Astrophysics

Countries are cheating their way to net zero by overrelying on forests

Countries are cheating their way to net zero by overrel...

SIN Nov 19, 2024 0 41

Leading researchers warn that relying on "passive" carbon sinks such as forests ...

Evidence is growing that microbes in your mouth contribute to cancer

Evidence is growing that microbes in your mouth contrib...

SIN Nov 18, 2024 0 43

The oral microbiome is increasingly being linked to head and neck cancer, but we...

Vital Atlantic Ocean current is already weakening due to melting ice

Vital Atlantic Ocean current is already weakening due t...

SIN Nov 18, 2024 0 37

A study modelling the impact of melting ice suggests scientists have underestima...

Australia wants to ban social media for under-16s, but it won't work

Australia wants to ban social media for under-16s, but ...

SIN Nov 16, 2024 0 62

Attempts to prevent Australian children from accessing social media are likely t...

AI models work together faster when they speak their own language

AI models work together faster when they speak their ow...

SIN Nov 15, 2024 0 70

Letting AI models communicate with each other in their internal mathematical lan...

Satellites spot methane leaks – but ‘super-emitters’ don’t fix them

Satellites spot methane leaks – but ‘super-emitters’ do...

SIN Nov 15, 2024 0 46

Governments and companies almost never take action when satellites alert them ab...

COP29 host Azerbaijan faces climate disaster as Caspian Sea dries up

COP29 host Azerbaijan faces climate disaster as Caspian...

SIN Nov 15, 2024 0 36

Water levels in the Caspian Sea are set to fall dramatically as the climate gets...

A unique pair of galactic lenses may help solve a cosmological riddle

A unique pair of galactic lenses may help solve a cosmo...

SIN Nov 15, 2024 0 47

Two massive galaxies are bending light from the same distant quasar, creating a ...

A 200-year-old mystery about newts has finally been solved

A 200-year-old mystery about newts has finally been solved

SIN Nov 15, 2024 0 61

A genetic flaw dooms half of all crested newts to die before they hatch – now we...

How we misunderstood what the Lucy fossil reveals about ancient humans

How we misunderstood what the Lucy fossil reveals about...

SIN Nov 15, 2024 0 70

It has been 50 years since archaeologists discovered Lucy, perhaps the most famo...

There's a new twist on the famous invisible gorilla psychology study

There's a new twist on the famous invisible gorilla psy...

SIN Nov 15, 2024 0 79

A classic study found that people can fail to notice a gorilla when they are foc...

Weight-loss medications may also ease chronic pain

Weight-loss medications may also ease chronic pain

SIN Nov 15, 2024 0 31

Popular semaglutide-based drugs used for weight loss may reduce chronic and acut...

Plumes of pollution from big factories can make it snow

Plumes of pollution from big factories can make it snow

SIN Nov 15, 2024 0 40

Satellite images reveal that when conditions are right, the pollution from indus...

Twin spacecraft will launch to create an artificial solar eclipse

Twin spacecraft will launch to create an artificial sol...

SIN Nov 14, 2024 0 38

The Proba-3 mission consists of two spacecraft that will fly in close formation ...

People prefer AI-generated poems to Shakespeare and Dickinson

People prefer AI-generated poems to Shakespeare and Dic...

SIN Nov 14, 2024 0 44

Readers give higher ratings to AI-generated poetry than the works of poets such ...

Watch autonomous cars do doughnuts and drift sideways round corners

Watch autonomous cars do doughnuts and drift sideways r...

SIN Nov 14, 2024 0 88

Driverless cars can now do doughnuts and drift like stunt drivers, skidding side...

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