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13 Aug 2012
Alex Maier discusses the global battle to beat the malaria parasite, which still kills almost a million people each year.
2 Aug 2012
Researchers from RSB created a mathematical model to test the ‘leaky pipe’ of academia, and determine what level of female academic representation we should...
12 Jul 2012
Two new ANU buildings reached lofty heights in the 2012 Master Builders and Boral Excellence in Building Awards earlier this month. The biosciences Linnaeus...
30 Jun 2012
The International C4 Rice Consortium has completed its first three years of research, the outcomes of which Professor Susanne von Caemmerer, a member of The...
22 Jun 2012
The lyrebird is the reigning king of karaoke in the animal world, with not even the birds being mimicked always able to tell the difference between the...
24 Apr 2012
Recent research conducted at ANU sheds new light on the complex interaction of genetic and environmental factors which controls phenotypic polymorphism and...
12 Jan 2012
Researchers from The Australian National University have discovered a new cellular communication process used by plants to respond to drought.
11 Jan 2012
A good upbringing can make you more attractive to females – if you are a mosquitofish, that is. Researchers from The Australian National University have shown...
10 Jan 2012
Researchers from The Australian National University have discovered that the male-specific Y-chromosome is shrinking – and it’s happening at different rates...
5 Jan 2012
Australia’s brightest young scientific minds have lit the Bunsen burner and flamed their passion for science at the 2012 National Youth Science Forum (NYSF),...
1 Dec 2011
The revival of a 150-year-old theory on how the human ear protects itself from damage caused by loud sounds could lead to better noise protection says a...
22 Nov 2011
New research from The Australian National University has shown how genetic variation persists through generations, rather than being bred out in an evolution...