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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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A black bird with a curved beak and red eyes
Friday, 10 Nov 2023
  • Research story

The white-winged chough is one of the weirder birds out there.

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Flooded town
Friday, 03 Nov 2023
  • News

Human-caused climate change is changing the way water moves around Earth, according to a new study involving researchers from ANU.

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HIAF
Thursday, 26 Oct 2023
  • News

A new partnership between The Australian National University (ANU) and world-leading Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) in the United States will deliver innovations in nuclear science and help steward the safe use of nuclear technologies across the globe.

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Paleomagnetic laboratory
Thursday, 26 Oct 2023
  • Research story

A secret lab? Few people know about this Earth sciences lab that’s tucked away on the side of a mountain in Canberra.

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Kangaroos grazing
Monday, 23 Oct 2023
  • News

Making better use of kangaroos as a red-meat alternative could help farmers reduce their emissions and make their grazing land more productive, a new report shows.

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Crocodile swimming
Wednesday, 18 Oct 2023
  • Research story

How did saltwater crocodiles snap up Yusuke Fukuda’s heart?

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Wednesday, 18 Oct 2023
  • News

The most comprehensive view of the history of the universe ever created has been produced by ANU researchers.

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Asteroid Psyche (Illustration)
Wednesday, 18 Oct 2023
  • Analysis and opinion

Last week NASA launched a spacecraft to rendezvous with Psyche. The mission will take a six-year, 3.6 billion kilometre journey to gather clues that Earth scientists will interrogate for information about the inaccessible interior of our own world.

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Three researchers in lab
Wednesday, 11 Oct 2023
  • News

A series of clever design tweaks have boosted the efficiency of solar-powered hydrogen production, using cheap and readily available materials.

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