed on NASA’s asteroid defence effort to watch more than 5,000 of the fastest-growing black holes in the sky for five years.

The issue of AI authorship is now clearly on the minds of commercial academic publishers. Many have asked whether ChatGPT could be considered an academic author.