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4 Nov 2009
Male Fiddler Crabs will quite happily protect a female neighbour, but do so partly in exchange for sex, according to a new study from The Australian National...
2 Nov 2009
An international group of plant scientists, led by Dr Gonzalo Estavillo and Professor Barry Pogson have discovered a subtle mutation in Arabidopsis which may...
2 Nov 2009
Dr Michael Roderick, a science researcher from the ANU Research School of Biology and the Research School of Earth Sciences, was awarded the 2009 Australasian...
29 Oct 2009
Dr Gwen Allison and colleagues in the Medical School have won an ALTC award for “Programs that Enhance Learning” for the Medical School Research Projects...
25 Sep 2009
The discovery of exactly how the malaria parasite resists the effects of the drug chloroquine could lead to a resurgence in the use of this one-time ‘wonder...
22 Sep 2009
Only 30 million years ago Australian and New Guinean echidnas had an amphibious, platypus-like ancestor, according to a new study published in the Proceedings...
21 Sep 2009
The Research School of Biology has enjoyed spectacular success in the inaugural ARC Future Fellowship round. Five of the twenty-one Fellowships awarded to ANU...
21 Sep 2009
Size may matter, Australian scientists have found. In possibly the first study of its kind, Australian National University biologists found that female...
21 Sep 2009
Mae Hingee and Rob Magrath's new paper ‘Flights of fear: a mechanical wing whistle sounds the alarm in a flocking bird’ (Proc. Roy. Soc. B.) has been the...
1 Sep 2009
When it comes to laying eggs, female reptiles can be remarkably communal, often laying their eggs in the nests of other females. A new study from Research...
24 Aug 2009
A team of researchers from The Australian National University have discovered a way to remove salt from seawater using nanotubes made from boron and nitrogen...
20 Aug 2009
David Miller of James Cook University and Eldon Ball of ANU, the Research School of Biiology, are leading a project to sequence a coral genome using Illumina...