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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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Sunday, 15 Feb 2015
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ANU lost one of its great supporters in November when Joan Duffield died at the age of 104.

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Saturday, 14 Feb 2015
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Fiona graduated from ANU in 2011 and is currently completing her PhD in pure mathematics at Oxford University.

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Friday, 13 Feb 2015

The National Maths Summer School, the Australian Science Olympiad and the National Youth Science Forum (NYSF), all converged on ANU as a venue for their summer programs this year.

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Thursday, 12 Feb 2015
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It’s well known that carbon in the atmosphere is causing global warming.

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Thursday, 12 Feb 2015
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Scientists have found a release of carbon dioxide stored deep in the ocean helped warm the planet and bring it out of the last ice age.

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