Why and how Morse code has survived for 175 years

Morse code works whether flashing a spotlight or blinking your eyes – or even tapping on a smartphone touchscreen.

Eddie King, The Conversation

· May 22, 2019 · 11:30 pm

The traditional British red telephone booth is undergoing a 21st-century makeover

Display screens for advertising, USB ports wifi connectivity et al are in the pipeline.

Nigel Linge, The Conversation

· Dec 20, 2016 · 11:30 pm

Watch: How vision and hearing-impaired people communicate with each other

It may seem tricky but there are many ways of doing it. And technology has helped.

Scroll Staff

· Dec 08, 2016 · 11:00 am

From ‘Huh?’ to ‘Who?’: the universal utterances that keep us talking

The discovery that 'Huh?' crops up in many languages may have won the researchers an Ig Nobel Prize. But they found much more than that in their search for the universals in language.

Nick Enfield, The Conversation

· Oct 09, 2015 · 11:30 pm

Tianjin disaster takes social news sharing to new levels in China

Social media is rewriting patterns of communication in China.

Tim Dwyer and Weiwei Xu, The Conversation

· Aug 26, 2015 · 06:40 am