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How I’m training to become Australia’s first woman astronaut Becoming Australia’s first woman astronaut isn’t easy My path to PoSSUM As a female STEM and legal professional, my past jobs included working as a research scientist in mining and metals for BHP-Billiton, Rio Tinto, and the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO) — but I always loved space. After combining my science degree with two law degrees, I won a scholarship for the International Space University....

How I’m training to become Australia’s first woman astronaut Becoming Australia’s first woman astronaut isn’t easy My path to PoSSUM As a female STEM and legal professional, my past jobs included working as a research scientist in mining and metals for BHP-Billiton, Rio Tinto, and the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO) — but I always loved space. After combining my science degree with two law degrees, I won a scholarship for the International Space University....

How Joe Rogan became the poster child for Spotify’s podcast business To Spotify, Rogan’s cross-partisan, youthful, mass appeal is hard to resist Ideological whiplash When the Federal Communications Commission introducedthe Fairness Doctrinein 1949, radio and television broadcasters were required to present controversial ideas in a manner that reflected multiple perspectives. However, the combination of cable television, niche consumer targeting and President Ronald Reagan’s deregulatory FCCsucceeded in toppling the mandate. By 1987, conservative talk radio figures such asRush Limbaugh embraced fully partisan approachesto content creation and audience accumulation....

How long does an electric car battery last? Here’s what the industry says What are the insights old EVs can give us? Thankfully, we have some oldies on the road,like the early Nissan Leafs and Teslas, which are still going strong and disproving skeptics. A 2020 survey by consumer review magazine Which?found that EV batteries don’t degrade as much as previously feared. According to the 1,016 electric car owners surveyed,EVsthat were up to three years old showed only a 2% decline in battery capacity....

How machine learning could help develop cures for COVID-19 and other diseases This new technique to study complex diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease and COVID-19 could lead to new drugs for these diseases The big idea We combined a machine learning algorithm with knowledge gleaned from hundreds of biological experiments to developa techniquethat allows biomedical researchers to figure out the functions of the proteins that turn genes on and off in cells, called transcription factors....