Astrophysics

'Bone collector' caterpillar wears dead insect body parts as disguise

'Bone collector' caterpillar wears dead insect body par...

SIN Apr 25, 2025 0 67

A carnivorous caterpillar species camouflages itself with dead insects so it can...

Signs of alien life on exoplanet K2-18b may just be statistical noise

Signs of alien life on exoplanet K2-18b may just be sta...

SIN Apr 25, 2025 0 52

Last week astronomers reported hints of biological activity on a distant planet,...

Oldest ant fossil ever found shows how ants took over the world

Oldest ant fossil ever found shows how ants took over t...

SIN Apr 24, 2025 0 65

A fossilised 113-million-year-old hell ant from Brazil adds to the evidence that...

Reading for pleasure has plummeted over the past 20 years

Reading for pleasure has plummeted over the past 20 years

SIN Apr 24, 2025 0 51

People in the US are reading for pleasure less and less, despite it being linked...

Colossal ancient icebergs left grooves on the bottom of the North Sea

Colossal ancient icebergs left grooves on the bottom of...

SIN Apr 24, 2025 0 69

Scientists have found scour marks on the seabed made by giant icebergs about 18,...

Daily doses of peanuts could desensitise adults with the allergy

Daily doses of peanuts could desensitise adults with th...

SIN Apr 24, 2025 0 69

Exposing children with peanut allergy to proteins from the legume is an approved...

Lyme disease treated with antibiotic that doesn't harm gut microbiome

Lyme disease treated with antibiotic that doesn't harm ...

SIN Apr 24, 2025 0 62

Mice overcame a Lyme disease infection after being given an antibiotic that is o...

Can climate science attribute economic damage to major polluters?

Can climate science attribute economic damage to major ...

SIN Apr 24, 2025 0 84

Climate researchers argue their science has advanced enough to directly link emi...

First evidence of gladiator fight with lion seen in Roman-era skeleton

First evidence of gladiator fight with lion seen in Rom...

SIN Apr 24, 2025 0 114

A man who lived in Roman-occupied Britain was bitten by a big cat, probably in a...

Dire wolf 'de-extinction' criticised by conservation group

Dire wolf 'de-extinction' criticised by conservation group

SIN Apr 23, 2025 0 59

The attempted creation of dire wolves could undermine conservation efforts by ma...

Ultra-secure quantum data sent over existing internet cables

Ultra-secure quantum data sent over existing internet c...

SIN Apr 23, 2025 0 57

Two commercial telecommunications facilities have been connected by a secure qua...

Bats that walk backwards have developed unusual navigation strategy

Bats that walk backwards have developed unusual navigat...

SIN Apr 23, 2025 0 60

Greater mouse-tailed bats crawl backwards over cave walls, and it seems they use...

Powerful blasts of X-rays could reveal a black hole waking from sleep

Powerful blasts of X-rays could reveal a black hole wak...

SIN Apr 23, 2025 0 71

Unusual signals called quasi periodic eruptions appear to come from black holes,...

We can build quantum computers using the rules of special relativity

We can build quantum computers using the rules of speci...

SIN Apr 23, 2025 0 80

Machine learning helped show how harnessing the weird effects of Einstein’s spec...

Phone game lowers social anxiety by shifting focus on to the positive

Phone game lowers social anxiety by shifting focus on t...

SIN Apr 23, 2025 0 56

The game, called StarStarter, rewards players for directing their attention away...

Giant coral colony discovered in Red Sea tourism hotspot

Giant coral colony discovered in Red Sea tourism hotspot

SIN Apr 23, 2025 0 81

A huge colony of Pavona coral near the coast of Saudi Arabia is thought to be th...

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