Astrophysics

Flatworm caught hunting and killing spider on its own web

Flatworm caught hunting and killing spider on its own web

SIN Oct 27, 2023 0 3

Flatworms are slow-moving predators with poor vision, but one of them managed to...

Fastest ever semiconductor could massively speed up computer chips

Fastest ever semiconductor could massively speed up com...

SIN Oct 27, 2023 0 30

A record-breaking superatomic semiconductor material allows particles to travers...

Our cells may boost their health by eating bacteria-killing viruses

Our cells may boost their health by eating bacteria-kil...

SIN Oct 27, 2023 0 2

Viruses that infect bacteria – called phages – are abundant in our bodies, and t...

Most mammals go through the menopause - if they live long enough

Most mammals go through the menopause - if they live lo...

SIN Oct 27, 2023 0 2

The majority of female mammals stop producing eggs long before the end of their ...

Migraines linked to rare genetic variants that could boost treatments

Migraines linked to rare genetic variants that could bo...

SIN Oct 27, 2023 0 1

We know that migraines, which are recurrent and sometimes debilitating headaches...

What time is the partial lunar eclipse of the full moon this weekend?

What time is the partial lunar eclipse of the full moon...

SIN Oct 26, 2023 0 1

The full moon on 28 October will have a red tinge for viewers in the UK, Europe,...

Cloud geoengineering could help us avoid major climate tipping points

Cloud geoengineering could help us avoid major climate ...

SIN Oct 26, 2023 0 20

A model predicts that marine cloud brightening would reduce the risk of some dis...

ChatGPT wrote code that can make databases leak sensitive information

ChatGPT wrote code that can make databases leak sensiti...

SIN Oct 26, 2023 0 2

Six AI tools, including OpenAI’s ChatGPT, were exploited to write code capable o...

Hurricane Otis rapidly intensified – why was it so hard to predict?

Hurricane Otis rapidly intensified – why was it so hard...

SIN Oct 26, 2023 0 3

All the weather models forecasted that Otis would make landfall as a tropical st...

Smart glasses that play sounds help people who are blind find objects

Smart glasses that play sounds help people who are blin...

SIN Oct 26, 2023 0 2

Smart glasses that play a specific noise when an object comes into their field o...

Roosters may be able to recognise themselves in a mirror

Roosters may be able to recognise themselves in a mirror

SIN Oct 26, 2023 0 3

Very few non-human animals have passed the mirror self-recognition test, but roo...

ADHD could be spotted by a score showing if you're easily distracted

ADHD could be spotted by a score showing if you're easi...

SIN Oct 26, 2023 0 16

Different measures of distractibility could be combined into a single "d score" ...

Pink river dolphins are dying from extreme heat in the Amazon

Pink river dolphins are dying from extreme heat in the ...

SIN Oct 25, 2023 0 2

Months of high temperatures and low rainfall are taking their toll on wildlife a...

Ice-spewing supervolcano may have been found on Pluto

Ice-spewing supervolcano may have been found on Pluto

SIN Oct 25, 2023 0 2

Images of Pluto from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft show a 44-kilometre-wide cra...

We may finally know which brain cells cause motion sickness

We may finally know which brain cells cause motion sick...

SIN Oct 25, 2023 0 3

Researchers have identified neurons in mice that influence whether the animals e...

Can we get limitless green hydrogen by splitting seawater?

Can we get limitless green hydrogen by splitting seawater?

SIN Oct 25, 2023 0 3

Electrolysers that split water to produce hydrogen have trouble working with sea...

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