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Tech News: 5 Things to Know in Australia Today
From a Telstra data breach to a move away from lightning cable charging, here are five things headlining tech news today in Australia.
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Sleep Tight Knowing There Are 20 Quadrillion Ants on Earth and They Weigh More Than All the Birds and Mammals Combined
Have you ever wondered exactly how many ants live on Earth? Possibly not, but it’s certainly a question we’ve asked ourselves. Our research published today provides an approximate answer. We conservatively estimate our planet harbours about 20 quadrillion ants. That’s 20 thousand million millions, or in numerical form, 20,000,000,000,000,000 (20 with 15 zeroes). We further…
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Stop What You’re Doing and Look at This Tiny Bird Wearing a GPS Backpack for Science
There’s a plan to save the plains wanderer from extinction that includes tiny solar backpacks. It’s utterly adorable.
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Snoozing Penguins and Urban Flamingos Win Bird Photographer of the Year Awards
Every Fall, the Bird Photographer of the Year competition celebrates the diversity and beauty of the creatures that constitute class Aves. The contest is open to hobbyists around the globe, and in 2022 entrants submitted over 20,000 images of feathered friends of all kinds: Some swim, some soar, some burrow, and they are all actually…