A new study has shown that the female Superb Fairy-Wren has the ability to change the size of the eggs it lays in a biological feat which could buffer against the effects of climate change.

By 2050, the population of the world will be nine billion. That’s a lot of mouths to feed.

Researchers at The Australian National University (ANU) have found a new breeding population of the critically endangered regent honeyeater.

Five per cent of the Australian population suffer from autoimmune diseases, such as multiple sclerosis and lupus

It might be hard to believe, but scientists currently rely on one type of coral found in one place only—the Bahamas—as a source of the ingredients to make important anti-cancer and anti-malaria drugs.

Experimental physicist Dr Bram Slagmolen has created a tool that measures with unimaginable precision

On James Ross Island, off the northern Antarctic Peninsula, Dr Nerilie Abram from the ANU Research School of Earth Sciences stands in the path of the battering westerly gales, and collects an ice core.

It took a mathematician to find an answer to how life on Earth actually began, and to discover the answer in the most surprising place: the hairdresser’s.

It was Professor Brian Schmidt who received a Nobel Prize, but it was technology, he says, that facilitated the discovery.