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Research stories
Discover how science research at ANU is shaping our future.
Discover how science research at ANU is shaping our future.
A new study led by The Australian National University (ANU) has found that animals and plants may live in warm caves under Antarctica’s glaciers.
Despite being the most abundant protein in the world, we are still getting to the roots of how Rubisco, the protein at the heart of photosynthesis, works.
Scientists from ANU have helped to solve the mystery of what causes exploding stars, which are used to measure the accelerating expansion of the Universe.
Research led by ANU has solved the mystery of how the first animals appeared on Earth, a pivotal moment for the planet without which humans would not exist.
A new study from ANU on a 400 million year old fish fossil has found a jaw structure that is part of the evolutionary lineage linked to humans.
Read about the Warramunga Seismic and Infrasound Research Station of the ANU Research School of Earth Sciences.
It takes a couple of minutes to get from Mars to Earth. Assuming you stick to the speed limit.
In the ANU Fenner School, where economists work alongside ecologists, and hydrologists alongside historians, researchers transform fieldwork into policy.
A new study led by ANU has found that plants are able to forget stressful weather events to rapidly recover.