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The Joker

Joker: Folie à Deux as ‘ruin porn’ – how the new sequel plays with duplication and disintegration

What can we learn from the Joker character about our cultural fascination with duplication and disintegration?

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Goanna tracks
Friday, 27 Sep 2024
  • Analysis and opinion

For many years, scientists have been working with Indigenous people in the desert to record these observations in a systematic way. New research collates this data.

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Man in lab
Wednesday, 25 Sep 2024
  • News

New ANU research could offer a new way to source in-demand rare earth elements, which are crucial to developing renewable energy technologies.

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Wheat in a lab
Wednesday, 25 Sep 2024
  • Analysis and opinion

Discussions about the rules governing genetic technology in New Zealand remain complex. But they need not be marked by conflict, as long as people’s views and values are genuinely considered.

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Time
Monday, 23 Sep 2024
  • Analysis and opinion

Society says time is money; but ANU physicist Peter Riggs says aspects of time might not even be real at all.

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Dog and woman
Thursday, 12 Sep 2024
  • Research story

This frisbee-obsessed, four-legged ecologist has a special role to play in her owner's PhD research.

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Headshot of a woman
Thursday, 12 Sep 2024
  • News

Cities and businesses have the power to play a crucial role and become the “stewards” of critical Earth systems by demonstrating how they can reduce their environmental impact on the planet, scientists say in a new report.

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island
Friday, 06 Sep 2024
  • News

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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Headshot of a man
Tuesday, 03 Sep 2024
  • News

A doughnut-shaped region thousands of kilometres beneath our feet within Earth’s liquid core has been discovered by ANU scientists, providing new clues about the dynamics of our planet’s magnetic field.

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Headshot of a woman
Thursday, 29 Aug 2024
  • Academic profile

Climate scientist Dr Georgy Falster is demystifying what it's like to study and work in science, one letter at a time.

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