Chemistry

Research stories

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.

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Computer model of neurons firing in a brain

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.

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Ecologists have found that Murray crayfish numbers plunged 90 per cent in a high country river after their habitat was lost.

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Scientists have harnessed static electricity to control chemical reactions for the first time, in a breakthrough that could bring cleaner industry and cheaper nanotechnology.

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A fellowship program at ANU has brought researchers together from diverse fields to collaborate and learn from each other.

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Scientists have pinpointed the source of a rare burst of radio waves from the heavens for the first time, identifying the culprit as an elliptical galaxy six billion light years away.

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We have heard about the government’s ‘Ideas Boom’. How about making ideas ‘bloom’? With the right policies, Australia could reap the rewards of an agricultural and environmental ‘genomics revolution’.

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ANU scientists are part of a global scientific collaboration which has proven the existence of gravitational waves for the first time.

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