Research stories
Discover how science research at ANU is shaping our future.
8 Mar 2017
Physicists have designed a handheld devicethat will use the power of MRI and mass spectrometry to perform a chemical analysis of objects.
13 Feb 2017
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.
10 Feb 2017
Scientists at The Australian National University (ANU) have controlled wave-generated currents to make previously unimaginable liquid materials.
2 Feb 2017
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.
13 Dec 2016
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...
28 Nov 2016
By 2050, the population of the world will be nine billion. That’s a lot of mouths to feed.
18 Nov 2016
Researchers at The Australian National University (ANU) have found a new breeding population of the critically endangered regent honeyeater.
28 Oct 2016
Among the beeping machines of the neonatal intensive care unit, there’s a simple piece of technology that has changed the lives of thousands of families.
28 Oct 2016
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...
28 Oct 2016
Five per cent of the Australian population suffer from autoimmune diseases, such as multiple sclerosis and lupus
28 Oct 2016
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...
28 Oct 2016
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.