Astrophysics

Big animals have higher cancer risk – but also evolved better defences

Big animals have higher cancer risk – but also evolved ...

SIN Feb 25, 2025 0 6

A comparison of 263 species supports the idea that large animals have higher rat...

Ancient hunters may have used throwing spears 300,000 years ago

Ancient hunters may have used throwing spears 300,000 y...

SIN Feb 25, 2025 0 9

Preserved wooden spears from hundreds of thousands of years ago seem to have bee...

Deep-sea life is still recovering from mining activity 40 years ago

Deep-sea life is still recovering from mining activity ...

SIN Feb 24, 2025 0 5

The site of a deep-sea mining test in 1979 had lower levels of biodiversity when...

Intuitive Machines' lunar lander Athena set to blast off to the moon

Intuitive Machines' lunar lander Athena set to blast of...

SIN Feb 24, 2025 0 5

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is about to launch a number of missions, including a pr...

Intuitive Machine's lunar lander Athena set to blast off to the moon

Intuitive Machine's lunar lander Athena set to blast of...

SIN Feb 24, 2025 0 4

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is about to launch a number of missions, including a pr...

Huge thunderstorm on Jupiter captured in best detail ever seen

Huge thunderstorm on Jupiter captured in best detail ev...

SIN Feb 24, 2025 0 9

NASA's Juno spacecraft swooped in for a close look at a massive thunderstorm on ...

22,000-year-old tracks are earliest evidence of transport vehicles

22,000-year-old tracks are earliest evidence of transpo...

SIN Feb 24, 2025 0 6

Tracks and footprints found in New Mexico are by far the earliest evidence of pe...

Dogs seem to have a strong preference for yellow things

Dogs seem to have a strong preference for yellow things

SIN Feb 24, 2025 0 8

When offered a choice of bowls, free-ranging dogs in India tend to approach a ye...

How one farm is testing multiple carbon-capture tricks all at once

How one farm is testing multiple carbon-capture tricks ...

SIN Feb 22, 2025 0 10

Rock dust, compost and biochar can all help capture carbon dioxide and boost cro...

Hair conditioner made from wood is black and smelly, but eco-friendly

Hair conditioner made from wood is black and smelly, bu...

SIN Feb 22, 2025 0 6

Hair conditioner made using lignin, a polymer found in wood and bark, works just...

US stops sharing flu data with WHO amidst one of its worst flu seasons

US stops sharing flu data with WHO amidst one of its wo...

SIN Feb 22, 2025 0 5

The US withdrawal from the World Health Organization formally takes one year, bu...

The bold plan to bring back Tasmanian devils across mainland Australia

The bold plan to bring back Tasmanian devils across mai...

SIN Feb 21, 2025 0 5

Tasmanian devils are already being released inside predator-proof sanctuaries in...

Time can move both forwards and backwards at the quantum scale

Time can move both forwards and backwards at the quantu...

SIN Feb 21, 2025 0 9

Physicists may be using mathematical assumptions in many situations that forbid ...

AI can decode digital data stored in DNA in minutes instead of days

AI can decode digital data stored in DNA in minutes ins...

SIN Feb 21, 2025 0 4

A new AI-based method can accurately recover digital data from DNA strands nearl...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 will now almost certainly miss Earth in 2032

Asteroid 2024 YR4 will now almost certainly miss Earth ...

SIN Feb 21, 2025 0 8

New observations have dramatically reduced the chances of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitt...

Mini-brains have been fused to resemble that of a 40-day-old fetus

Mini-brains have been fused to resemble that of a 40-da...

SIN Feb 21, 2025 0 6

By fusing different human organoids, researchers have created “mini-brains” cont...

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