Top Hackernews posts from theconversation.com
- 280M e-bikes and mopeds are cutting demand for oil far more than electric cars (theconversation.com)
- Cycling is more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities (theconversation.com)
- Google Chrome just rolled out a new way to track you and serve ads (theconversation.com)
- Nuclear physicist explains why fusion ignition is hailed as a major breakthrough (theconversation.com)
- Online abuse: banning anonymous social media accounts is not the answer (theconversation.com)
- Building telescopes on the Moon could transform astronomy (theconversation.com)
- Years of fighting every wildfire helped fuel the Western megafires of today (theconversation.com)
- Nearsightedness is at epidemic levels – and the problem begins in childhood (theconversation.com)
- 70 years ago, an Anglo-US coup condemned Iran to decades of oppression (theconversation.com)
- One year on, El Salvador’s Bitcoin experiment has proven a failure (theconversation.com)
- First gene therapy for Tay-Sachs disease successfully given to two children (theconversation.com)
- Stable pseudonyms create a more civil environment than real names: study (2021) (theconversation.com)
- Feral desert donkeys are digging wells, giving water to parched wildlife (2021) (theconversation.com)
- 20-Minute Neighborhoods (theconversation.com)
- Salad Fingers and the dawn of ‘weird YouTube’ (theconversation.com)
- Moon’s top layer has enough oxygen to sustain 8B people for 100k years (theconversation.com)
- I no longer grade my students’ work, and I wish I had stopped sooner (theconversation.com)
- Linguists have identified a new English dialect that’s emerging in South Florida (theconversation.com)
- Traffic engineers build roads relying on outdated research, faulty data (theconversation.com)
- Safety benefits of roundabouts (theconversation.com)
- ‘Inert’ ingredients in pesticides may be more toxic to bees than thought (theconversation.com)
- We've spotted a planet surviving its dying star (theconversation.com)
- Methane under the seabed is thawing as oceans warm (theconversation.com)
- When radio was king, many outlets chose to stop broadcasting Father Coughlin (theconversation.com)
- Helium is essential but nonrenewable and difficult to recycle (theconversation.com)
- Spyware can infect your phone or computer via the ads you see online – report (theconversation.com)
- Flawed data led to a connection between time spent on devices and mental health (theconversation.com)
- Records of Pompeii's survivors have been found (theconversation.com)
- The problem with reinforced concrete (2016) (theconversation.com)
- State-backed manipulation rampant on social media (theconversation.com)
- People who are isolated from others do worse on cognitive tests: new research (theconversation.com)
- Remove left turns for less dangerous city traffic (theconversation.com)
- Tinnitus Seems Linked with Sleep (theconversation.com)
- Honeybee clustering when it's cold is a distress behavior: study (theconversation.com)
- Higher fees, more ads: streaming cashes in by using the old tactics of cable TV (theconversation.com)
- Why can’t we remember being born or our first words? (theconversation.com)
- Cars are a 'privacy nightmare on wheels' (theconversation.com)
- Radioactive traces in tree rings reveal Earth’s history of ‘radiation storms’ (theconversation.com)
- A crucial idea for silicon PV cells was excluded by a patent for 20 years (theconversation.com)
- Dangerous chemicals found in recycled plastics, making them unsafe for use (theconversation.com)
- ChatGPT is a data privacy nightmare (theconversation.com)
- How Swahili became Africa's most spoken language (theconversation.com)
- Summer 2021 has changed our understanding of extreme weather (theconversation.com)
- Backyard hens’ eggs contain 40 times more lead on average than shop eggs (theconversation.com)
- NASA clears the air: No evidence that UFOs are aliens (theconversation.com)
- How Australians made the early internet their own (theconversation.com)
- Starlink satellites are 'leaking' signals that interfere with radio telescopes (theconversation.com)
- Birmingham council's 'equal pay' bankruptcy provided cover for Oracle disaster (theconversation.com)
- Drink less, exercise more – advice on pandemic living from an 18th-century poem (theconversation.com)
