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Think Seeing is Believing? Think Again

Think Seeing is Believing? Think Again

SIN Apr 10, 2024 0 2

We think that what we see represents stone-cold reality. Science has found out h...

Mathematician wins Turing award for harnessing randomness

Mathematician wins Turing award for harnessing randomness

SIN Apr 10, 2024 0 2

Avi Wigderson has won the 2023 Turing award for his work on understanding how ra...

Treating gum disease may ward off an irregular heartbeat

Treating gum disease may ward off an irregular heartbeat

SIN Apr 10, 2024 0 18

Inflamed gum tissue may allow bacteria in the mouth to enter the bloodstream, wh...

Phone batteries could last 50% longer if more 5G towers are built

Phone batteries could last 50% longer if more 5G towers...

SIN Apr 10, 2024 0 22

Adding more masts could reduce the overall energy use of phone networks by two-t...

Oral vaccine prevents recurring UTIs for nine years

Oral vaccine prevents recurring UTIs for nine years

SIN Apr 10, 2024 0 1

An oral vaccine in the form of a pineapple-flavoured spray prevented recurrent u...

NASA’s DC-8 Completes Final Mission, Set to Retire

NASA’s DC-8 Completes Final Mission, Set to Retire

SIN Apr 10, 2024 0 3

After 37 years of successful airborne science missions, NASA’s DC-8 aircraft com...

Australia’s Indigenous people were making pottery over 2000 years ago

Australia’s Indigenous people were making pottery over ...

SIN Apr 10, 2024 0 3

An excavation on an island in the Coral Sea shows that Indigenous Australians we...

Peter Higgs, physicist who theorised the Higgs boson, has died aged 94

Peter Higgs, physicist who theorised the Higgs boson, h...

SIN Apr 10, 2024 0 1

Nobel prizewinning theoretical physicist Peter Higgs has died aged 94. He propos...

Rural Americans Are Dying at Increasingly Higher Rates Than City Dwellers

Rural Americans Are Dying at Increasingly Higher Rates ...

SIN Apr 10, 2024 0 2

The urban-rural mortality rate gap in the U.S. is increasing, especially among y...

Recycle Your Eclipse Glasses to Share the Awe with Others

Recycle Your Eclipse Glasses to Share the Awe with Others

SIN Apr 10, 2024 0 3

The nonprofit Astronomers Without Borders is collecting gently used eclipse glas...

How Likely Is a Major Earthquake in New York City—And Is the City Prepared for It?

How Likely Is a Major Earthquake in New York City—And I...

SIN Apr 10, 2024 0 4

After an unexpected magnitude 4.8 earthquake rattled the New York City area, que...

Peter Higgs: Physicist who theorised the Higgs boson has died aged 94

Peter Higgs: Physicist who theorised the Higgs boson ha...

SIN Apr 10, 2024 0 1

Nobel prizewinning theoretical physicist Peter Higgs has died aged 94. He propos...

NASA Astronaut Loral O’Hara to Discuss Space Station Mission

NASA Astronaut Loral O’Hara to Discuss Space Station Mi...

SIN Apr 10, 2024 0 3

After spending six-and-a-half-months aboard the International Space Station, NAS...

One of the biggest mysteries of cosmology may finally be solved

One of the biggest mysteries of cosmology may finally b...

SIN Apr 9, 2024 0 4

The expansion rate of the universe, measured by the Hubble constant, has been on...

Through Astronaut Eyes, Virtual Reality Propels Gateway Forward

Through Astronaut Eyes, Virtual Reality Propels Gateway...

SIN Apr 9, 2024 0 1

NASA astronauts are using virtual reality to explore Gateway. When they slip on ...

Making Ultra-fast Electron Measurements in Multiple Directions to Reveal the Secrets of the Aurora

Making Ultra-fast Electron Measurements in Multiple Dir...

SIN Apr 9, 2024 0 3

The energetic electrons that drive the aurora borealis (the northern lights) hav...

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