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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, 02 Nov 2014
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First-year undergraduate student, Rosemary Avery, has been awarded the Apiculture Society’s inaugural prize for three assignments she completed showing the importance of research into bees.

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Friday, 31 Oct 2014
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“But who do you think’s right, Prof? The optimists or the pessimists?”

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Sunday, 26 Oct 2014
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A new drug trial on a rare type of blood cancer is due to start early next year and could help in the broader fight against other forms of cancer.

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