Astrophysics

How does consciousness arise? A 25-year-old bet has now been decided

How does consciousness arise? A 25-year-old bet has now...

SIN Jun 27, 2023 0 3

Twenty-five years ago, a neuroscientist and a philosopher bet a case of fine win...

Eating at night could boost your muscles and help you run for longer

Eating at night could boost your muscles and help you r...

SIN Jun 26, 2023 0 30

A study in mice has shown that eating during what would normally be a resting pe...

How new fetal therapies are treating genetic conditions in the womb

How new fetal therapies are treating genetic conditions...

SIN Jun 26, 2023 0 22

A genetic condition that sees children develop almost no teeth or sweat glands c...

Euclid space telescope is about to launch to probe the dark cosmos

Euclid space telescope is about to launch to probe the ...

SIN Jun 26, 2023 0 8

The European Space Agency’s Euclid space telescope is scheduled to launch on 1 J...

Zombie worms devour shark teeth that fall to the ocean floor

Zombie worms devour shark teeth that fall to the ocean ...

SIN Jun 25, 2023 0 5

Deep-sea Osedax worms, known to consume whale bones and the remains of bony fish...

Eyeball reflections can reveal a 3D model of what you are looking at

Eyeball reflections can reveal a 3D model of what you a...

SIN Jun 25, 2023 0 30

A computer vision system uses photographs of someone’s face from different angle...

There's a gravity 'hole' in the Indian Ocean and now we may know why

There's a gravity 'hole' in the Indian Ocean and now we...

SIN Jun 24, 2023 0 27

Earth appears to have less mass beneath a certain part of the Indian Ocean compa...

Distant comet cracks into two halves after being heated by the sun

Distant comet cracks into two halves after being heated...

SIN Jun 24, 2023 0 26

A fragmentation event has given astronomers a new way to study a comet from the ...

Tentacle robot can bend through pipes and unscrew bolts

Tentacle robot can bend through pipes and unscrew bolts

SIN Jun 24, 2023 0 2

A soft, tubular robot can bend, twist, expand and contract when exposed to diffe...

Heart chambers 3D printed from live human cells can beat for months

Heart chambers 3D printed from live human cells can bea...

SIN Jun 24, 2023 0 3

A new technique enables 3D printing of miniature heart chambers called ventricle...

River Thames was pumped full of oxygen in 2022 to prevent fish deaths

River Thames was pumped full of oxygen in 2022 to preve...

SIN Jun 23, 2023 0 3

Falling oxygen levels caused by sewage and hot weather saw a specialised boat de...

Endangered butterflies are being sold for high prices on eBay

Endangered butterflies are being sold for high prices o...

SIN Jun 23, 2023 0 3

More than 50,000 dead butterflies were traded on eBay in a one-year period, incl...

Odd gamma ray burst may be from a smash-up between two dead stars

Odd gamma ray burst may be from a smash-up between two ...

SIN Jun 23, 2023 0 29

Astronomers have found a blast of gamma rays from space that seems to have been ...

Clever design makes sticky tape that's strong but easily removed

Clever design makes sticky tape that's strong but easil...

SIN Jun 23, 2023 0 27

A ‘shocklingly simple’ design based on kirigami, the Japanese art of paper cutti...

The massive problem of trying to fully explain what mass actually is

The massive problem of trying to fully explain what mas...

SIN Jun 22, 2023 0 22

I can take it as a given that people have an intuition for the meaning of mass, ...

Which quantum computer is the most powerful ever? It's complicated

Which quantum computer is the most powerful ever? It's ...

SIN Jun 22, 2023 0 27

IonQ has become the latest company to claim its quantum computer is more powerfu...

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