4 Dec 2018

A new X-ray diffractometer ‘Empyrean S3’ arrived this week, replacing three older instruments and expanding the capabilities of our XRD lab. The instrument is...

30 Nov 2018

The Australian Research Council announced its latest round of grants on 27th November, with thirteen academics from RSES awarded nine grants: six DPs, one LIEF...

1 Nov 2018

Researchers from Griffith University and ANU have used the teeth of Neanderthal children to reconstruct the ancient climate of southeast France.

19 Oct 2018

Associate Professor Hrvoje Tkalčić and PhD Scholar Than-Son Phạm are confident they now have direct proof the earth's inner core is solid. 

18 Oct 2018

The Prime Minister and the Minister for Science presented Prime Minister's Prizes for Science to ten outstanding researchers, innovators and teachers at a...

21 Sep 2018

RSES PhD student Ilya Bobrovskiy and Assoc. Prof. Jochen Brocks have discovered molecules of fat in an ancient fossil to reveal the earliest confirmed animal...

10 Aug 2018

Scientists from Australia and the United States have helped to solve the mystery underlying Jupiter's coloured bands in a new study on the interaction...

10 Aug 2018

A research team led by ANU has found the first proof that Antarctica is not isolated from the rest of the Earth, with the discovery that foreign kelp had...

11 Jul 2018

Scientists from ANU and overseas have discovered the oldest colours in the geological record, 1.1 billion-year-old bright pink pigments extracted from rocks...

22 Jun 2018

To understand when, how, and how quickly oxygen has become a component of our atmosphere between about 2.5 and 2.2 billion years ago, an international research...

23 May 2018

Scientists from The Australian National University (ANU) have helped design new satellite instruments that are part of a joint NASA and German mission launched...

30 Apr 2018

World-first modelling research– which used several million CPU hours in Australia’s fastest supercomputer, Raijin, and ran calculations non-stop for over a...