Astrophysics

Bizarre test shows light can actually cast its own shadow

Bizarre test shows light can actually cast its own shadow

SIN Nov 14, 2024 0 99

With the help of a ruby cube and two laser beams, researchers made one ray of li...

Starship launch flight 6: When is Elon Musk’s SpaceX flight test?

Starship launch flight 6: When is Elon Musk’s SpaceX fl...

SIN Nov 14, 2024 0 32

Elon Musk’s SpaceX is preparing for the sixth test flight of Starship, the world...

World’s largest coral is 300 years old and was discovered by accident

World’s largest coral is 300 years old and was discover...

SIN Nov 14, 2024 0 31

The mega-coral measures 34 metres by 32 metres – making it larger than a blue wh...

Mounting evidence points to air pollution as a cause of eczema

Mounting evidence points to air pollution as a cause of...

SIN Nov 14, 2024 0 36

Air pollution has been linked to eczema before, and now a study of more than 280...

12,000-year-old stones may be oldest example of wheel-like tools

12,000-year-old stones may be oldest example of wheel-l...

SIN Nov 14, 2024 0 44

Dozens of perforated pebbles from an archaeological site in Israel may be early ...

Exquisite bird fossil provides clues to the evolution of avian brains

Exquisite bird fossil provides clues to the evolution o...

SIN Nov 13, 2024 0 42

Palaeontologists have pieced together the brain structure of a bird that lived 8...

Millions of phones create most complete map ever of the ionosphere

Millions of phones create most complete map ever of the...

SIN Nov 13, 2024 0 57

Researchers mapped Earth’s ionosphere, part of the upper atmosphere, using signa...

Sweeter tomatoes are coming soon thanks to CRISPR gene editing

Sweeter tomatoes are coming soon thanks to CRISPR gene ...

SIN Nov 13, 2024 0 33

Selection for bigger tomatoes has made the fruits less sweet, but now it has bee...

Migratory birds can use Earth's magnetic field like a GPS

Migratory birds can use Earth's magnetic field like a GPS

SIN Nov 13, 2024 0 65

Eurasian reed warblers don’t just get a sense of direction from Earth’s magnetic...

Drought, fires and fossil fuels push CO2 emissions to a record high

Drought, fires and fossil fuels push CO2 emissions to a...

SIN Nov 13, 2024 0 35

An annual accounting of CO2 emissions from burning fossil fuels and land use cha...

Google Street View helps map how 600,000 trees grow down to the limb

Google Street View helps map how 600,000 trees grow dow...

SIN Nov 13, 2024 0 75

AI and Google Street View have created 'digital twins' of living trees in North ...

Jets of liquid bounce off hot surfaces without ever touching them

Jets of liquid bounce off hot surfaces without ever tou...

SIN Nov 13, 2024 0 40

Droplets of fluid have been known to hover above a hot surface, but a new experi...

This robot can build anything you ask for out of blocks

This robot can build anything you ask for out of blocks

SIN Nov 12, 2024 0 101

An AI-assisted robot can listen to spoken commands and assemble 3D objects such ...

Next Mauna Loa eruption could be forecast months in advance

Next Mauna Loa eruption could be forecast months in adv...

SIN Nov 12, 2024 0 35

An analysis of crystals in lava from the 2022 eruption of Mauna Loa has revealed...

SpaceX targets Starship flight next week – just a month after last one

SpaceX targets Starship flight next week – just a month...

SIN Nov 12, 2024 0 43

SpaceX is preparing for the sixth test flight of Starship, the world's most powe...

Red kites and buzzards are being killed by misuse of rat poisons

Red kites and buzzards are being killed by misuse of ra...

SIN Nov 12, 2024 0 39

Campaigners are calling for stricter controls on rodenticides after finding that...

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