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Spotify may soon dominate music the way Google does search — this is why

  • Written by: Paul X. McCarthy, Adjunct Professor, UNSW
imageFrom European beginnings, Spotify looks set to take the crown of the #1 music streaming service in the US later this year.dougliz/flickr, CC BY-SA

While competition online starts the same way as that in offline markets, my research shows it often settles very differently online.

Both have seen lots of competitors emerge in a new area underpinned by...

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Cows in Antarctica? How one expedition milked them for all their worth

  • Written by: Hanne E.F. Nielsen, PhD Candidate in Antarctic Representations, University of Tasmania
imageCelebrity cows: Southern Girl and Iceberg enjoy a 'hay cocktail' at the Commodore Hotel in New York.Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center, contact for re-use

Domestic animals are rarely associated with Antarctica. However, before non-native species (bar humans) were excluded from the continent in the 1990s, many travelled to the far south. These...

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Dancing brittle stars tell an ancient tale of life and death in brutal seas

  • Written by: Kenneth McNamara, Director, Sedgwick Museum, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge
imageFossilised brittle stars found in Western Australia provide clues about evolution of life underwater. Ken McNamara , Author provided

Strangely elegant and beautiful, brittle stars are a group of starfish-like sea creatures. They exist in every colour under the sun, and some even shine with bioluminescence in the dark.

The oceans of the world today...

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  2. On North Korea, Turnbull locks Australia into the unpredictability of unpredictable players
  3. Turnbull's North Korea intervention could be his own 'all the way with LBJ' moment
  4. Why kids knock over drinks and must be careful around cars
  5. Pregnant women shouldn't start taking vitamin B3 just yet: reports it prevents miscarriage and birth defects are overblown
  6. A memo to Google – firing employees with conservative views is anti-diversity
  7. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on same-sex marriage going postal
  8. We frown on voters' ambivalence about democracy, but they might just save it
  9. Powerful and ignored: the history of the electric drill in Australia
  10. Love of bookshops in a time of Amazon and populism
  11. Politics podcast: Derryn Hinch on surviving the Senate
  12. Clearing homeless camps compounds the violation of human rights and entrenches the problem
  13. Friday essay: political cartooning – the end of an era
  14. Vital Signs: that feeling you get when the economy can't be explained by economic models
  15. Is Usain Bolt the greatest athlete of all time? That's not what the numbers say
  16. Both men and women need strong bones, but their skeletons grow differently across ages
  17. People, palm oil, pulp and planet: four perspectives on Indonesia's fire-stricken peatlands
  18. Grattan on Friday: Shorten's campaigning in postal ballot might help protect a vulnerable Turnbull
  19. Climate change has changed the way I think about science. Here’s why
  20. Using the ABS to conduct a same-sex marriage poll is legally shaky and lacks legitimacy
  21. New rules for retailers, but don’t sit there waiting for your electricity bill to go down
  22. 'Fire and fury': Trump’s impulsive rhetoric on North Korea threatens the region
  23. Banking with a chatbot: a battle between convenience and security
  24. Fee increases still on the table after Senate committee reports on higher education changes
  25. How safe are heartburn medications and who should use them?
  26. The off-topic Conversation #132
  27. ASEAN's mid-life crisis?
  28. Old teeth from a rediscovered cave show humans were in Indonesia more than 63,000 years ago
  29. Why bankers so often fail to comply with policies and regulations
  30. The stigma of sex work comes with a high cost
  31. Reward or punishment: finding the best match for your child's personality
  32. What happens in the womb affects our health as adults, but girls and boys respond differently
  33. No harm done? 'Sexual entertainment districts' make the city a more threatening place for women
  34. Tony Abbott morphs same sex-marriage into a culture war issue
  35. Southeast Europe swelters through another heatwave with a human fingerprint
  36. Prostate cancer testing: has the bubble burst?
  37. How we can reduce dependency on opioid painkillers in rural and regional Australia
  38. How (and why) we lock accounts at The Conversation
  39. Some workers 'cyberloaf' if they think they can get away with it, so employers need to get creative
  40. Hanson set to refer Malcolm Roberts to the High Court over dual citizenship questions
  41. Speaking with: Nancy Pachana on planning for an active and engaged ageing population
  42. Explainer: how do Australia's proposed citizenship laws compare internationally?
  43. Grumbles over governance threaten to disrupt football's growth in Australia
  44. 'Gene drives' could wipe out whole populations of pests in one fell swoop
  45. As local networks retreat, Netflix is filling the gap in teen TV
  46. The NBN needs subsidies if we all want to benefit from it
  47. Radical feminists' objection to sex work is profoundly un-feminist
  48. Curious Kids: How do snakes make an 'sssssss' sound with their tongue poking out?
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