Scientists studying the genes that enable tropical butterflies to mimic each other's colourful warning markings find an egg-production gene, cortex, also controls wing colouring.

If we can say that most doctors derive satisfaction from successfully treating their patients, Dr Simon Jiang is taking job satisfaction to the next level.

Researchers at ANU have found a vital supply route that cancer cells use to obtain their nutrients, in a discovery that could lead to new treatments to stop the growth of tumours.

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.