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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, 15 Sep 2015

The Australian National University has climbed into the world's top 20 universities and strengthened its position as Australia's top-ranked university.

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Monday, 14 Sep 2015
  • News

Year 11 student Allie Knight from St. Francis Xavier College walked away with more than a “love” of chemistry after attending the Science Lab Coat party at this year’s ANU Open Day.

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Monday, 14 Sep 2015
  • Research story

A new species of African lizard, described by a team of researchers including staff at the ANU Research School of Biology, has been named after Sir David Attenborough.

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Monday, 14 Sep 2015
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Kelsie Long’s success in the Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition proves that while fish ear stones might not be sexy, they are interesting.

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Friday, 11 Sep 2015
  • Student blog

The ANU has several libraries, but my favourite would have to be the Hancock Library.

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Thursday, 10 Sep 2015
  • News

An evaluation of an online assessment tool designed to assess a person's Alzheimer's disease and dementia risk has shown that 2 in every 3 participants plan on taking preventative action to reduce their future risk.  

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Thursday, 10 Sep 2015
  • News

Hannah James’ upcoming presentation at this year’s Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition is guaranteed to make you reconsider what you had for lunch, but in a good way.

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