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Twisted light could dramatically boost internet speeds

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imageA new development could mean vastly increase data transfer over optical fibre cables.Shutterstock

Fibre optics allow for the communication of data at the speed of light.

But the amount of data that can be sent along any optic fibre is limited by how much information you can encode into the light wave travelling through it.

Currently, optic fibre...

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Politics podcast: Peter Whish-Wilson on the need for a royal commission into banks

  • Written by The Conversation Contributor

The global scandal surrounding the release of the Panama papers and Malcolm Turnbull’s criticism of Australian banks have put the spotlight on the often murky world of banking and finance. Greens finance spokesman Peter Whish-Wilson, who had a pre-parliamentary career on Wall Street, tells Michelle Grattan one reason he walked away from the...

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  1. Death of a partner can endanger your heart health
  2. BBSW – too dumb to understand?
  3. Indigenous youth with foetal alcohol spectrum disorder need Indigenous-run alternatives to prison
  4. We've found a Shakespeare folio but a swag of original plays are still missing
  5. New relaxed drone regulations will help the industry take off
  6. If not Gonski funding, then what?
  7. Do women take their husband's surname after marriage because of biology?
  8. High housing costs create worries for city tourism and hospitality
  9. Lessons in living heritage from Tokyo to Adelaide
  10. Virtual reality brings new dimension to conservation
  11. Labor takes lead in Newspoll as state income tax plan bombs
  12. Superannuation 'objective' likely to be captured by industry
  13. Coral Bleaching Taskforce: more than 1,000 km of the Great Barrier Reef has bleached
  14. We can't trust drug companies to wine, dine and educate doctors about the drugs they prescribe
  15. Invisible influence: why sales reps are forming relationships with nurses
  16. Hillary Clinton as president will not necessarily be a feminist coup
  17. Nudges, not legislation will drive people to save more for retirement
  18. The banking sector can do its bit to combat family violence
  19. How ancient Aboriginal star maps have shaped Australia's highway network
  20. Turnbull needs to act on bank royal commission to boost his credibility on the unions
  21. Politics podcast: Glenn Lazarus on the government's industrial relations legislation
  22. The Carmichael mine lease shows that decisions on coal need a much wider perspective
  23. Weekly Dose: ecstasy, the party drug that could be used to treat PTSD
  24. Banking – the culture wars
  25. Banks get a bollocking from Turnbull on ethics
  26. Hidden housemates: Australia's huge and hairy huntsman spiders
  27. St Vincent's scandal: what is cancer chemotherapy and why is correct dosing important?
  28. How council mergers and reforms imperil local government democracy
  29. Higher education policies could result in big increase to federal debt: experts respond
  30. The Walking Dead: why that final point-of-view shot tells us nothing
  31. Panama Papers' dodgy middlemen are nothing new, as our own tax scandals show
  32. Trees versus light rail: we need to rethink skewed urban planning values
  33. Benefits of the census retaining names and addresses should outweigh privacy fears
  34. The leakers of Panama
  35. Online retailers yet to harness big social data
  36. How secure is your smartphone's lock screen?
  37. Don’t believe everything you see on TV: hypnosis is less far fetched and far more important
  38. Reforms to Victoria's family violence responses must close the web and bring perpetrators into view
  39. Speaking with: Rhonda Itaoui on navigating the city as a young Muslim
  40. Development banks threaten to unleash an infrastructure tsunami on the environment
  41. 'Our man elsewhere': Alan Moorehead in war and peace
  42. Shorten targets principals in offensive against Turnbull on government schools
  43. Four-year federal terms are too hard, but what about making the three-year term fixed?
  44. The Hobbit gets a little older, and science a little wiser
  45. Boosting Indigenous-only services alone won't end Aboriginal family violence
  46. What will the scrapping of Queensland's anti-bikie laws mean for organised crime?
  47. Airline emissions and the case for a carbon tax on flight tickets
  48. Panama Papers: information sharing could bust open secretive companies in tax havens
  49. Cyber justice: how technology is supporting victim-survivors of rape
  50. The off-topic Conversation #87
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