Astrophysics

Does oil-rich Saudi Arabia really want to mend its ways and go green?

Does oil-rich Saudi Arabia really want to mend its ways...

SIN Jul 13, 2023 0 33

The desert kingdom’s much-hyped, zero-carbon linear city has been dismissed as g...

What is xAI, Elon Musk’s new AI company, and will it succeed?

What is xAI, Elon Musk’s new AI company, and will it su...

SIN Jul 13, 2023 0 4

Elon Musk has announced a new venture called xAI that plans to “understand the t...

Social media brings benefits as well as risks to young people

Social media brings benefits as well as risks to young ...

SIN Jul 13, 2023 0 3

A recent US surgeon general’s report on social media use and youth mental health...

Using bigger AI training data sets may produce more racist results

Using bigger AI training data sets may produce more rac...

SIN Jul 13, 2023 0 3

Contrary to Silicon Valley wisdom, training AIs on larger data sets could worsen...

Stars found hidden in huge cloud wrapped around the Milky Way

Stars found hidden in huge cloud wrapped around the Mil...

SIN Jul 13, 2023 0 22

The Magellanic stream is a cloud of dust and gas that wraps around our galaxy. I...

Shifting where data is processed for AI can reduce environmental harm

Shifting where data is processed for AI can reduce envi...

SIN Jul 13, 2023 0 20

A scheduling algorithm can help redistribute AI workloads among data centres to ...

Malaria vaccine shows promise against relapsing form of the disease

Malaria vaccine shows promise against relapsing form of...

SIN Jul 13, 2023 0 2

A vaccine induced an immune response against the malaria parasite Plasmodium viv...

'Superbubbles' of gas around quasars may form thanks to powerful winds

'Superbubbles' of gas around quasars may form thanks to...

SIN Jul 13, 2023 0 3

Colossal bubbles of hot gas observed around three distant, supermassive black ho...

Bone disease in sabre-toothed tigers may be a sign of inbreeding

Bone disease in sabre-toothed tigers may be a sign of i...

SIN Jul 13, 2023 0 6

An analysis of bones from the La Brea tar pits in California reveals that sabre-...

The oceans are getting greener because of climate change

The oceans are getting greener because of climate change

SIN Jul 13, 2023 0 3

A trend towards greener seas revealed by satellite images is probably down to ch...

Quantum twist on common computer algorithm promises useful speed boost

Quantum twist on common computer algorithm promises use...

SIN Jul 12, 2023 0 5

Quantum computers have been shown to solve some problems faster than ordinary co...

Coral reefs are contaminated with plastic from fishing

Coral reefs are contaminated with plastic from fishing

SIN Jul 12, 2023 0 2

Plastic was found at nearly all of the 84 coral reefs studied across the Pacific...

Record-breaking number of qubits entangled in a quantum computer

Record-breaking number of qubits entangled in a quantum...

SIN Jul 12, 2023 0 6

A group of 51 superconducting qubits have been entangled inside a quantum comput...

Microplastics found in the soil on farms used to grow crops

Microplastics found in the soil on farms used to grow c...

SIN Jul 12, 2023 0 3

Plastic is commonly used on farms in irrigation pipes or sheets to cover crops, ...

Birds from two different species raise chicks together in one nest

Birds from two different species raise chicks together ...

SIN Jul 12, 2023 0 21

A pair of common redstarts and a pair of black redstarts were seen brooding in t...

JWST celebrates first year of science with awesome star-forming image

JWST celebrates first year of science with awesome star...

SIN Jul 12, 2023 0 6

After a year of producing incredible imagery, the James Webb Space Telescope tea...

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