23 May 2014

A tastier tipple With wines travelling through the Suez Canal at 50˚C air temperature, the bottles at the top are really going to cop it. When he’s not busy...

30 Apr 2014

Professor Kiaran Kirk has been appointed as the Dean of the ANU College of Medicine, Biology and Environment.

28 Apr 2014

Peter Solomon was awarded a grant in May 2014 from the Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC) to undertake viral-induced gene silencing in wheat.

15 Apr 2014

An anti-malarial treatment that lost its status as the leading weapon against the deadly disease could be given a new lease of life, with new research...

26 Mar 2014

Hanna Kokko and Craig Moritz from RSB's Division of Evolution, Ecology and Genetics have been elected Fellows of the Australian Academy of Science.

14 Mar 2014

Lab research The Fulton Lab explores patterns of aquatic biodiversity in relation to environmental variability across space and time. Our recent work has...

14 Mar 2014

Ladina Ribi has spent a lifetime looking at ants and insects, and believes drawings of the tiny creatures are better than photographs at showing microscopic...

5 Mar 2014

A new study overturns long-held theories that bird song is an exclusively male trait.

28 Feb 2014

For more than a decade, the complete human and mouse genomes have been sequenced and catalogued in databases for anyone to search through. But the list of...

27 Feb 2014

Group research The molecular basis of coral biology. Greatest achievement Participation in the discovery and characterization of insect 'muscle pioneers': the...

26 Feb 2014

Lab research focus Bizarre evolutionary games arise when species evolve to have males and females. These include resolving sexual conflict, choosing mates,...

18 Feb 2014

Indigenous cultures around the globe use traditional medicines and pass on knowledge, developed over centuries, that is directly linked to the natural...