Astrophysics

Squeezing loofah sponges creates enough electricity to power LEDs

Squeezing loofah sponges creates enough electricity to ...

SIN Sep 26, 2023 0 2

Sponges derived from luffa plants could act as tiny power sources for small devi...

Nearly all mammals will go extinct in 250 million years as Earth warms

Nearly all mammals will go extinct in 250 million years...

SIN Sep 25, 2023 0 3

If humans still exist millions of years from now, they will face inhospitably wa...

Covid-19 drug may be creating new variants with distinctive mutations

Covid-19 drug may be creating new variants with distinc...

SIN Sep 25, 2023 0 6

Covid-19 viruses with distinctive patterns of mutation are appearing in countrie...

Potential new medicine can target proteins on cancer cell surfaces

Potential new medicine can target proteins on cancer ce...

SIN Sep 25, 2023 0 3

A way of destroying specific proteins on the surface of cells could lead to new ...

Hopes fade for renewed contact with India's Chandrayaan-3 moon lander

Hopes fade for renewed contact with India's Chandrayaan...

SIN Sep 25, 2023 0 2

Mission engineers had hoped that the Vikram lander and Pragyan rover could survi...

How geologic hydrogen went from fringe science to potential green fuel

How geologic hydrogen went from fringe science to poten...

SIN Sep 25, 2023 0 4

Just a year ago, few people took seriously the idea that we could extract hydrog...

Samples from asteroid Bennu brought back to Earth by NASA's OSIRIS-REx

Samples from asteroid Bennu brought back to Earth by NA...

SIN Sep 25, 2023 0 5

Precious samples from the asteroid Bennu have returned to Earth, where researche...

Twisted lasers could let us send messages with gravitational waves

Twisted lasers could let us send messages with gravitat...

SIN Sep 25, 2023 0 3

Ripples in space-time called gravitational waves are normally associated with ma...

Surgeons perform the second ever pig-to-human heart transplant

Surgeons perform the second ever pig-to-human heart tra...

SIN Sep 23, 2023 0 36

The heart of a genetically modified pig has been transplanted into a man with he...

Blood donors may pass on small risk of brain bleed to recipients

Blood donors may pass on small risk of brain bleed to r...

SIN Sep 23, 2023 0 6

Receiving a blood transfusion from someone who later develops a brain haemorrhag...

Massive power line will send Canadian hydropower to New York

Massive power line will send Canadian hydropower to New...

SIN Sep 23, 2023 0 2

New York City has begun construction on a project to hook up its grid to hydroel...

No sign of Chandrayaan-3 as India searches for sleeping moon mission

No sign of Chandrayaan-3 as India searches for sleeping...

SIN Sep 22, 2023 0 4

The Vikram lander and Pragyan rover, which together make up India's Chandrayaan-...

Jellyfish can learn from experience even though they lack a brain

Jellyfish can learn from experience even though they la...

SIN Sep 22, 2023 0 24

As one of the biologically simplest kinds of animal, we might have thought jelly...

Man who sees upside down provides clues on how we process faces

Man who sees upside down provides clues on how we proce...

SIN Sep 22, 2023 0 27

A man with a condition that has rotated his head backwards can identify upright ...

Armour-plated mollusc fluoresces brilliant red-pink

Armour-plated mollusc fluoresces brilliant red-pink

SIN Sep 22, 2023 0 14

Chitons are unusual molluscs with a shell made up of plates, and they fluoresce ...

Mice grown with rat brains to help study cross-species organ donation

Mice grown with rat brains to help study cross-species ...

SIN Sep 22, 2023 0 28

Creating mice with partial rat brains helps scientists better understand whether...

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