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Like a car aerial: Tuning in from the quietest place on the planet. In the extreme hush of the WA desert, a tiny team of scientists is engaged in an experiment of cosmic proportions. ~space astronomy.radio Article 2127 words 4 votes
Albert Einstein's boyhood proof of the Pythagorean Theorem ~science mathematics Article 2744 words 3 votes
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Battling fake accounts, Twitter to slash millions of followers ~tech social media Article 1154 words 7 votes
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A US jury may have sentenced a man to death because he’s gay. And the Justices don’t care. ~lgbt Article 692 words, published Jun 19 2018 17 votes
Defending democracy a generational struggle, Australian MPs warn ~news australia politics china Article 3 votes
Who's afraid of the big bad wolf scientist? ~science biology Article 5925 words, published Jul 5 2018 5 votes
Facebook’s push for facial recognition prompts privacy alarms ~tech facebook privacy social media Article 1585 words 14 votes
Anti-vaxxers are targeting a vaccine for a virus deadlier than ebola ~science medicine Article 4505 words 7 votes
Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan names son-in-law as treasury and finance minister ~finance economics Article 92 words 10 votes
US opposition to breast-feeding resolution stuns World Health officials ~health Article 1686 words 14 votes
Scott Pruitt resigns as US Environmental Protection Agency administrator ~enviro Article 1744 words 32 votes
US opposition to breast-feeding resolution stuns World Health officials ~health Article 1652 words 19 votes
How smart TVs in millions of US homes track more than what’s on tonight ~tech privacy Article 1949 words 17 votes
Tens of thousands of Australians who have given DNA samples to sites such as Ancestry.com could have their genetic data examined by police without their knowledge ~tech privacy Article 653 words 12 votes
Spiders use Earth's electric field to fly hundreds of miles ~science physics Article 888 words 17 votes
Sky-high deductibles broke the US health insurance system ~health healthcare Article 92 words 13 votes
Chinese hackers breach Australian National University, putting national security at risk ~tech security.national security.cyber Article 710 words 5 votes
Archbishop Philip Wilson’s closest bishop colleagues have advised him to resign following his jail sentence on Tuesday ~humanities religion Article 4 votes
The wood wide web: The world of trees underneath the surface ~science biology Article 878 words, published Aug 26 2016 6 votes
Tech’s ‘dirty secret’: The app developers sifting through your Gmail ~tech google privacy Article 82 words 11 votes
Economists worry we aren’t prepared for the fallout from automation ~finance economics Article 754 words 11 votes
Poland purges Supreme Court, and protesters take to streets ~news politics poland Article 1585 words 10 votes
Penalty shoot-outs are basically still crap-shoots ~sports.football Article 330 words, published Jun 29 2018 7 votes
A Foodora delivery rider is facing a test case at the Fair Work Commission that will determine whether food delivery riders are really employees ~food restaurants Article 710 words 5 votes
Elon Musk ordered Tesla engineers to stop doing a critical brake test on Model 3s ~transport Article 832 words 11 votes
Solid: From Tim Berners-Lee, a project to decentralize the web ~tech internet Article 3088 words 20 votes
Microwave mug recipes that prove no-fuss cooking for one can actually be great ~food recipes Article 673 words 6 votes
Tesla hits Model 3 manufacturing milestone, hours after deadline ~transport Article 846 words 23 votes
We're experiencing the biggest revolution in movie ticket prices in decades ~movies Article 689 words 8 votes
Manhunt underway after notorious French gangster Rédoine Faïd breaks free from jail in dramatic helicopter escape ~news france crime Article 150 words 8 votes
European Central Bank president Mario Draghi warns risks from trade war may be understated ~finance Article 92 words 6 votes