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

Fairy wrens can learn to recognise the alarm calls of other species.

20 Dec 2018

Seaweed plays an important role in coral reef biodiversity, with an important role in the lifecycle of several fishes.

20 Dec 2018

Alexandra Catling indulges in her passion for scientific research on a trip to south east Asian forests. And discovers leeches.

18 Dec 2018

Fred Chow has dedicated his working life to the study of photosynthesis.