X Is Making a Controversial Change, and One of Its Rivals Gained 1.2 Million New Users in 2 Days — Here's Why

X alternative Bluesky has surged to the top of the Apple app charts as X makes a controversial change.

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It’s Time for Americans to Get Over It and Embrace the Bidet

How cleaner butts can get us to a cleaner planet.

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Slow-spinning radio neutron star breaks all the rules

Australian scientists from the University of Sydney and Australia's national science agency, CSIRO, have detected what is likely a neutron star spinning slower than any other ever measured.

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Australian researchers discover what turned Earth into a snowball 700m years ago

More than 700 million years ago, planet Earth was plunged into a 57-million-year-long ice age. Australian scientists led by Dr Adriana Dutkiewicz and Professor Dietmar Müller at the University of Sydney now have an answer why this happened.

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The Man Who Invented a Technology Used Billions of Times a Day Doesn't Get Credit for It. Now He's Setting the Record Straight.

Engineer Paul McEnroe led the IBM team that developed the UPC still in use today. His memoir 'Barcode' unpacks the journey and why another man got recognition.

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The Man Who Invented a Technology Used Billions of Times a Day Doesn't Get Credit for It. Now He's Setting the Record Straight.

Engineer Paul McEnroe led the IBM team that developed the UPC still in use today. His memoir 'Barcode' unpacks the journey and why another man got recognition.

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The Man Who Invented a Technology Used Billions of Times a Day Doesn't Get Credit for It. Now He's Setting the Record Straight.

Engineer Paul McEnroe led the IBM team that developed the UPC still in use today. His memoir 'Barcode' unpacks the journey and why another man got recognition.

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Scientists use quantum device to slow chemical process down by 100 billion times

In a world-first experimental result, scientists at the University of Sydney have used a quantum computer to coax an atom to behave the same way as a photo-chemical process that underpins the speed of human vision and solar energy harvesting - only at speeds 100 billion times slower than in nature.

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