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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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Satellite over Earth
Wednesday, 17 May 2023
  • Analysis and opinion

How do we find enough people with the skills necessary to grow the space technology sector?

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Black, green and blue butterfly
Tuesday, 16 May 2023
  • Analysis and opinion

Until recently we had very little idea when butterflies evolved, and hypotheses concerning their place of origin were largely educated guesses.

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A smiling woman leaning against a glass staircase
Monday, 15 May 2023
  • Analysis and opinion

Growing up queer in Townsville, Emily Standen knows about the importance of role models: "I don't think that I really thought queer people could be scientists. So from my own experience, I know that it's hard to be what you can't see. You can definitely do it - someone has to be the first - but it's not an easy thing to do.”

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Galaxy clusters
Friday, 12 May 2023
  • Analysis and opinion

We have successfully used a new technique – involving light from an exploding star that arrived at Earth via multiple winding routes through the expanding Universe – to measure how fast the Universe is expanding.

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Three fluffy parrot chicks in gloved hand
Friday, 12 May 2023
  • News

A new study from ANU researchers offers clues about which birds are most likely to survive. their risky first migration.

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Raghda is painting at an easel.
Thursday, 11 May 2023
  • Student profile

Meet the nuclear physicist exploring dark energy through art. As an artist, Raghda Abdel Khaleq is working on a dark energy-inspired series, where she uses red gradients to explore how the universe is expanding at an accelerated rate.

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Three physicists
Wednesday, 10 May 2023
  • News

A surprise observation of negative mass in exciton-polaritons has added yet another dimension of weirdness to these strange light-matter hybrid particles.

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Lego Storm Trooper
Thursday, 04 May 2023
  • Analysis and opinion

On Star Wars Day we take a look at some of the things that keep us coming back to one of the most famous science fiction epics of all time.

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Bright green fungus on a tree
Tuesday, 02 May 2023
  • Research story

What’s the science behind these ghosts?

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