Astrophysics

Heat can flow backwards in a gas so thin its particles never touch

Heat can flow backwards in a gas so thin its particles ...

SIN Nov 5, 2024 0 54

A surprising reversal of our usual understanding of the second law of thermodyna...

The COP16 biodiversity summit was a big flop for protecting nature

The COP16 biodiversity summit was a big flop for protec...

SIN Nov 5, 2024 0 50

Although the COP16 summit in Colombia ended with some important agreements, coun...

COP29: Clashes over cash are set to dominate the climate conference

COP29: Clashes over cash are set to dominate the climat...

SIN Nov 4, 2024 0 37

The focus is on finance at the UN climate summit in Baku, Azerbaijan, this month...

Viruses may help store vast amounts of carbon in soil

Viruses may help store vast amounts of carbon in soil

SIN Nov 2, 2024 0 46

Soil is full of an uncountable number of viruses, and scientists are only beginn...

We've seen particles that are massless only when moving one direction

We've seen particles that are massless only when moving...

SIN Nov 2, 2024 0 45

Inside a hunk of a material called a semimetal, scientists have uncovered signat...

Bird flu was found in a US pig – does that raise the risk for humans?

Bird flu was found in a US pig – does that raise the ri...

SIN Nov 2, 2024 0 58

A bird flu virus that has been circulating in dairy cattle for months has now be...

There may be a cosmic speed limit on how fast anything can grow

There may be a cosmic speed limit on how fast anything ...

SIN Nov 1, 2024 0 47

Alan Turing's theories about computation seem to have a startling consequence, p...

World's largest tree is also among the oldest living organisms

World's largest tree is also among the oldest living or...

SIN Nov 1, 2024 0 57

DNA analysis suggests Pando, a quaking aspen in Utah with thousands of stems con...

One in 20 new Wikipedia pages seem to be written with the help of AI

One in 20 new Wikipedia pages seem to be written with t...

SIN Nov 1, 2024 0 52

Just under 5 per cent of the Wikipedia pages in English that have been published...

Cloud-inspired material can bend light around corners

Cloud-inspired material can bend light around corners

SIN Nov 1, 2024 0 41

Light can be directed and steered around bends using a method similar to the way...

Data centres may soon burn as much extra gas as California uses daily

Data centres may soon burn as much extra gas as Califor...

SIN Nov 1, 2024 0 36

In support of their AI ambitions, tech companies are rapidly expanding US data c...

War-era sugar rationing boosted health of UK people conceived in 1940s

War-era sugar rationing boosted health of UK people con...

SIN Nov 1, 2024 0 45

People conceived during the UK's 1940s and 50s sugar rationing have a lower risk...

Lakes are losing winter ice cover at an astonishing rate

Lakes are losing winter ice cover at an astonishing rate

SIN Oct 31, 2024 0 63

Fewer lakes are freezing over each winter compared with past years, posing envir...

A bizarre skeleton from a Roman grave has bones from seven people

A bizarre skeleton from a Roman grave has bones from se...

SIN Oct 31, 2024 0 45

Radiocarbon dating and DNA analysis have revealed that a complete skeleton found...

Spies can eavesdrop on phone calls by sensing vibrations with radar

Spies can eavesdrop on phone calls by sensing vibration...

SIN Oct 31, 2024 0 38

An off-the-shelf millimetre wave sensor can pick out the tiny vibrations made by...

Chimpanzees will never randomly type the complete works of Shakespeare

Chimpanzees will never randomly type the complete works...

SIN Oct 31, 2024 0 39

The Infinite Monkey Theorem states that illiterate primates could write great li...

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