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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, 28 Nov 2014

In September Dr Ben Corry, senior lecturer for the Research School of Biology

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Monday, 24 Nov 2014

Congratulations to the ANU scientists who have been honoured for their contributions to maths and sciences, winning a host of major awards from the Australian Academy of Sciences.

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Friday, 21 Nov 2014
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ANU congratulated its Questacon Science Circus scholars, who have celebrated the end of their year travelling the country putting on science shows.

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Tuesday, 18 Nov 2014
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The University and the ACT Government have announced the appointment of distinguished medical researcher Professor Ross Hannan as the inaugural Centenary Chair in Cancer Research.

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Monday, 17 Nov 2014
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Physicists at ANU have engineered a spiral laser beam and used it to create a whirlpool of hybrid light-matter particles called polaritons.

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