Astrophysics

Amazon is launching its first internet satellites to rival Starlink

Amazon is launching its first internet satellites to ri...

SIN Oct 5, 2023 0 4

Project Kuiper is Amazon's answer to SpaceX's Starlink satellite internet servic...

Global power sector has almost hit peak greenhouse gas emissions

Global power sector has almost hit peak greenhouse gas ...

SIN Oct 5, 2023 0 4

This year could have been the beginning of the end for emissions from generating...

Hippos are really bad at chewing their food

Hippos are really bad at chewing their food

SIN Oct 5, 2023 0 28

Common hippos can't move their mouths side to side to grind their food, while pg...

Humans lived on Spanish plateau during Earth's last cold snap

Humans lived on Spanish plateau during Earth's last col...

SIN Oct 5, 2023 0 2

Prehistoric people endured frigid and dry conditions in the highlands of central...

Being vegetarian may be partly determined by your genes

Being vegetarian may be partly determined by your genes

SIN Oct 5, 2023 0 4

Two of three genes that affect your likelihood of being vegetarianism are involv...

US emergency alert system: Everything to know about the national test

US emergency alert system: Everything to know about the...

SIN Oct 4, 2023 0 3

Today’s test of the US national alert system on mobile phones is intended to off...

Wing-flapping robot helps explain the evolution of insect flight

Wing-flapping robot helps explain the evolution of inse...

SIN Oct 4, 2023 0 5

Researchers built tiny robots that can switch between two different kinds of fli...

Why China's clean energy tech will determine our climate future

Why China's clean energy tech will determine our climat...

SIN Oct 4, 2023 0 28

China is both the world’s biggest carbon emitter and the largest producer of cle...

Starlink carbon footprint up to 30 times size of land-based internet

Starlink carbon footprint up to 30 times size of land-b...

SIN Oct 4, 2023 0 4

The satellite internet services provided by SpaceX Starlink, Eutelsat OneWeb or ...

Nobel Prize for chemistry goes to trio behind quantum dots work

Nobel Prize for chemistry goes to trio behind quantum d...

SIN Oct 4, 2023 0 3

The tiny crystals, only a few nanometres in size, have applications in computing...

Invasive beetle could threaten Ecuador’s eucalyptus plantations

Invasive beetle could threaten Ecuador’s eucalyptus pla...

SIN Oct 4, 2023 0 30

The arrival of the eucalyptus snout beetle threatens the country’s eucalyptus tr...

Hip pain linked to a dozen genetic variants

Hip pain linked to a dozen genetic variants

SIN Oct 4, 2023 0 4

In a study of more than 220,000 people, 12 genetic variants were strongly associ...

Fat Bear Week: How Alaska's brown bears nearly double in size

Fat Bear Week: How Alaska's brown bears nearly double i...

SIN Oct 4, 2023 0 32

Brown bears in Katmai National Park can eat up to 160,000 calories a day to prep...

Why we know so little about cannabis – and why scientists are worried

Why we know so little about cannabis – and why scientis...

SIN Oct 4, 2023 0 25

While research on marijuana has surged in the last 20 years, our understanding o...

Quantum AI image generator is no match for ones on ordinary computers

Quantum AI image generator is no match for ones on ordi...

SIN Oct 4, 2023 0 6

Artificial intelligence has generated recognisable images of things like shoes a...

Scientists have only just figured out how cats purr

Scientists have only just figured out how cats purr

SIN Oct 3, 2023 0 6

The low-pitched sound of purring is unusual for an animal with short vocal folds...

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