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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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Water flowing creek
Tuesday, 27 Aug 2024
  • Analysis and opinion

What types of chemicals are actually considered “forever chemicals”? And how should we deal with the escalating threat they pose?

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Aerial ANU photo
Tuesday, 27 Aug 2024
  • News

Researchers from ANU received a total funding of $8 million across 17 projects in the latest round of the Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) scheme.

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Stargazing at Parliament House
Monday, 26 Aug 2024
  • Student profile

ANU PhD scholar Peter Swanton is using Indigenous knowledge of our night skies to unlock the secrets of our universe, and inspiring young people along the way.

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Beetles
Friday, 23 Aug 2024
  • News

Despite thriving in diverse environments for hundreds of millions of years, little was known about the darkling beetles evolution. Scientists at ANU and CSIRO have uncovered the truth.

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Penguin antarctica
Thursday, 22 Aug 2024
  • Analysis and opinion

New research shows Antarctica’s coastlines more connected to land in the Southern Hemisphere than previously thought.

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Person in physics lab
Wednesday, 21 Aug 2024
  • News

Researchers have come up with a radical new algorithm to significantly boost the performance of quantum computers in certain problems, and also show that classical solutions can be just as good in other circumstances.

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Man in a lab
Friday, 16 Aug 2024
  • News

Cholesterol is the key to tricking malaria parasites into ingesting a fatal dose of drugs and ridding patients of the potentially fatal disease, new ANU research has found.

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star cluster
Tuesday, 13 Aug 2024
  • Analysis and opinion

Astronomers observed the radiation of a dense star cluster and achieved a scientific first: measuring how quickly these particles change direction due to fluctuations in interstellar magnetic fields.

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A woman with pink hair and holding a clipboard standing in some bushy grass
Tuesday, 13 Aug 2024
  • Student profile

Michelle Littlefair is a PhD student at the ANU Fenner School of Environment and Society researching frogs in agricultural landscapes. She is also a dancer who uses her performances to spread awareness about frog declines. We spoke to her about how frogs have become such a large part of her life.

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