Astrophysics

Russia is building ground-based kamikaze robots out of old hoverboards

Russia is building ground-based kamikaze robots out of ...

SIN Jul 12, 2024 0 29

Hoverboards, or self-balancing scooters, are already used by hobbyists as a basi...

Last common ancestor of all life emerged far earlier than thought

Last common ancestor of all life emerged far earlier th...

SIN Jul 12, 2024 0 37

All life on Earth can trace its origin to LUCA, the last universal common ancest...

Astronauts could drink their own urine with water-recycling spacesuit

Astronauts could drink their own urine with water-recyc...

SIN Jul 12, 2024 0 20

When astronauts go on a spacewalk, their urine is collected by what is essential...

You can turn any random sequence of events into a clock

You can turn any random sequence of events into a clock

SIN Jul 12, 2024 0 31

A set of mathematical equations can help turn apparently random observations int...

Laser helps turn an electron into a coil of mass and charge

Laser helps turn an electron into a coil of mass and ch...

SIN Jul 12, 2024 0 24

Researchers have reshaped single electrons into spiralling matter waves with dis...

Woolly mammoth DNA exceptionally preserved in freeze-dried 'jerky'

Woolly mammoth DNA exceptionally preserved in freeze-dr...

SIN Jul 11, 2024 0 19

A complete genome has been extracted from a 52,000-year-old woolly mammoth, whic...

Melting sea ice is hindering, not helping, Canadian Arctic shipping

Melting sea ice is hindering, not helping, Canadian Arc...

SIN Jul 11, 2024 0 24

Thick sea ice is flowing into the Northwest Passage, complicating predictions th...

People with Alzheimer's disease benefit from spending time with horses

People with Alzheimer's disease benefit from spending t...

SIN Jul 11, 2024 0 19

Horse therapy helps people with Alzheimer's disease socialise and improves their...

Menstrual pads that turn blood solid could reduce the risk of leaks

Menstrual pads that turn blood solid could reduce the r...

SIN Jul 11, 2024 0 17

Adding a polymer-alcohol mixture to menstrual pads causes blood to solidify, rat...

Why taking our grief out into nature can help us heal

Why taking our grief out into nature can help us heal

SIN Jul 11, 2024 0 26

When we lose a loved one, it has a profound effect on our bodies. Taking our gri...

Speed of decision-making reflects our biases

Speed of decision-making reflects our biases

SIN Jul 11, 2024 0 22

Within a group of decision-makers, the longer it takes someone to make a choice,...

Lions' record-breaking swim across channel captured by drone camera

Lions' record-breaking swim across channel captured by ...

SIN Jul 11, 2024 0 29

Two lions, one missing a leg, made a 1.5-kilometre swim through crocodile-infest...

Governments bans on quantum computer exports have no basis in science

Governments bans on quantum computer exports have no ba...

SIN Jul 11, 2024 0 28

Several nations around the world have placed arbitrary limits on the export of q...

The plague may have wiped out most northern Europeans 5000 years ago

The plague may have wiped out most northern Europeans 5...

SIN Jul 10, 2024 0 27

DNA evidence from tombs in Sweden and Denmark suggests major plague outbreaks we...

A long-standing mystery about breastfeeding may have been solved

A long-standing mystery about breastfeeding may have be...

SIN Jul 10, 2024 0 39

Researchers have discovered a hormone in mice that prevents bone loss during lac...

Floating whale carcasses are a problem – can we predict their drift?

Floating whale carcasses are a problem – can we predict...

SIN Jul 10, 2024 0 25

A dead whale was tagged with satellite tracking equipment and monitored for more...

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