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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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Friday, 19 May 2017
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An ANU physicist has been enlisted into an international network of scientists working to build a sustainable future with fusion energy.

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Thursday, 18 May 2017
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Engineers have invented tiny structures inspired by butterfly wings that open the door to new solar cell technologies and other applications.

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Tuesday, 16 May 2017
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ANU is inviting everyone with an interest in astronomy to join a search that the University is leading for exploding stars called supernovae.

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Friday, 12 May 2017
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Scientists have discovered a way to solve a problem that has baffled humans for so long it is in the Bible

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Wednesday, 10 May 2017
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ANU has welcomed the announcement in the federal Budget that the Australian astronomy community will gain access to telescopes in Chile

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Tuesday, 09 May 2017
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ANU is poised to provide China with its first Stellarator device

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Tuesday, 09 May 2017
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ANU scientists say the early Earth was likely to be barren, flat and almost entirely under water with a few small islands

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Monday, 08 May 2017

Plant scientist Professor Susanne von Caemmerer has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in the UK.

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Friday, 05 May 2017
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Scientists will take a stand when people lose their sense of judgment on science.

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