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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, 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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Thursday, 20 Oct 2016
  • News

Australian scientists have worked with researchers in Germany to create the most detailed map of the Milky Way, using the world’s largest radio telescopes. 

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Thursday, 20 Oct 2016

ANU scientist Dr Rachel Wood has been honoured as one of Australia's leading women researchers in the inaugural Women in Research Citation Awards.

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Thursday, 20 Oct 2016
  • Research story

It was Professor Brian Schmidt who received a Nobel Prize, but it was technology, he says, that facilitated the discovery.

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Monday, 17 Oct 2016
  • News

The Australian National University (ANU) has partnered with Humboldt University in Berlin (Germany) to deliver a dual PhD program aimed at crossing boundaries to fight malaria.

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Aerial view of ANU campus, showing buildings, ovals and Black Mountain.
Monday, 17 Oct 2016
  • Analysis and opinion

Australia's energy security needs to be reviewed in the face of new threats from climate change, cyber hacking and greater complexity in the energy system, an expert forum hosted by the ANU Energy Change Institute and Engineers Australia has found.

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Sunday, 16 Oct 2016

A class of biology students travelled to the Kioloa Coastal Campus for the weekend to study the functional diversity of plants. In this video hear from the participants and see what the trip involved.

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Friday, 14 Oct 2016

Research led by The Australian National University (ANU) is helping to develop food crops with bigger yields and greater ability to cope with drought compared with today’s plants.

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Thursday, 13 Oct 2016

An urban environment expert at The Australian National University (ANU) is among leading scientists calling for a greater say on a new international plan for cities of the future, ahead of a major United Nations conference next week.

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