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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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

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 ...

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.

For the past thirty years, Helen has been undertaking fieldwork for a project following the fairy-wrens of the botanic gardens, giving her a unique view of their complex lives. She confesses that she ...

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.

If you want to improve your understanding of kangaroo personality, one of the best ways to achieve this is with a remote-controlled car and some smooth jazz. Apparently.

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

The identification of new psychoactive substances – drugs made to resemble established illicit drugs – presents a major challenge when pill-testing.