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7 May 2019
We may be in the middle of an insect mass extinction. The once abundant Rocky Mountain locust was last seen in 1902. Under the Mikheyev Group, Peiyu Yuan used...
11 Apr 2019
Stefan Bröer is looking for the right molecule for a biological target, that could be developed into a drug to treat diabetes. Now ANU has its own library of...
8 Apr 2019
Plant biologist and Head of the Plant Sciences Division at the ANU Research School of Biology, Professor Owen Atkin, has been named the 2019 Vice-Chancellor...
7 Mar 2019
To create a future you can look forward to we need to upgrade our crop plant resources. Upgrading crops to improve productivity and adapt to environmental...
5 Mar 2019
An international study has found a drought alarm system that first appeared in freshwater algae may have enabled plants to move from water to land more than...
4 Mar 2019
ANU biology students spent time in Singapore and Malaysia recently, on a field trip for the advanced studies in functional ecology course.
4 Mar 2019
Researchers from the Australian National University (ANU) have discovered several new species of butterflies and moths in Northern Australia, identifying a...
14 Feb 2019
Researchers at the ANU Research School of Biology have made a remarkable discovery about a group of lizards, and how they've managed to thrive in...
29 Jan 2019
Human error, not human biology, largely accounts for the apparent decline of mortality among the very old, according to a new report by Saul Newman of the...
24 Jan 2019
A scientific breakthrough intended to help boost the yields of food crops has solved a long-standing question of how cyanobacteria, known as blue-...
20 Dec 2018
Alexandra Catling indulges in her passion for scientific research on a trip to south east Asian forests. And discovers leeches.
20 Dec 2018
Fairy wrens can learn to recognise the alarm calls of other species.