Google has threatened to discontinue its search engine services in Australia over the government’s plans to force the search giant to pay news outlets for their content. Last year, Australia announced the plans as a way to halt the decline of news firms amid falling revenues during the coronavirus pandemic. But Google hit back, saying it was “deeply … Read more
A radio telescope located in the Australian outback has mapped approximately three million galaxies in just 300 hours, the country’s national science agency (CSIRO) has said. The Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) carried out a continuum survey to create a map of the universe. Most of the millions of star-like points on the map … Read more
A radio telescope located in the Australian outback has mapped approximately three million galaxies in just 300 hours, the country’s national science agency (CSIRO) has said. The Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) carried out a continuum survey to create a map of the universe. Most of the millions of star-like points on the map … Read more
Astronomers in Australia have discovered a new way to see the elusive dark matter haloes that surround galaxies. The new technique, created by researchers at the Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, draws on the effect called weak gravitational lensing – a feature of Einstein’s general theory of relativity. Scientists estimate that up to 85 per cent … Read more
Astronauts will soon be able to send high-speed data transmissions from space with the construction of a new optical communications station in Western Australia. The ground station has the potential to receive high-definition video footage in real time and will probably be how video from Nasa’s next Artemis mission to the Moon in 2024 is beamed back down … Read more
June 2 is actually the 153rd day of the year (154th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 212 days remaining until the end of the year. Republic Day, also known as Festa della Repubblica in Italian (Festival of the Republic), is a national holiday in Italy on June 2 each year. It celebrates the … Read more