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.

We have heard about the government’s ‘Ideas Boom’. How about making ideas ‘bloom’? With the right policies, Australia could reap the rewards of an agricultural and environmental ‘genomics revolution’.

ANU scientists are part of a global scientific collaboration which has proven the existence of gravitational waves for the first time.

Dr Susana Vaz Nery’s research seeks to minimise diseases that are transmitted through contaminated soil.

Life on other planets would likely be brief and become extinct very quickly, say astrobiologists from ANU Research School of Earth Sciences.

Through Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), Dr Lokuge has participated in deployments that include Afghanistan, Sudan and Uganda.

What is the significance of the Paris Agreement? What does it mean for Australia and the world?