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Lucy Gloag graduated from Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand with her BSc/BCA and BSc(Hons). She completed her PhD at the University of New South Wales in 2018 on the synthesis and ...

Since his arrival at ANU in 2018, Dr Giuseppe Barca from the ANU SynBio Initiative and the ANU College of Engineering, Computing and Cybernetics has devoted his research to deploying the world’s ...

While people in these regions might say they are living to be 100 or even 110, there is simply no evidence for their age. Dr Newman has tracked down 80 percent of the people in the world who are over ...

While ghost mushrooms usually luminesce for around 22 hours a day, the peak of the light emission happens at night. “You just don’t see it in the day because there is too much other light drowning it ...

Some wrens are calm, some are bold, a few are doddery. Helen says a wren can live to the ripe old age of thirteen years. Although, in reality they’re lucky if they get a third of that lifespan.

By connecting climate change to its material impact on the world, scientists have transformed an observation into a policy problem. The history of this discussion demonstrates the power of changing ...

While the sample appeared similar to the ketamine standard, Cassie’s trained eye saw something was off. The rate at which chemical X ran its race (known as the retention time) was similar, but its ...

There's a growing movement to decolonise mathematics. Professor Rowena Ball explains what this means and why it is important.

The Australian National University (ANU) transdisciplinary scientist Dr Ehsan Nabavi has been named as one of Australia’s best emerging thinkers and communicators, being selected for the 2023 ABC TOP ...

Revealing a fake. Skip forward seventy-two years, and we’re back in Braby’s lab at the Australian National University. While there wasn’t one of those yellow tags on the Flame Hairstreak specimen in ...

Scientists have detected radio signals from hot gas surrounding a supermassive black hole that existed 12.9 billion years ago, according to new research from an international team of scientists ...