- Music painted on wall of a Venetian orphanage will be heard 250 years later (theconversation.com)
- Earth’s magnetic field broke down 42k years ago, caused sudden climate change (theconversation.com)
- 50 years ago, an artist exhibited an invented Iron Age civilization (theconversation.com)
- Can deep learning help mathematicians build intuition? (theconversation.com)
- Volcanoes, plague, famine and endless winter: Welcome to 536 (theconversation.com)
- An unidentified illicit drug has been discovered by Australian chemists (theconversation.com)
- Botanists are disappearing – just when the world needs them most (theconversation.com)
- Poverty is linked to poorer brain development but reading can help counteract it (theconversation.com)
- Coffee won’t give you extra energy, just borrow a bit that you’ll pay for later (theconversation.com)
- Young Australians just won a human rights case against an enormous coal mine (theconversation.com)
- Car, gas industry knew about health risks of lead, sold it for 100 years anyway (theconversation.com)
- Fungal toxins are widespread in European wheat (theconversation.com)
- Who Funds the Taliban? (theconversation.com)
- How much time should you spend sitting versus standing? (theconversation.com)
- A new, thin-lensed telescope design could far surpass James Webb (theconversation.com)
- Depression, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder linked with ancient viral DNA (theconversation.com)
- Intel can’t grow profits in a global chip shortage (theconversation.com)
- Only walking for exercise? (theconversation.com)
- Only the richest ancient Athenians paid taxes (theconversation.com)
- Driverless cars won’t be good for the environment if they lead to more auto use (theconversation.com)
- Why we should leave old oil rigs in the sea, and why we don’t (theconversation.com)
- Ultra-processed foods: largest ever review shows many ill effects on health (theconversation.com)
- Is capitalism dead? Yanis Varoufakis thinks it is – and he knows who killed it (theconversation.com)
- Why hundreds of decades-old yet vital drugs are nearly impossible to find (theconversation.com)
- Mechanical neural network can learn and change its physical properties (theconversation.com)
- Tiredness of life: the growing phenomenon in western society (theconversation.com)
- Vegan diet has 30% of the environmental impact of high-meat diet, major study (theconversation.com)
- Australian magpies help each other to remove tracking devices (theconversation.com)
- Universities should return to oral exams in the AI and ChatGPT era (theconversation.com)
- Japan’s love affair with the fax machine (2021) (theconversation.com)
- Documentary spurs a new look at the case of the first gene-edited babies (theconversation.com)
- The 'Dead Internet Theory' (theconversation.com)
- Ancient soldiers used sound to frighten and confuse their enemies (2022) (theconversation.com)
- Japan’s love affair with the fax machine (2021) (theconversation.com)
- I helped select the Nobel laureates in physics (theconversation.com)
- Thin, bacteria-coated fibers could lead to self-healing concrete (theconversation.com)
- Non-native English speaking scientists work much harder just to keep up (theconversation.com)
- Tiny crystal films could make night vision an everyday reality (theconversation.com)
- Solar cycle is more powerful and surprising than predicted (theconversation.com)
- The leap year is February 29, not December 32 due to a Roman calendar quirk (theconversation.com)
- 'No cash accepted' signs are bad news for unbanked Americans (theconversation.com)
- New research shows Māori adapted quickly in the face of rapid climate change (theconversation.com)
- ChatGPT robs students of motivation to write and think for themselves (theconversation.com)
- The gas industry sponsored Julia Child's TV kitchen (theconversation.com)
- Immune cells fighting cancer get exhausted within hours of encountering tumors (theconversation.com)
- Boeing needs to get real: the 737 MAX should probably be scrapped (theconversation.com)
- Oil firms forced to consider climate effects of new drilling, rules Norway court (theconversation.com)
- For 110 years, climate change has been in the news (theconversation.com)
- Colleges face gambling addiction among students as sports betting spreads (theconversation.com)