Chemistry

Research stories

Humans are causing the climate to change 170 times faster than natural forces, new research co-led by The Australian National University (ANU) has found.

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Scientists at The Australian National University (ANU) have controlled wave-generated currents to make previously unimaginable liquid materials.

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People who work more than 39 hours a week are putting their health at risk, new research from The Australian National University (ANU) has found. 

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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.

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

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

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

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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.

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

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