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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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A fossil in a grey rock
Wednesday, 23 Nov 2022
  • News

The contents of the last meal consumed by the earliest animals known to inhabit Earth more than 550 million years ago has unearthed new clues about the physiology of our earliest animal ancestors, according to scientists from ANU.

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Two researchers pose
Tuesday, 22 Nov 2022
  • News

Two leading researchers from The Australian National University (ANU) who are battling catastrophic climate change and killer infectious diseases are winners in the 2022 Prime Minister's Prizes for Science.

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Orange bellied parrot juveniles in a calico bag
Monday, 21 Nov 2022
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Animals bred in captivity can experience significant changes to their bodies, behaviour and health, which affects their chances of survival when they’re released into the wild, a new review from ANU researchers has shown.

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Man hold piece of wood in front of Micro CT equipment
Friday, 18 Nov 2022
  • News

The ARC Training Centre for Multiscale 3D Imaging, Modelling and Manufacturing, M3D Innovation is using a "disruptive" digital imaging, analysis, modelling and manufacturing technology developed at ANU for more than 15 years.

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Blue background with illustrated science icons in bright colours. Text reads, LGBTQ+ STEM day
Friday, 18 Nov 2022
  • News


Discover the contributions that LGBTQIA+ people in STEM make, and the barriers people can face.

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Glider poking head from tree hollow
Wednesday, 16 Nov 2022
Jack Simpson
Monday, 14 Nov 2022
  • Career story

Jack Simpson tracked the movements of honeybees for his PhD, now he’s a director of an energy economics company.

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Red full moon
Friday, 04 Nov 2022
  • News

Tuesday will be your last chance to catch a glimpse of a blood moon, which is more commonly known as a total lunar eclipse, until 2025.

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Burnt landscape
Tuesday, 01 Nov 2022
  • Analysis and opinion

Our new research demonstrates how the scale of the 2019/2020 bushfire disaster blew out due to legislation introduced in the 1970s, which was based on idea that nature should be left to grow freely without human intervention.

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