High Resolution Plant Phenomics Centre launched in Canberra

Strange beasts evolve on islands: flightless bats and birds, amphibious or monstrous lizards, huge tortoises, giant rodents, dwarf elephants and even humans, such as the famous 'hobbit', H. floresiensis.

Hagfish may be ferociously ugly little creatures, but they can teach us much about the evolution of the vertebrate eye.

Almost everywhere humans have gone in their peregrinations around the planet, the world's second most ubiquitous mammal, the black rat, Rattus rattus, has followed.

Royal jelly kick-starts DNA methylation in bees, ANU researchers find.

Planetary scientist asks the question: should we expect extraterrestrials to be as stupid as we are?

When the heat is on, boys will be girls, at least among bearded dragons.

High performance computing is stimulating collaborative research across state - and country - borders.

The Australian National University (ANU) is conducting a world-first program to digitally map the southern sky using a specially constructed telescope called Skymapper, and in another global first will provide the data free to the world via a virtual observatory.

microRNAs linked to protection from autoimmune diseases, new research finds.

Frank Fenner to retire at (almost) 93.