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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.
Read the articleIt might be hard to believe, but scientists currently rely on one type of coral found in one place only—the Bahamas—as a source of the ingredients to make important anti-cancer and anti-malaria drugs.
Physicists at ANU and University of Queensland (UQ) have produced near-perfect clones of quantum information using a new method to surpass previous cloning limits.
ANU graduate Ellen Cliff has been named the Queensland Rhodes Scholar for 2017 and will head to Oxford in September next year.
Professor Robyn Lucas has been awarded the 2016 John James Foundation Tony Ayers Prize for Excellence in Translational Medicine.
An international research team has released a top-10 list of ways countries can protect pollinating insects such as bees.
Geologists have for the first time seen and documented the Banda Detachment fault in eastern Indonesia and worked out how it formed.
PhD student Andrea Parisi from the Research School of Population Health and a team of developers from ANU won first prize in Canberra's first HealthHack event.
For most people, finding out you’ve lost your job is a catastrophe, but for Victoria Clark, there was a silver lining