Astrophysics

Geoengineering could save the ice sheets – but only if we start soon

Geoengineering could save the ice sheets – but only if ...

SIN Apr 22, 2024 0 20

Shading the planet by spraying aerosols into the stratosphere might stave off ic...

Nocturnal ants use polarised moonlight to find their way home

Nocturnal ants use polarised moonlight to find their wa...

SIN Apr 22, 2024 0 23

An Australian bull ant is the first animal known to use the patterns produced by...

How cannabis gets you high and alters your perception

How cannabis gets you high and alters your perception

SIN Apr 20, 2024 0 56

20 April is weed's unofficial holiday. In honour of the special day, we collecte...

Knot theory could help spacecraft navigate crowded solar systems

Knot theory could help spacecraft navigate crowded sola...

SIN Apr 20, 2024 0 28

It can be difficult to figure out how to move a spacecraft from one orbit to ano...

Songs that birds 'sing' in their dreams translated into sound

Songs that birds 'sing' in their dreams translated into...

SIN Apr 20, 2024 0 52

By measuring how birds’ vocal muscles move while they are asleep and using a phy...

Animals may help ecosystems store 3 times more carbon than we thought

Animals may help ecosystems store 3 times more carbon t...

SIN Apr 20, 2024 0 18

Carbon storage calculations don’t always take into account the effects of animal...

Your genes may influence how much you enjoy listening to music

Your genes may influence how much you enjoy listening t...

SIN Apr 19, 2024 0 23

Identical twins seem to experience more similar levels of pleasure when listenin...

Early humans spread as far north as Siberia 400,000 years ago

Early humans spread as far north as Siberia 400,000 yea...

SIN Apr 19, 2024 0 23

A site in Siberia has evidence of human presence 417,000 years ago, raising the ...

Wind turbines based on condor wings could capture more energy

Wind turbines based on condor wings could capture more ...

SIN Apr 19, 2024 0 19

Curved wing tips inspired by the world's heaviest flying bird could enhance the ...

Autonomous e-scooters could ride themselves back to charging points

Autonomous e-scooters could ride themselves back to cha...

SIN Apr 19, 2024 0 26

Teams of staff usually return e-scooters to where they will be needed, but adapt...

Extreme heat in 2023 linked to drastic slump in growth of marine life

Extreme heat in 2023 linked to drastic slump in growth ...

SIN Apr 19, 2024 0 25

Last year’s marine heatwaves saw an unprecedented decline in the growth of phyto...

Dietary changes relieve irritable bowel syndrome better than medicine

Dietary changes relieve irritable bowel syndrome better...

SIN Apr 19, 2024 0 23

Both a special diet that excludes “FODMAP” compounds and a low-carb high-fibre d...

Cocaine seems to hijack brain pathways that prioritise food and water

Cocaine seems to hijack brain pathways that prioritise ...

SIN Apr 19, 2024 0 32

Cocaine and morphine hijacked neural responses in the brains of mice, which resu...

Fossil snake discovered in India may have been the largest ever

Fossil snake discovered in India may have been the larg...

SIN Apr 19, 2024 0 49

The vertebrae of Vasuki indicus, a snake that lived 47 million years ago, sugges...

Jupiter's moon Io has been a volcanic inferno for billions of years

Jupiter's moon Io has been a volcanic inferno for billi...

SIN Apr 18, 2024 0 28

Measurements of sulphur isotopes in Io’s atmosphere show that the moon may have ...

Particles move in beautiful patterns when they have ‘spatial memory’

Particles move in beautiful patterns when they have ‘sp...

SIN Apr 18, 2024 0 47

A mathematical model of a particle that remembers its past so that it never trav...

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