Astrophysics

On the hunt for thousands of salmon that escaped Icelandic fish farm

On the hunt for thousands of salmon that escaped Icelan...

SIN Oct 23, 2023 0 4

Some 3500 salmon have escaped from a fish farm pen in Iceland and now the hunt i...

Legalising marijuana hasn't been the quick fix the US hoped for

Legalising marijuana hasn't been the quick fix the US h...

SIN Oct 21, 2023 0 3

More than 20 US states have now legalised recreational cannabis, but the devasta...

Schools cut covid-19 sick days by 20 per cent using HEPA air filters

Schools cut covid-19 sick days by 20 per cent using HEP...

SIN Oct 21, 2023 0 3

The eagerly awaited finding comes from the first randomised trial of putting HEP...

Mysterious rotation trick makes magnets float in the air

Mysterious rotation trick makes magnets float in the air

SIN Oct 21, 2023 0 30

A few years ago, researchers discovered that a rapidly rotating magnet will caus...

Humans caught more diseases after we domesticated animals

Humans caught more diseases after we domesticated animals

SIN Oct 20, 2023 0 27

Analysis of DNA from human remains up to 37,000 years old shows that more infect...

UK’s fastest supercomputer will be built in a car park in Bristol

UK’s fastest supercomputer will be built in a car park ...

SIN Oct 20, 2023 0 2

Isambard-AI will contain about 5000 graphics processing units, making it 10 time...

Sperm caught breaking Newton's third law of motion

Sperm caught breaking Newton's third law of motion

SIN Oct 20, 2023 0 4

Some biological cells swim freely in a way that apparently breaks one of Newton’...

We forget details when our brain picks the wrong thing to remember

We forget details when our brain picks the wrong thing ...

SIN Oct 20, 2023 0 4

Scientists have identified the brain mechanisms behind why we often misremember ...

Why birds' eyes can be blue, green, pink or orange

Why birds' eyes can be blue, green, pink or orange

SIN Oct 20, 2023 0 3

Among birds, eyes come in all sorts of colours – and it seems that this helps th...

Do animals know that sex leads to babies?

Do animals know that sex leads to babies?

SIN Oct 20, 2023 0 21

The time delay between sex and offspring makes identifying the cause and effect ...

A blast of radio waves hit Earth after travelling for 8 billion years

A blast of radio waves hit Earth after travelling for 8...

SIN Oct 20, 2023 0 6

A huge burst of energy that has been travelling for more than half the age of th...

IBM's brain-inspired chip could be the fastest at running AI yet

IBM's brain-inspired chip could be the fastest at runni...

SIN Oct 20, 2023 0 6

An IBM chip that mimics the brain can run AI-powered image recognition algorithm...

Emergence of huge cicada generation in 2021 led to a caterpillar boom

Emergence of huge cicada generation in 2021 led to a ca...

SIN Oct 20, 2023 0 3

The emergence of 'Brood X' periodical cicadas in the US in 2021 gave birds a new...

Warm seas blamed for the disappearance of 10 billion snow crabs

Warm seas blamed for the disappearance of 10 billion sn...

SIN Oct 20, 2023 0 19

The population of snow crabs in the Bering Sea has crashed since 2018, probably ...

Hurricanes are growing stronger much faster than they did in the 1970s

Hurricanes are growing stronger much faster than they d...

SIN Oct 19, 2023 0 1

An analysis of all tropical storms in the Atlantic between 1971 and 2020 has con...

Climate change will prompt expansion of farming in northern wilderness

Climate change will prompt expansion of farming in nort...

SIN Oct 19, 2023 0 3

As the world warms, vast areas of wilderness in Russia, Canada and Alaska will b...

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