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There's a growing movement to decolonise mathematics. Professor Rowena Ball explains what this means and why it is important.

While people in these regions might say they are living to be 100 or even 110, there is simply no evidence for their age. Dr Newman has tracked down 80 percent of the people in the world who are over ...

By connecting climate change to its material impact on the world, scientists have transformed an observation into a policy problem.

It’s gob-smacking that bioluminescent fungi are real. Glow in the dark mushrooms feel like a fairy house straight from Enid Blyton’s imagination, not something that genuinely exists in our forests.

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The humble wildlife nest box has been given a hi-tech overhaul to help greater gliders severely impacted by Australia's bushfire disaster recover.

ANU ecologists and a cohort of New South Wales Local Aboriginal Land Councils are joining together on a project to re-introduce cultural burning in box-gum grassy woodlands and to monitor the ...

Scientists have detected radio signals from hot gas surrounding a supermassive black hole that existed 12.9 billion years ago, according to new research from an international team of scientists.

ANU Science On Location tells the stories of ANU researchers who have conducted this kind of long-term research in diverse locations across Australia. With projects running for 30 years or longer, ...

Double trouble: how two friends stuck together to score their dream jobs Good friends Rahul Ravindranathan and Aniruddha Deshpande didn’t know one another until they found themselves on the same ...

Befitting the University’s place among the top universities on the planet, our academics produce research which changes lives, and life as we know it. We are committed to solving problems through big ...