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...

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...

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...

24 Jun 2022

Seminar presented by: Dr Rebecca McGirr, ACEAS Research Associate, Australian National University.

10 May 2022

Nestled into the volcanic mountains of Nasu, Japan, a modest grey rock has stood the test of time.

1 Apr 2022

Dr Mark Hoggard doesn’t seem like someone who would talk in favour of mining.

24 Mar 2022

When Dr Mahdiyeh Razeghi started her undergraduate degree in Iran, little did she know that she would go on to pioneer a niche area of groundwater evolution...