Researchers from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery (OzGrav) at the Australian National University (ANU) have engineered new optical coatings for LIGO, the global collaborat...

Researchers have uncovered a key mechanism that helps one of the world's most abundant marine organisms capture carbon, providing new insights into the ocean's role in regulating Earth's climate.

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How RNA isoforms and chemical marks evolve across species remains poorly understood. This study uses direct RNA long-read sequencing across mammals to show that conserved isoforms account for most exp...

Six researchers from the Australian Centre for Excellence in Antarctic Science (ACEAS) have been awarded prestigious Australian Research Council (ARC) Future Fellowships, securing funding to advance n...

Phenomics Australia congratulates Professor Simon Jiang and the entire team at the ANU Centre for Personalised Medicine (CPM) on securing a transformative $4.5 million philanthropic donation […]

Research School of Physics News Item - Michigan Prize honors helicon plasma pioneer Professor Rod Boswell

Professor Christoph Nitsche is on a mission to develop new proteins and peptides to fight infections and cancer.

If you sit in an Australian park or garden for long enough, chances are you might catch a flash of brilliant feathers out of the corner of your eye: the superb fairywren. With its bright blue and soft...

Students in the Research School of Earth Sciences took their science into the kitchen for this year’s Bake Your PhD competition.

Abstract. van der Waals (vdW) ferroelectrics are emerging nonlinear photonic materials that combine large second-order susceptibility χ(2) with heterostruc

ANU chemist and Earth scientist recognised for research excellent and communication in prestigious Young Tall Poppy Awards.

Crustose coralline algae overlying reef structures can reduce coral dissolution, especially at night-time, according to in-situ carbonate chemistry data from the Great Barrier Reef.

Coupling biosynthetic noncanonical amino acid production with genetic code expansion enables site-specific incorporation of azatryptophans into PET-degrading enzymes (PETases). By isosteric single-at...

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This event series is an opportunity for high school and college students to participate in fun and hands-on weekly challenges on a range of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) top...

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A global team has cracked a decades-old mystery, revealing the atomic structures of the molecules in our eyes that allow us to see colours.

Bluetooth lets us share files and listen to music without wires. But how does it work?

Nanobubbles are invisible, mysteriously stable, a thousand times thinner than a human hair, and surprisingly versatile.

Should we stop viewing ignorance only as a problem? In his new book, Emeritus Professor Michael Smithson explores why psychology needs to pay more attention to what we don't know. Arguing that ignoran...