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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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Tuesday, 09 Jun 2020
  • Analysis and opinion

Snow was once a regular feature of the southern Australian climate, but it has become less common because of climate change.

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A longhorn beetle (Rhytiphora).
Friday, 29 May 2020
  • News

Why judging a book by its cover has led to a tangled family tree for the longhorn beetle.

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Swimming
Wednesday, 27 May 2020
  • News

Congratulations to the 2021 As You See It! photography competition winners!
The 2021 competition uncovered some amazing images representing all aspects of ANU life that many of us can resonate with.

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A cosmic event captured by NASA.
Tuesday, 26 May 2020
  • News

A new infrared telescope built by ANU will monitor the entire southern sky in search of new cosmic events as they take place.

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Tuesday, 26 May 2020
  • Academic profile

We reached out to our science, health and medicine community to find out what helped them survive isolation.

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Artist's impression of a system of detectors along quantum circuits to monitor light particles. Image: Kai Wang, ANU
Friday, 22 May 2020
  • News

ANU will play a key role in shaping Australia's next-generation technology.

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Building with garden in foreground.
Thursday, 21 May 2020
  • Analysis and opinion

No other event in our lifetimes has brought such sudden, drastic loss to Australia’s biodiversity as the last bushfire season. Governments, researchers and conservationists have committed to the long road to recovery. But in those vast burnt landscapes, where do we start?

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Aerial view of ANU campus, showing buildings, ovals and Black Mountain.
Wednesday, 20 May 2020
  • Analysis and opinion

What is a pre-print and how should we be using them?

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The parched Murray Darling
Wednesday, 20 May 2020
  • Analysis and opinion

A major independent review has confirmed freshwater flows are vital to maintaining the health of the Murray River’s lower lakes.

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