Astrophysics

A unique pair of galactic lenses may help solve a cosmological riddle

A unique pair of galactic lenses may help solve a cosmo...

SIN Nov 15, 2024 0 56

Two massive galaxies are bending light from the same distant quasar, creating a ...

A 200-year-old mystery about newts has finally been solved

A 200-year-old mystery about newts has finally been solved

SIN Nov 15, 2024 0 69

A genetic flaw dooms half of all crested newts to die before they hatch – now we...

How we misunderstood what the Lucy fossil reveals about ancient humans

How we misunderstood what the Lucy fossil reveals about...

SIN Nov 15, 2024 0 86

It has been 50 years since archaeologists discovered Lucy, perhaps the most famo...

There's a new twist on the famous invisible gorilla psychology study

There's a new twist on the famous invisible gorilla psy...

SIN Nov 15, 2024 0 93

A classic study found that people can fail to notice a gorilla when they are foc...

Weight-loss medications may also ease chronic pain

Weight-loss medications may also ease chronic pain

SIN Nov 15, 2024 0 39

Popular semaglutide-based drugs used for weight loss may reduce chronic and acut...

Plumes of pollution from big factories can make it snow

Plumes of pollution from big factories can make it snow

SIN Nov 15, 2024 0 52

Satellite images reveal that when conditions are right, the pollution from indus...

Twin spacecraft will launch to create an artificial solar eclipse

Twin spacecraft will launch to create an artificial sol...

SIN Nov 14, 2024 0 46

The Proba-3 mission consists of two spacecraft that will fly in close formation ...

People prefer AI-generated poems to Shakespeare and Dickinson

People prefer AI-generated poems to Shakespeare and Dic...

SIN Nov 14, 2024 0 56

Readers give higher ratings to AI-generated poetry than the works of poets such ...

Watch autonomous cars do doughnuts and drift sideways round corners

Watch autonomous cars do doughnuts and drift sideways r...

SIN Nov 14, 2024 0 102

Driverless cars can now do doughnuts and drift like stunt drivers, skidding side...

Bizarre test shows light can actually cast its own shadow

Bizarre test shows light can actually cast its own shadow

SIN Nov 14, 2024 0 109

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 44

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 40

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 45

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 53

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 51

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 65

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

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