In a project not led by Professor Sheldon Cooper, researchers from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Mathematical and Statistical Frontiers have worked out why the Marvel Cinematic Universe is so popular

For readers in other galaxies, the MCU consists of films about super-heroes, Thor Ragnarok, Bertie Wooster, Dr Strange, the Incredible Hulk and so on. Matt Roughan, Lewis Mitchell and Tobin South (all Uni Adelaide) analysed stats on cast-size to find a correlation between number of characters and profitability. More heroes are good.

Just the sort of economy-growing research the government is keen on.