Astrophysics

Newly discovered smoking stars emit huge clouds and we don't know why

Newly discovered smoking stars emit huge clouds and we ...

SIN Jan 26, 2024 0 2

A never-before-seen type of star that puffs out enormous clouds challenges our i...

Japan's rolling and hopping lunar rovers send back images of the moon

Japan's rolling and hopping lunar rovers send back imag...

SIN Jan 26, 2024 0 28

Japan’s Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) didn’t last long after it lan...

Mysterious black hole jets may be the source of powerful cosmic rays

Mysterious black hole jets may be the source of powerfu...

SIN Jan 26, 2024 0 4

Observations of the microquasar SS 433 provide clues to how these small black ho...

Silicon Valley’s top AI models are terrible at rebus wordplay puzzles

Silicon Valley’s top AI models are terrible at rebus wo...

SIN Jan 26, 2024 0 4

Rebus puzzles provide wordplay challenges involving both images and text, and th...

Tiny marsupials sacrifice sleep for sex during the breeding season

Tiny marsupials sacrifice sleep for sex during the bree...

SIN Jan 25, 2024 0 6

Antechinus males only live for one breeding season, so they give up 3 hours of s...

Robot dinosaur tests surprising theory about the evolution of feathers

Robot dinosaur tests surprising theory about the evolut...

SIN Jan 25, 2024 0 3

Experiments with a robotic dinosaur suggest feathers may have evolved to startle...

Owls may actually be able to turn their heads a full 360 degrees

Owls may actually be able to turn their heads a full 36...

SIN Jan 25, 2024 0 3

Owls are famously good at rotating their heads, but now anatomical findings sugg...

Pancake-like comets may be made by whirling clouds of pebbles

Pancake-like comets may be made by whirling clouds of p...

SIN Jan 25, 2024 0 22

We keep finding pancake-like objects in the solar system and it could be because...

Menstruation isn't dirty, so let's drop terms like sanitary towels

Menstruation isn't dirty, so let's drop terms like sani...

SIN Jan 25, 2024 0 4

Describing menstrual products using euphemistic language such as "feminine hygie...

Exquisite Jurassic fossils reveal cannibalism in ancient fish

Exquisite Jurassic fossils reveal cannibalism in ancien...

SIN Jan 25, 2024 0 4

Three fossils of Pachycormus fish from the dinosaur era feature smaller members ...

Wearable device monitors tumour size and displays it in an app

Wearable device monitors tumour size and displays it in...

SIN Jan 25, 2024 0 3

A wearable device that sticks to the skin can constantly measure the size of cer...

Retinal images could predict future risk of heart or lung disease

Retinal images could predict future risk of heart or lu...

SIN Jan 25, 2024 0 3

People with unusually thin retinas are at greater risk of later developing bronc...

Robot avatar lets people see and feel things remotely t...

SIN Jan 25, 2024 0 22

A person wearing a VR headset and haptic feedback gloves can control the iCub 3 ...

Toxic mud from aluminium production can be used to make greener steel

Toxic mud from aluminium production can be used to make...

SIN Jan 25, 2024 0 3

Producing steel generates huge amounts of CO2 emissions. These could be reduced ...

Syphilis-like bacteria found in 2000-year-old human remains in Brazil

Syphilis-like bacteria found in 2000-year-old human rem...

SIN Jan 24, 2024 0 3

Four skeletons in a prehistoric burial site in Brazil contain the DNA of bacteri...

US states had 65,000 rape-related pregnancies after banning abortion

US states had 65,000 rape-related pregnancies after ban...

SIN Jan 24, 2024 0 3

Estimates suggest that there were tens of thousands of pregnancies as a result o...

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