Fluid vortices rolling off a spinning sphere, from Dr Calabretto's research. Understanding the way fluid moves over a rotating sphere has implications for the behaviour of air flowing over an aircraft Next time you look out the window of a plane, or watch a cloud form overhead, spare a thought for...

Astronomy has been a collaborative activity for a long time: ever since Indigenous Australians first started looking up at the sky. Until recently, we were collaborating by observing the sky together, sharing telescopes and images. Now, astronomy has made it easier to collect and share large...

Extreme weather is a part of life in Australia: bushfires, droughts, floods, cyclones, heatwaves. And every time an extreme weather event comes around, the health impacts are clear. In Australia, we expect Summer to be hot. But there are hot days, and then there are hot days. We're talking about the...

When you ingest medicine from your pharmacist, specific proteins in your body transport them to where they need to go. In particular, some proteins play a key role in moving the drugs in and out of cells. When designing new drugs, it is vital to know exactly what these proteins are doing and how...

It's the iconic scent of the Australian bush, and a feature of almost every Aussie backyard, so it's surprising that Australia only plays a small role in the multimillion-dollar global industry of our most recognisable substance. Eucalyptus trees are big business overseas. The trees are used in...

In late 2016, biologists from the Garvan Institute of Medical Research and The Australian National University's John Curtin School of Medical Research took 1,206 human genomes, and in one night of computation at NCI, realigned them to the human reference genome and identified the genetic variations...