Find out about the latest news, announcements and stories about science at ANU.

island

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.

Read the article
Professor Susan Scott stands facing the camera, smiling.
Tuesday, 12 Jul 2022
  • Media release

Distinguished Professor Susan Scott has been newly elected as a Fellow of the International Society on General Relativity and Gravitation (ISGRG) for 2022.

Read the article
Six images of space taken by a telescope
Thursday, 07 Jul 2022
  • Media release

We now have new clues about a mysterious stage in the life of binary stars, thanks to research from The Australian National University (ANU) and Yunnan Observatory in China.

Read the article
A woman standing among some laboratory equipment
Wednesday, 06 Jul 2022
  • Academic profile

The ANU Research School of Physics is home to the largest and most powerful ion accelerator in Australia, and Professor Mahananda Dasgupta would like its world-class reputation to be better known here at home.

Read the article
A beekeeper lifts a honeycomb out of a beehive
Monday, 04 Jul 2022
  • Media release

Bee populations worldwide have been collapsing under attack from parasitic Varroa mites. Now, these mites have reached Australia.

Read the article
A woman stands wearing a black knitted jumper. A repeating design is featured, fanning out from the neckline, showing the planets and asteroid belts in the solar system.
Monday, 04 Jul 2022
  • Media release

PhD student Rachel Kirby weaved together two of her passions - knitting and space - to design a solar system jumper inspired by her PhD.

Read the article
A researcher sits at a table, working on his laptop. Hi-tech computing infrastructure is in the background.
Friday, 24 Jun 2022
  • Media release

Future weather and climate predictions have been given a major boost with the launch of a new national research facility worth $7.6 million.

Read the article
Artist rendering: two gridlike squares are shown suspended in space with light rays going through them. Two images are displayed on the squares, glowing brightly.
Tuesday, 21 Jun 2022
  • Media release

Physicists at The Australian National University (ANU) have developed tiny translucent slides capable of producing two very different images depending on the direction in which light travels through them.

Read the article
Three men looking at laser physics equipment inside a laboratory with sound proofing.
Thursday, 16 Jun 2022
  • Research story

If you look at a  map of the most water-stressed  nations on Earth, India is coloured red, placing millions of people's lives and livelihoods in danger. But could advances in quantum physics actually be part of the solution?

Read the article
Two people standing looking at the camera.
Wednesday, 15 Jun 2022
  • Media release

The fastest-growing black hole of the last nine billion years has been discovered by an international team led by astronomers at The Australian National University (ANU).

Read the article