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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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Wednesday, 13 May 2015
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Professor Chennupati Jagadish and his research team have been growing extremely small wires called nanowires, which can be used to make lasers and solar cells.

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Wednesday, 13 May 2015
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Professor Trevor Ireland from the Research School of Earth Sciences is interested in thinking back billions of years in time.

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Friday, 08 May 2015

Scientists from the ANU have sought the advice of Australian wicketkeeper Brad Haddin for their high-technology research into cricket bats.

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