Astrophysics

Useful quantum computers are edging closer with recent milestones

Useful quantum computers are edging closer with recent ...

SIN Oct 1, 2024 0 1

Google, Microsoft and others have taken big steps towards error-free devices, hi...

Ancient plankton suggests extreme El Niños will become twice as common

Ancient plankton suggests extreme El Niños will become ...

SIN Oct 1, 2024 0 3

Plankton that lived during the last glacial maximum have helped confirm the accu...

Here's how coral reefs might survive hotter, more acidic oceans

Here's how coral reefs might survive hotter, more acidi...

SIN Sep 30, 2024 0 8

Coral reefs around the world are at risk of collapse due to rising temperatures ...

How 'river piracy' made Mount Everest grow even taller

How 'river piracy' made Mount Everest grow even taller

SIN Sep 30, 2024 0 3

Rapid erosion caused by a geological act of “piracy” tens of thousands of years ...

Radioactive ion beam could target tumours more precisely

Radioactive ion beam could target tumours more precisely

SIN Sep 30, 2024 0 2

A beam of radioactive carbon ions has been used to destroy cancer cells in mice,...

CBD shows promise as pesticide for mosquitoes

CBD shows promise as pesticide for mosquitoes

SIN Sep 28, 2024 0 3

Mosquito larvae die after consuming hemp leaves because they react strongly to t...

Map of the immune system changing with age may help optimise vaccines

Map of the immune system changing with age may help opt...

SIN Sep 28, 2024 0 4

Our immune cells change a lot as the decades progress, which could explain why w...

Forcing people to change their passwords is officially a bad idea

Forcing people to change their passwords is officially ...

SIN Sep 27, 2024 0 3

A US standards agency has issued new guidance saying organisations shouldn’t req...

Bacteria can work as a team to spot prime numbers and vowels

Bacteria can work as a team to spot prime numbers and v...

SIN Sep 27, 2024 0 3

Bacteria that have been genetically engineered to work like computers can solve ...

Jet contrails may cool the planet by day and warm it by night

Jet contrails may cool the planet by day and warm it by...

SIN Sep 27, 2024 0 4

An AI-assisted analysis of satellite images suggests the vapour trails produced ...

What voice assistants like Alexa know about you – and how they use it

What voice assistants like Alexa know about you – and h...

SIN Sep 27, 2024 0 4

Voice assistants can build profiles of their users’ habits and preferences, but ...

Search for alien transmissions in promising star system draws a blank

Search for alien transmissions in promising star system...

SIN Sep 27, 2024 0 2

Astronomers listened for radio signals emanating from planets in the TRAPPIST-1 ...

These fish have evolved legs that can find and taste buried food

These fish have evolved legs that can find and taste bu...

SIN Sep 26, 2024 0 3

Northern sea robins are formidable marine hunters, and they owe their success to...

Camellia oil could be the greenest cooking oil – and the healthiest

Camellia oil could be the greenest cooking oil – and th...

SIN Sep 26, 2024 0 3

Replacing some existing vegetable oil crops with camellia oil could boost produc...

AI tweaks to photos and videos can alter our memories

AI tweaks to photos and videos can alter our memories

SIN Sep 26, 2024 0 4

It has become trivially easy to use artificial intelligence to edit images or ge...

Planet in the 'forbidden zone' of dead star could reveal Earth's fate

Planet in the 'forbidden zone' of dead star could revea...

SIN Sep 26, 2024 0 3

A distant planet should have been consumed when its star expanded to become a re...

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