As it girdles the planet linking the main oceanic basins, the Southern Ocean is a potent influence over the Earth's energy distribution system: this vast and still-enigmatic water body holds one of the main keys to understanding how climate change will unfold. The Southern Ocean is warming much...

DISCOVERING NEW CHEMISTRY IN CYBERSPACE Finding an affordable way to turn carbon dioxide into fuel or deciphering the subtle processes that lead to heart disease or ageing are among the extraordinary possibilities now opening up thanks to advances in the field of computational quantum chemistry....

Each of us is the scene of billions of collisions, every microsecond of our lives. Indeed, our world and the universe around it thrive on the colliding of minute particles – fundamental processes that cause it to function as it does. "Atomic collisions are the interactions between atoms, electrons...

A key to feeding humanity and combating climate change through the 21st century will be the development of 'supercharged' crops and trees that perform the miracle of photosynthesis with far greater efficiency. At the Australian National University's John Curtin School of Medical Research, Professor...