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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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Three farm workers in Zimbabwe pictured in an agricultural landscape with irrigation pipes.
Friday, 20 May 2022
  • News

An innovative project involving researchers from The Australian National University (ANU) that is helping farming communities in Africa thrive has been recognised for its success.

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Professor Anna Moore
Monday, 16 May 2022
  • News

The Australian National University (ANU) will help propel Australia's space manufacturing capabilities and sector in a new research hub of national priority.

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An elder points to a carved tree trunk in a paddock, while a group of small children look on
Tuesday, 10 May 2022
  • Research story

The biologists and the linguists at ANU might sit on different sides of the campus, but Professor Lindell Bromham from the ANU Research School of Biology says it wasn’t difficult to see the benefits in the two disciplines coming together.

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Two smiling men wearing business attire
Monday, 09 May 2022
  • Career story

Good friends Rahul Ravindranathan and Aniruddha Deshpande didn’t know one another until they found themselves on the same journey from India to Canberra to study a Master of Energy Change at ANU.

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A woman stands in front of an autumn-coloured tree, facing the camera.
Monday, 09 May 2022
  • Student profile

Meet the PhD researcher exploring how bacterial proteins could hold the key to reducing our reliance on fossil fuels.

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Monday, 09 May 2022
  • Media release

An ANU spin-out company whose technology will help future moon landings and could one day lead to flying cars has been bought out by one of Australia's leading navigation firms in a deal worth $40 million.

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Dr Ana Casas Ramos outside in front of a tree and small garden.
Friday, 06 May 2022
  • Research story

When a volcanic rock split in two in Japan recently, what happened? Mythologically & geologically speaking.

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Friday, 06 May 2022
  • Media release

Researchers have discovered why malaria parasites are vulnerable to some drug therapies but resistant to others, offering scientists another piece of the puzzle in the global fight against the disease.

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Tuesday, 03 May 2022
  • Media release

Tasmania has become one of the first jurisdictions in the world to reduce their carbon dioxide (CO₂) emissions and increase removals to become net carbon negative.

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