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Islands are engines of linguistic diversity, study shows
Islands drive language change and generate language diversity in similar ways to how they drive species diversity, according to new research from ANU that analysed languages from over 13,000 inhabited islands.
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The ANU Research School of Earth Sciences has launched a pilot internship program which benefits students, industry and the University.
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Despite being the most abundant protein in the world, we are still getting to the roots of how Rubisco, the protein at the heart of photosynthesis, works.
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A poll has found 90 per cent of Australians think science has made life easier, but many also worry that new technologies have changed our way of life too fast.
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Scientists from ANU have helped to solve the mystery of what causes exploding stars, which are used to measure the accelerating expansion of the Universe.
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Research led by ANU has solved the mystery of how the first animals appeared on Earth, a pivotal moment for the planet without which humans would not exist.
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A new study from ANU on a 400 million year old fish fossil has found a jaw structure that is part of the evolutionary lineage linked to humans.
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Dr Kai Chan from the ANU Research School of Biology has been named 2017 ACT Scientist of the Year.
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It takes a couple of minutes to get from Mars to Earth. Assuming you stick to the speed limit.