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.

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

Any cyclist with a passing familiarity with the science precinct at ANU would know about The Magpies of Linnaeus Way. They are so famous that they even get capital letters, as all celebrities should.

Scientists at ANU are working with researchers in France to develop a new way to detect and monitor breast cancer with a simple blood test.

There is a crippling disease slowly spreading through central and east Africa. It's called konzo and it attacks mainly young women and children, quite suddenly, causing irreversible paralysis of the legs.