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9 May 2017
the tiniest insect is ... more computationally smart and a more competent actor in complex natural environments than anything we can presently build Ecological...
9 May 2017
I have been extremely fortunate in having had very many highly talented people through the lab, and the successes that the lab has had are very much due to...
8 May 2017
Plant scientist Professor Susanne von Caemmerer has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in the UK, the longest standing scientific...
2 May 2017
ANU biologists have named an unlikely pair of plants after Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito, the stars of the 1988 movie Twins.
24 Apr 2017
Perched 30m above the Daintree Rainforest, Australia’s latest piece of high-tech environmental surveillance kit is keeping watch. 24 hours a day the...
13 Apr 2017
Legumes are an interesting plant to study due to their symbiotic relationship with nitrogen fixing bacteria called Rhizobia, which are housed within...
13 Apr 2017
The early years of Biological Sciences at ANU are documented in 'The Making of The Australian National University' by Stephen Foster and Margaret...
13 Apr 2017
In 1978, Adrienne Hardham, Brian Gunning and Joanne Hughes published several papers about the mechanics of root meristem function and cell division in...
13 Apr 2017
Carboxysomes are polyhedral protein micro-compartments in cyanobacteria which concentrate CO2 and increase the efficiency of carbon fixation. In 1993, RSBS...
11 Apr 2017
The transformation of green, photosynthetic algae from their original simple aquatic life to advanced terrestrial plants was a key event in the history of...
30 Mar 2017
Opuntia stricta (Prickly Pear) was introduced into Australia around 1840, but became a pest of epidemic proportions in the first two decades of the 20th...
23 Mar 2017
Biologists at The Australian National University (ANU) have found the first evidence of mass extinction of Australian animals caused by a dramatic drop in...