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A new material platform has enabled scientists to create photon pairs whose entanglement can be tuned, from a layer thinner than a human hair. The photon pairs are created by a metasurface made of ...
New research that used our world-leading geochronology facility at ANU, shows how communities that lived in western Iran about 11,000 years ago gave gifts from their travels in cultural practices ...
Research looking at the governance of Indigenous cultural knowledge, turning waste into climate-friendly fertilisers, investigating our planet’s core and finding new ways to save species from the ...
A world-first clinical trial targeting cancers that are currently undruggable will begin later this year, led by a research team from The Australian National University (ANU) and Canberra Health ...
The issue of eligibility for NDIS funding, for people with a mental health condition, is in large part because there is no single, agreed definition of the term psychosocial disability.
These scientists can 3D-print living cells – a first step to printing our own organs.
For the past 35 years, Emeritus Professor Chennupati Jagadish has pioneered nanotechnology research at the Australian National University (ANU). But when we speak about his election as a Fellow of the ...
New research suggests southern Australia may experience longer and more frequent droughts in the future, as the climate changes.
Evidence is mounting that a secret lies beneath the dusty red plains of Mars, one that could redefine our view of the Red Planet: a vast reservoir of liquid water, locked deep in the crust.
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.
As Dr Dominik Koll was investigating a new method of radio-dating ancient samples, he stumbled across evidence of a major event in the Earth’s history, around ten million years ago.
ANU spinoff company Ability Optics Pty Ltd is accelerating to revolutionise biotechnology with an aim to speed up early lead drug screening by 100-fold.