science wire

The Australian National University (ANU) and The University of Melbourne will lead the Australian side of a new bilateral research collaboration with top German institutions to build economic and technological opportunities from the global transition to clean energy.

An international climate policy expert at The Australian National University (ANU) has called on G20 leaders to take concrete steps to reduce fossil-fuel subsidies and reform global energy governance.

Researchers have called for health professionals and climate forecasters to work more closely together ahead of extreme weather events and gradual climate change to help prevent the spread of infections.

Our invention has a lot of potential applications, such as protecting astronauts or satellites with an ultra-thin film that can be adjusted to reflect various dangerous ultraviolet or infrared radiation in different environments.

Today's fight for freedom is for freedom of women and sexual liberation and this was one of the many messages of the Bolshevik revolution.

New research from the ANU shows when it comes to percussion, the palm cockatoo is the animal kingdom's match for Ringo Starr or Phil Collins.

The findings could help us to design better insecticides and find more efficient ways to reduce insect populations so they spread less disease and destroy fewer crops. An international team of scientists say disrupting the ability of insects to smell the scent of food and potential mates may offer a way to protect humans from deadly diseases such as malaria and agricultural crops from pests.

Researchers at ANU are looking for people who are experiencing memory or other cognitive problems in daily life to take part in a new study on how to reduce the risk of dementia.

Emerging Indigenous composers from around Australia have recorded a series of new compositions at ANU under a new mentoring program run out of the ANU School of Music.

Fire can destroy buildings but the discoveries made by the great academics at ANU, who work with telescopes at Siding Spring Observatory, can never be deleted from the global understanding of astronomy, astrophysics and space science.

Our work shows that there are many sites in South Australia that may be suitable for establishing pumped hydro storage, to help build a sustainable, secure and affordable electricity grid.

Researchers have identified a new gene which is crucial for the immune system to respond to infection and vaccination. The finding could help scientists better understand immunodeficiency and why some people are more susceptible to infections. One of the lead researchers, Dr Ian Parish from The Australian National University (ANU), said removal of the Etaa1 gene in a mouse model resulted in the animal not being able to mount an immune response to vaccination or infection.

The ANU 2016 Annual Report, tabled in Parliament today, acknowledged the University's achievements over seven decades and pointed to the major successes in research and education in 2016.

With the release of Chief Scientist Dr Alan Finkel's blueprint for Australia's future electricity market, ANU experts below provide their thoughts on the way forward to ensure the country's energy security.

Researchers at ANUâ?are working on a new treatment for an aggressive type of leukemia that outperforms standard chemotherapies. Lead researcher Dr Nadine Hein from The John Curtin School of Medical Research at ANU said researchers have successfully treated highly aggressive acute myeloid leukemia (AML) in mice using the new treatment.

This is by far the most comprehensive comparison of genetic tree-based dates and the geological dates of the continental breakups. ANU scientists have found that independent estimates from geology and biology agree on the timing of the breakup of the Pangaea supercontinent into today's continents.â' When continents break up, single species are divided into two and drift apart - physically and genetically.

As the energy sector eagerly awaits Chief Scientist Dr Alan Finkel's final report on the review of the electricity market's future security, ANU experts below provide their thoughts on what to expect.

The ANUâ?RBA Shadow Board believes interest rates should follow a hold-and-wait pattern in June, with benign domestic economic indicators and another possible quarter of economic contraction.

We're hoping the project gives us a nice window into rural life in that period. There has been very little archaeological evidence found from that period in this area before.

Over the first three decades of the one-child policy, fertility decline and its consequences can explain up to a quarter of China's per-capita GDP growth.

ANUâ?has been awarded three Australian Laureate Fellowships from the Australian Research Council (ARC), including two prestigious named fellowships for world-class female researchers.

Climate experts at ANU have responded to the United States' decision to leave the Paris Accord on climate change.

Climate experts at The Australian National University (ANU) have weighed in on the potential global fallout from the impending announcement by the United States of America about whether it will pull out of the Paris climate deal.

Researchers at The Australian National University (ANU) are calling for location data to be withheld from research publications to help protect some rare and endangered species.

Having the US remain under the Paris Agreement would reveal the weaknesses of the agreement, prevent new opportunities from emerging, and gift greater leverage to a recalcitrant administration.

One of the gaps in knowledge about autonomous vehicles is how and when humans should interact with them - essentially, when will a human be able to regain control of an autonomous vehicle.

A leading law academic from ANU has warned that Australia's criminal justice system is addicted to incarceration, describing the rate of imprisonment of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people as a catastrophe.

It's time to lay bare the truth of what we live with, which is a race-based legal system in a multicultural society. One of Australia's leading anti-discrimination law experts believes it's time for Australia to open up a potentially confronting discussion on race issues within the Australian legal system.

There's a whole bunch of potential new applications using our light-control technique, including next-generation solar cell, architectural and stealth technologies.

A number of ANU experts have reacted following Australian Treasurer Scott Morrison unveiling the second Turnbull Government budget.

Australia's participation in multinational collaborations like the partnership with ESO, and the GMT and SKA projects, will advance our scientific and industrial capabilities.

We are focusing on fusion materials research and plasma diagnostic development, to better understand how containment materials behave in the extreme environment of a fusion reactor.

The history of the Earth is like a book with its first chapter ripped out with no surviving rocks from the very early period, but we've used these trace elements of zircon to build a profile of the world at that time ANU scientists say the early Earth was likely to be barren, flat and almost entirely under water with a few small islands, following their analysis of tiny mineral grains as old as 4.4 billion years.

The history of the Earth is like a book with its first chapter ripped out with no surviving rocks from the very early period, but we've used these trace elements of zircon to build a profile of the world at that time ANU scientists say the early Earth was likely to be barren, mountainless and almost entirely under water with a few small islands, following their analysis of tiny mineral grains as old as 4.4 billion years.

A collection of ten new works for carillon will have their world premiere this Friday as part of a collaboration between The Australian National University (ANU) and the National Capital Authority, which manages the National Carillon in Canberra.

Australian Treasurer Scott Morrison will unveil the second Turnbull Government budget on 9 May. A number of ANU experts have given their opinion on the budget and its implications for Australia.

A new study is looking for people aged 40 years or older in the ACT to take part in a focus group to increase community dementia awareness.

President Trump's first 100 days in office continue to raise eyebrows and put policy makers and economists on edge.

We discover early on in the movie that the embryo split in two, but it didn't split equally - all the purity and strength went into Schwarzenegger's character Julius, while the dregs went into Vincent, DeVito's character.

New treasures of The Australian National University (ANU) art collection will go on display for the first time on Friday at a major exhibition of works donated to the University's Drill Hall Gallery.

Australians are also looking for scientists to help them sort facts from fiction in the modern world of fake news and so-called alternative facts.

The space race is being radically changed by the disruptive nano-satellite technology, particularly the emergence of CubeSats built from cubes 10 centimetres per side.

We're working towards making fusion a viable baseload power source by 2050, and Australia working closer with China on this technology will help to make this a reality.

Fred Hollows really stood out. He's just one of these larger than life characters who achieved an enormous amount in a relatively short life.