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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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Tuesday, 28 Jun 2016
  • Student blog

A field trip takes student blogger Jesse Zondervan to a classroom in paradise on the Great Barrier Reef.

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Tuesday, 28 Jun 2016
  • Student blog

I’m quite surprised to find an ice rink in Australia. Apparently it’s open the whole year round too, something that doesn’t even happen in the Dutch summer. I’m driving there in the BMW of one of my professors.

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Tuesday, 28 Jun 2016
  • Student blog

I’m surprised by the abundance of bike paths in Canberra. Both lanes along the road and segregated green cycle lanes supply a cycle infrastructure throughout Canberra.

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Tuesday, 28 Jun 2016
  • Student blog

Canberra might be silent at times, but student life is humming.

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Tuesday, 28 Jun 2016
  • Student blog

Where other people see rocks and cliffs, our geologist student blogger Jesse Zondervan sees another world. Join him as he visits Jervis Bay.

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Thursday, 23 Jun 2016

The Australian National University (ANU) has welcomed a new collaboration with the Australian Government for a new facility to help grow Australia’s cyber-security workforce and Science Technology Engineering and Maths (STEM) capabilities.

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Tuesday, 21 Jun 2016
  • News

Researchers at The Australian National University (ANU) have found the current management practices in the Mountain Ash forests of Victoria’s Central Highlands don’t stack up economically.

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Tuesday, 21 Jun 2016
  • Research story

A bright energy future in Australia depends on greater policy agreement between all political parties, Ken Baldwin writes.

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Friday, 17 Jun 2016
  • Research story

Scientists made headlines around the world earlier this year when they confirmed the existence of gravitational waves.

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