Astrophysics

Surprising skeletons prompt a radical rethink of Egyptian pyramids

Surprising skeletons prompt a radical rethink of Egypti...

SIN Mar 18, 2025 0 56

For years, Egyptologists have assumed pyramid tombs were just for the rich – but...

Have we vastly underestimated the total number of people on Earth?

Have we vastly underestimated the total number of peopl...

SIN Mar 18, 2025 0 38

A new way of estimating rural populations has found that we may be undercounting...

Most quakes on Mars happen during the summer – and we don’t know why

Most quakes on Mars happen during the summer – and we d...

SIN Mar 17, 2025 0 107

NASA’s InSight lander recorded surprisingly large quakes that indicate Mars is m...

LHC finds intriguing new clues about our universe's antimatter mystery

LHC finds intriguing new clues about our universe's ant...

SIN Mar 17, 2025 0 47

Analysing the aftermath of particle collisions has revealed two new instances of...

Rolling boulders on Titan could threaten NASA's Dragonfly mission

Rolling boulders on Titan could threaten NASA's Dragonf...

SIN Mar 17, 2025 0 52

The wind on Saturn's largest moon is strong enough to blow around rocks of up to...

How a start-up plans to mine the moon for a rare form of helium

How a start-up plans to mine the moon for a rare form o...

SIN Mar 17, 2025 0 42

A private moon mission planned for 2027 will be the first step towards commercia...

Gravity may arise from quantumness of space

Gravity may arise from quantumness of space

SIN Mar 17, 2025 0 84

Scientists have long sought the particle that carries the force of gravity, but ...

Giant Milky Way-like galaxy formed unusually soon after the big bang

Giant Milky Way-like galaxy formed unusually soon after...

SIN Mar 17, 2025 0 56

The Big Wheel, discovered using the James Webb Space Telescope, formed just 2 bi...

What makes a good day a good day, according to science

What makes a good day a good day, according to science

SIN Mar 17, 2025 0 46

Surveys that ask thousands of people how they spend their time have revealed som...

The surprising new idea behind what sparked life on Earth

The surprising new idea behind what sparked life on Earth

SIN Mar 15, 2025 0 47

We may be starting to get a grasp on what kick-started life on Earth – and it co...

We may have discovered how dark oxygen is being made in the deep sea

We may have discovered how dark oxygen is being made in...

SIN Mar 15, 2025 0 50

A newly discovered mechanism could explain the shock finding last year that oxyg...

Mathematicians solve 125-year-old problem to unite key laws of physics

Mathematicians solve 125-year-old problem to unite key ...

SIN Mar 14, 2025 0 208

Can one single mathematical framework describe the motion of a fluid and the ind...

Starlink satellite part hit a Canadian farm when it fell from orbit

Starlink satellite part hit a Canadian farm when it fel...

SIN Mar 14, 2025 0 48

A failed launch left a batch of Starlink satellites in the wrong orbit last year...

Memory illusion makes you think events occurred earlier than they did

Memory illusion makes you think events occurred earlier...

SIN Mar 14, 2025 0 41

It can be difficult to recall exactly when a specific event happened, and now it...

AI scientists are sceptical that modern models will lead to AGI

AI scientists are sceptical that modern models will lea...

SIN Mar 14, 2025 0 64

In a survey of AI researchers, most say current AI models are unlikely to lead t...

Why the long history of calculating pi will never be completed

Why the long history of calculating pi will never be co...

SIN Mar 14, 2025 0 48

Building the full value of pi has been a project thousands of years in the makin...

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