Australian National University vice-chancellor and Nobel Prize-winning astrophysicist Brian Schmidt has been appointed Chair of the Group of Eight. Professor Schmidt will start his two-year assignment on February 1st. “I look forward to working with all my colleagues to ensure ...

ANU experts have chosen ‘teal’ as the 2022 Word of the Year, following independent candidates scooping away eight Liberal seats across NSW and ACT during the federal election. Usually associated with dark greenish-blue colour or a breed of duck. In ...

University researchers from UNSW, ANU and the University of Melbourne have been recognised for their excellence at Australia’s most prestigious science awards. The 23rd Annual Prime Minister’s Prizes for Science, held on Monday evening, recognised outstanding work from the nation’s ...

An Australian native grass will be sent to the Moon by 2025 in a first step toward establishing sustainable life on the celestial body.  The project led by Queensland University of Technology (QUT) researcher Lauren Fell in association with national ...

A new underground physics lab in regional Victoria is setting Australian universities up in the race to unveil the secrets of dark matter, and potentially make the ‘discovery of the century’. Located in an active gold mine, the Stawell Underground ...

In the quest to send astronauts to Mars, ANU space medicine experts have developed modelling to predict the impact of prolonged exposure to zero gravity on the body. The model can be used to determine the impact of space flight ...

Australian retail workers are being left behind as rapid shifts in technology reshape the industry, a new study has found. Retail workers, who make up about 11 per cent of the Australian workforce, are being subjected to increased surveillance, a ...

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy has urged university students and young people to utilise social media to resist disinformation spread by Russia. In a live-streamed address hosted by the Australian National University, Zelenskyy shared his experience navigating the atrocities of war ...

Huawei and other Chinese ­government-backed companies are running huge technology training programs in Indonesia under the noses of Australia and other countries in the Quad, a new policy paper from the Australian National University says. The report, China Inc and ...

Distinguished Professor Susan Scott has always been interested in mathematics, but it was after watching the moon landing while in primary school that she developed her love for physics and gravity, a passion that still hasn't left her 53 years ...