AvatarThe Conversation AustraliaFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo1 day agoInstagram and Threads are limiting political content. This is terrible for democracytheconversation.com - Tama LeaverMeta’s Instagram and Threads apps are “slowly” rolling out a change that will no longer recommend political content by default. The company defines …
AvatarThe Conversation AustraliaFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo1 day agoQuantum computing just got hotter: 1 degree above absolute zerotheconversation.com - Andrew Dzurak and Andre Luiz Saraiva De OliveiraFor decades, the pursuit of quantum computing has struggled with the need for extremely low temperatures, mere fractions of a degree above absolute …
AvatarThe Conversation AustraliaFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo1 day agoA cosmic ‘speed camera’ just revealed the staggering speed of neutron star jets in a world firsttheconversation.com - James Miller-JonesHow fast can a neutron star drive powerful jets into space? The answer, it turns out, is about one-third the speed of light, as our team has just …
AvatarThe Conversation AustraliaFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo2 days agoBaltimore bridge collapse: a bridge engineer explains what happened, and what needs to changetheconversation.com - Colin CapraniWhen the container ship MV Dali, 300 metres long and massing around 100,000 tonnes, lost power and slammed into one of the support piers of the …
AvatarThe Conversation AustraliaFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo2 days agoAustralia just committed $207 million to a major satellite program. What is it, and why do we need it?theconversation.com - Cassandra SteerLast week, the federal minister for Resources and Northern Australia, Madeleine King, signed a A$207 million commitment with the United States in …
AvatarThe Conversation AustraliaFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo3 days agoWe went looking for glowing interstellar gas – and stumbled on 49 unknown galaxiestheconversation.com - Marcin GlowackiStars are born from huge clouds of mostly hydrogen gas floating in space. Astronomers like me study this gas because it helps us understand how stars …
AvatarThe Conversation AustraliaFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo3 days agoAlgorithms that predict crime are watching – and judging us by the cards we’ve been dealttheconversation.com - Tatiana DancyYour money, postcode, friends and family can make all the difference to how the criminal system treats you. The New South Wales police recently …
AvatarThe Conversation AustraliaFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo4 days agoAlternative proteins are here – the next 30 years could be crucial for NZ’s meat and dairy sectorstheconversation.com - Christopher Rosin and Hugh CampbellThe history of farming is seeded with technological “big bang” moments that have changed the trajectory of whole industries and countries. Some – such …
AvatarThe Conversation AustraliaFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo4 days agoWe have revealed a unique time capsule of Australia’s first coastal people from 50,000 years agotheconversation.com - Peter Veth and David W. Zeanah and Fiona Hook and Kane Ditchfield and Peter KendrickBarrow Island, located 60 kilometres off the Pilbara in Western Australia, was once a hill overlooking an expansive coast. This was the northwestern …
AvatarThe Conversation AustraliaFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo4 days ago‘The ghost has taken the spirit of the Moon’: how Torres Strait Islanders predict eclipsestheconversation.com - Duane Hamacher and David BosunIt’s eclipse season. The Sun, Earth and Moon are aligned so it’s possible for the Earth and Moon to cast each other into shadow. A faint lunar eclipse …
AvatarThe Conversation AustraliaFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoConspiracy theorist tactics show it’s too easy to get around Facebook’s content policiestheconversation.com - Amelia Johns and Emily Booth and Francesco Bailo and Marian-Andrei RizoiuDuring the COVID pandemic, social media platforms were swarmed by far-right and anti-vaccination communities that spread dangerous conspiracy …
AvatarThe Conversation AustraliaFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoPrestigious journals make it hard for scientists who don’t speak English to get published. And we all lose outtheconversation.com - Henry Arenas-CastroFor the first time in history, a single language dominates global scientific communication. But the actual production of knowledge continues to be a …