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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 triptych of images shows a woman photographed in black and white, her facial expressions different in each image. She is wearing glasses and looks both serious and sad.
Monday, 20 Dec 2021
  • Analysis and opinion

Researchers have found that scientists are experiencing diverse, complex, and often contrasting emotions about the fate of the planet.

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Friday, 17 Dec 2021
  • Media release

A stunning image captured by researchers at The Australian National University (ANU) and Australia's national science agency, CSIRO, shows one of the Milky Way's closest neighbours in new detail.

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Friday, 17 Dec 2021
  • Media release

Deeply entrenched scientific beliefs that for more than a century have explained why more men than women are high achievers because of biology are not backed up by evidence, according to new research.

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An older person stands next to a tree, talking to some children
Friday, 17 Dec 2021
  • Media release

A world-first study warns 1,500 endangered languages could no longer be spoken by the end of this century.

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Two people stand in front of a rocky wall, showing stripy layers
Tuesday, 14 Dec 2021
  • Media release

How is our Earth's inner core like a cake? According to Professor Hrvoje Tkalčić and Sheng Wang, there are more similarities than you might think.

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Parrot with a grey body and red head
Friday, 10 Dec 2021
  • Student profile

They are the faunal emblem of the Australian Capital Territory, but enthusiasm for the gang-gang cockatoo stretches far beyond the Canberra bubble.

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Thursday, 09 Dec 2021
  • Media release

The chemical in moth balls, naphthalene, will be tested in space in a new satellite rocket propulsion system, Bogong, developed at The Australian National University (ANU).

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The Southern Cross star constellation
Tuesday, 07 Dec 2021
  • Media release

An international team of astronomers from Australia, the United States and Europe has for the first time unlocked the interior structure of Beta Crucis - a bright blue giant star that features on the flags of Australia, Brazil, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea and Samoa.

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Wednesday, 01 Dec 2021
  • Media release

The hunt for gravitational waves, ripples in space and time caused by major cosmic cataclysms, could help solve one of the Universe's other burning mysteries - boson clouds and whether they are a leading contender for dark matter.

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