A new material platform has enabled scientists to create photon pairs whose entanglement can be tuned, from a layer thinner than a human hair. The photon pairs are created by a metasurface made of ...

New research that used our world-leading geochronology facility at ANU, shows how communities that lived in western Iran about 11,000 years ago gave gifts from their travels in cultural practices ...

Research looking at the governance of Indigenous cultural knowledge, turning waste into climate-friendly fertilisers, investigating our planet’s core and finding new ways to save species from the ...

By Tanya M. Smith, Griffith University and Ian Stuart Williams, Australian National University The climate we live in affects our lives in profound ways: hot summers, cold winters, dry spells and wet ...

Join renowned paediatrician and child advocate Dr Sue Packer AO as she shares powerful insights from over 50 years of championing children’s rights and wellbeing in this public lecture.

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 ...

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

It’s gob-smacking that bioluminescent fungi are real. Glow in the dark mushrooms feel like a fairy house straight from Enid Blyton’s imagination, not something that genuinely exists in our forests.

ANU ecologists and a cohort of New South Wales Local Aboriginal Land Councils are joining together on a project to re-introduce cultural burning in box-gum grassy woodlands and to monitor the ...

For an ANU biologist, what started as a routine glance at a butterfly specimen has ended with the discovery of a masterful deception, decades in the making.

By connecting climate change to its material impact on the world, scientists have transformed an observation into a policy problem.

A doughnut-shaped region thousands of kilometres beneath our feet within Earth’s liquid core has been discovered by ANU scientists, providing new clues about the dynamics of our planet’s magnetic ...