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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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headshot of a man in a lab
Thursday, 03 Oct 2024
  • News

Forge Photonics, a start up company using gravitational wave detection technology has launched, setting its sights on the $A120 billion global market for autonomous vehicle navigation systems.

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The Joker
Thursday, 03 Oct 2024
  • Analysis and opinion

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

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Pluto and one of its moons
Wednesday, 02 Oct 2024
  • Analysis and opinion

Much mystery still surrounds Pluto and its moons. But in new research published in Nature Communications researchers announced they’ve found carbon dioxide and hydrogen peroxide on the surface of Pluto's largest moon, Charon.

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Two scientists in a computer lab
Tuesday, 01 Oct 2024
  • News

The Hunga Tonga underwater volcano was one of the largest volcanic eruptions in history, and now, two years later, new research from ANU has revealed its main trigger.

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Ishfahani Rusyda
Monday, 30 Sep 2024
  • Student profile

Ishfahani Rusyda is studying a Master of Science in Astronomy and Astrophysics. Particularly, she is doing research on supernovae cosmology!

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A bowl of soup, with numbers floating in the soup. There is also a spoon with a whole in it, the soup is spilling out from the hole with the number 100+.
Monday, 30 Sep 2024
  • Research story

Following a Blue Zone lifestyle is purported to help extend your lifespan. But do the numbers add up?

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Peopl in a lab
Monday, 30 Sep 2024
  • News

Scientists have created lasers from perfect crystals one hundredth of the diameter of a human hair.

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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 quantum lab
Friday, 27 Sep 2024
  • News

Scientists have created materials with surprising optical properties, from arrays of lego-like cubes, made of caesium lead tri-bromide.

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