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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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RV Investigator. Image credit: CSIRO
Wednesday, 07 Oct 2020
  • News

A team of Australian researchers are about to set off on a landmark voyage to discover more about the Earth beneath our oceans.

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Jennifer Zhu
Tuesday, 06 Oct 2020
  • Career story

ANU graduate Jennifer Zhu is helping grow Australia’s space industry.

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Dr Marta Yebra is using satellites to help manage and predict fires. Photo: Jamie Kidston
Thursday, 01 Oct 2020
  • News

Optus and The Australian National University (ANU) have joined forces to develop a revolutionary national system that aims to detect bushfires early.

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Possum
Thursday, 24 Sep 2020
  • News

Fire and logging are substantially reducing the number of hollow-bearing trees that threatened and critically endangered Australian mammals can use as homes, a new study from The Australian National University (ANU) warns.

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Bronwyn Wilkes holding a basket of fruit and vegetables
Monday, 21 Sep 2020
  • Research story

Beyond the convenience of skipping supermarket queues, it seems the humble fruit and veggie box can make some people feel, well, happier.

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Protest sign at demonstration
Monday, 21 Sep 2020
  • Analysis and opinion

It’s now more critical than ever that the people who are actually knowledgeable about the world’s crises speak out and represent that knowledge in public.

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An artist's impression of the Giant Magellan Telescope. Produced by M3 Engineering
Friday, 18 Sep 2020
  • News

The Giant Magellan Telescope project has received US$17.5 million from the US National Science Foundation (NSF).

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Monday, 14 Sep 2020
  • News

If you missed ANU Virtual Open Week or any of the Science sessions you had wanted to attend, you can watch them here.

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The cover of the Adelaide Surveyor General's Weather folios. Credit: National Archive of Australia - Adelaide
Tuesday, 08 Sep 2020
  • News

We are launching a new citizen science project to create Australia's longest daily weather record, beginning 1838.

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