30 Mar 2023

Off the coast of Antarctica, trillions of tonnes of cold salty water sink to great depths. As the water sinks, it drives the deepest flows of the “overturning...

21 Mar 2023

Victoria’s largest earthquake since record-keeping began roughly 200 years ago was caused by the rupture of a previously unknown faultline, according to new...

21 Mar 2023

What’s the first question an aspiring geologist asks their ‘future self’? Their favourite rock, of course. ANU student Seb Bland sits down with Professor...

4 Jan 2023

Dr Adele Morrison, a user of the ACCESS suite of models, has won the 2022 Malcolm McIntosh Prize for Physical Scientist of the Year. The award recognises her...

7 Dec 2022

They are in your smartphone, electric vehicles and used widely in renewable energy technology. But what exactly are ‘rare earth’ elements and just how rare are...

2 Dec 2022

The contents of the last meal consumed by the earliest animals known to inhabit Earth more than 550 million years ago has unearthed new clues about the...

29 Nov 2022

Almost all volcanic rocks come from the Earth's upper mantle (or lava). Volcanism, on the other hand, can have many different chemical and physical...

1 Nov 2022

Graduating with a Master of Earth Sciences (Advanced), Hangyu Meng came to ANU to pursue his curiosity about how the world works and to develop his research...

28 Oct 2022

ANU scientists have developed a new method to scan the deep interior of planets in our solar system using a single seismometer.

30 Aug 2022

The timing and intensity of the seasons shapes life all around us, including tool use by birds, the evolutionary diversification of giraffes, and the behaviour...

22 Aug 2022

There's nothing like the fresh eggs from your own hens, the more than 400,000 Australians who keep backyard chooks will tell you. Unfortunately, it...

11 Aug 2022

A new Nature Geoscience study from The Australian National University (ANU) offers further clues about what happened to the Mediterranean during a tumultuous...