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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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ANU alumnus Chris Harris-Pascal is changing the world from the groundwater up.
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An international team of scientists led by ANU has designed a new nano device that promises ultra-fast rendering of high-definition graphics on gaming consoles.
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My name is Rachael and I've just returned from three months’ fieldwork in South Africa to answer the question: is climate change irrelephant?
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A senior scientist from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change will discuss the latest insights on human-caused climate change at an event at ANU.
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“It’s absolutely shocking to dive on a reef that you know well, and see it turn white in the space of a week.It’s the scariest thing I’ve ever seen in my life."
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The ANU Climate Change Institute connects researchers from across ANU to contribute to climate change solutions.
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Who ‘does’ science? That’s the question ANU alumna Sian Keys is posing, in an effort to prove ability is no barrier when it comes to science.
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This is not the easiest work to explain to your family: you spend your days watching beetle sex tapes.
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Australia has signed an agreement with the European Southern Observatory (ESO) to give Australian astronomers access to ESO telescopes in Chile.