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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, 28 Oct 2016
  • Research story

It 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.

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Mathematics student, Shuaige Qiao
Friday, 28 Oct 2016
  • Student profile

My favourite thing is the flexibility of choosing courses.

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Thursday, 27 Oct 2016
  • News

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.

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Wednesday, 26 Oct 2016

ANU graduate Ellen Cliff has been named the Queensland Rhodes Scholar for 2017 and will head to Oxford in September next year.

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Wednesday, 26 Oct 2016
  • Academic profile

Professor Robyn Lucas has been awarded the 2016 John James Foundation Tony Ayers Prize for Excellence in Translational Medicine.

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Tuesday, 25 Oct 2016
  • News

An international research team has released a top-10 list of ways countries can protect pollinating insects such as bees.

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Tuesday, 25 Oct 2016
  • News

Geologists have for the first time seen and documented the Banda Detachment fault in eastern Indonesia and worked out how it formed.

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Friday, 21 Oct 2016

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.

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Friday, 21 Oct 2016
  • Career story

For most people, finding out you’ve lost your job is a catastrophe, but for Victoria Clark, there was a silver lining

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