It’s increasingly difficult to move about – both in the physical world and online – without being tracked.
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A mathematician explains how language can keep your online accounts safe and pinpoint your location on the planet.
Even a burner phone paid for with cash can reveal your identity and where you’ve been. A data privacy expert explains.
Many eligible Australians are not partaking in care to protect their health. Why?
One of the oldest industries, fishing, is entering the world of advanced analytics and data-driven planning. With oceans under stress and key fish stocks dwindling, can precision fishing help?
Every few centuries the Sun blasts the Earth with a huge amount of high-energy particles. If it were to happen today, it would wreak havoc on technology.
Space weather can affect satellites in a number of different ways, from frying electronics to increasing drag in the atmosphere.
Nigeria-South Africa bi-national commission is a laudable initiative but missing the space cooperation element.
It was the first time a bird has removed a tracking device, and the second time a bird species showed cooperative ‘rescue’ behaviour.
Satellites impact our lives in many different ways, and some of these may surprise you.
Facial recognition, social media and location tracking give law enforcement a leg up in a monumental investigation.
Over the coming decade, the arrival of constellations of small satellites will reshape the space industry. It constitutes a paradigm shift, particularly in terms of data gathering and processing.
Avoiding drones’ prying eyes can be as complicated as donning a high-tech hoodie and as simple as ducking under a tree.
Researchers have made some of the most accurate clocks imaginable in recent years, but the trick is harnessing those clocks to electronics. Using lasers to tune microwaves bridges the gap.
Releasing balloons at weddings and other celebrations is festive, until they break into pieces and become plastic pollution. A citizen science project is spotlighting the problem.
It’s not all about the cost of treatment – and this is something the next government will need to address.
Putting driverless cars on the road safely is hard enough. Doing it in the air is much more difficult.
Scientific inspiration struck a geologist after many walks through the woods in New York and New England. These ruins hold the secret of where the compass pointed north when they were built centuries ago.
Every device that you use, every company you do business with, every online account you create – they all collect data about you and analyze it to figure out minute details of your life.
If you want to really learn your way around a new place, paper maps still trump digital options.
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Associate Professor, RMIT University
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Professor of Polar Geodesy and ARC Laureate Fellow, University of Tasmania
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Professor of Computer Networking, University of Technology Sydney
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Senior Scientist in Geodesy, University of Tasmania
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Professor of Cyber Security and Policy, Tufts University
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Andrew Dempster is a Friend of The Conversation.
Director, Australian Centre for Space Engineering Research; Professor, School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications, UNSW
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