ANU physicists are among the team that has won the $3 million Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics for the first detection of gravitational waves.

Researchers have found large old trees need greater long-term protection from the threat climate change and logging if they are to be saved for future generations.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.