28 Sep 2022

Winner of the 2022 Ralph Slatyer medal

26 Jul 2022

How do you tell if your plants need water? Recently, I asked this question of a group of about 40 biologists at the Australian National University.

14 Jul 2022

A new study shows Australian magpie-larks may use a ventriloquial illusion to make their vocal duets more threatening.

27 May 2022

The raw material for evolution is much more abundant in wild animals than we previously believed, according to new research.

27 May 2022

To measure the speed of adaptive evolution in the wild, we studied 19 populations of birds and mammals over several decades. We found they were evolving at...

26 May 2022

Professor Ute Roessner AM from The Australian National University (ANU) has been recognised for her exceptional work advancing knowledge in the field of...

10 May 2022

The biologists and the linguists at ANU might sit on different sides of the campus, but Professor Lindell Bromham from the ANU Research School of Biology says...

6 May 2022

Researchers have discovered why malaria parasites are vulnerable to some drug therapies but resistant to others, offering scientists another piece of the...

14 Apr 2022

Winner of the 2021 Ralph Slatyer medal

14 Apr 2022

Mention the superb lyrebird, and you’ll probably hear comments on their uncanny mimicry of human sounds, their presence on the 10 cent coin, and their stunning...

7 Apr 2022

Travel grants offered by RSB and Medical School to undergraduate students to undertake an exchange program at Charles Darwin University in Darwin during July...

28 Mar 2022

Death cap mushrooms don’t actually want to kill us. In fact, mushrooms don’t care about us at all.