Astrophysics

Maths quirk explains why crosswords are so hard – until they aren't

Maths quirk explains why crosswords are so hard – until...

SIN Jan 9, 2025 0 58

The process of solving a crossword puzzle is mathematically similar to well-stud...

BepiColombo snaps Mercury's dark craters and volcanic plains

BepiColombo snaps Mercury's dark craters and volcanic p...

SIN Jan 9, 2025 0 48

The BepiColombo spacecraft is due to start orbiting Mercury next year, but a rec...

Parents stop finding diapers disgusting once babies are eating solids

Parents stop finding diapers disgusting once babies are...

SIN Jan 9, 2025 0 67

The extent to which parents feel disgust appears to come and go, which could be ...

Quantum computers get automatic error correction for the first time

Quantum computers get automatic error correction for th...

SIN Jan 9, 2025 0 60

A tiny quantum “refrigerator” can ensure that a quantum computer’s calculations ...

California wildfires fuelled by months of unusual extreme weather

California wildfires fuelled by months of unusual extre...

SIN Jan 9, 2025 0 60

Fast-moving wildfires are burning long after the regular fire season is over due...

SpaceX: Starship to launch fake satellites on seventh test flight

SpaceX: Starship to launch fake satellites on seventh t...

SIN Jan 9, 2025 0 64

SpaceX’s most ambitious Starship flight yet will see reused hardware, the deploy...

Sleeping pills disrupt how the brain clears waste

Sleeping pills disrupt how the brain clears waste

SIN Jan 8, 2025 0 46

A common sleep medication prevents mice from effectively clearing away waste and...

Punk and Emo fossils rock our ideas of how ancient molluscs looked

Punk and Emo fossils rock our ideas of how ancient moll...

SIN Jan 8, 2025 0 54

Two species of marine molluscs dating back about 430 million years have been nam...

Physicists discover that 'impossible' particles could actually be real

Physicists discover that 'impossible' particles could a...

SIN Jan 8, 2025 0 67

Every fundamental particle in the universe fits into one of two groups called fe...

Will genome editing transform our children's health? Some have doubts

Will genome editing transform our children's health? So...

SIN Jan 8, 2025 0 49

A team of scientists claims that the risk of common conditions like heart diseas...

New Glenn launch: Blue Origin's reusable rocket set for maiden flight

New Glenn launch: Blue Origin's reusable rocket set for...

SIN Jan 8, 2025 0 51

Jeff Bezos’s space company is about to launch New Glenn, a reusable rocket inten...

Vaccine misinformation can easily poison AI – but there's a fix

Vaccine misinformation can easily poison AI – but there...

SIN Jan 8, 2025 0 52

Adding just a little medical misinformation to an AI model’s training data incre...

How a typo spoiled my proof of Fermat’s last theorem

How a typo spoiled my proof of Fermat’s last theorem

SIN Jan 8, 2025 0 83

The tale of Fermat's last theorem took hundreds of years and included tantalisin...

What is hMPV, the virus spreading through China?

What is hMPV, the virus spreading through China?

SIN Jan 7, 2025 0 60

An uptick of human metapneumovirus (hMPV) cases in China has raised concerns ove...

Are tech firms giving up on policing their platforms?

Are tech firms giving up on policing their platforms?

SIN Jan 7, 2025 0 56

Social media companies have long struggled with moderating the behaviour of bill...

Genetically modified toxic semen could suppress troublesome insects

Genetically modified toxic semen could suppress trouble...

SIN Jan 7, 2025 0 39

Male flies have been genetically engineered to produce poisonous proteins in the...

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