Astrophysics

Could we put out the sun with a sun-sized orb of water?

Could we put out the sun with a sun-sized orb of water?

SIN Jul 19, 2023 0 26

What would happen if we pushed a sun-sized ball of water into our star? The Dead...

Is Alzheimer’s drug donanemab really a 'turning point' for treatment?

Is Alzheimer’s drug donanemab really a 'turning point' ...

SIN Jul 18, 2023 0 6

The experimental drug donanemab slows the progression of Alzheimer's disease com...

Amazing fossil hints mammals hunted dinosaurs three times their size

Amazing fossil hints mammals hunted dinosaurs three tim...

SIN Jul 18, 2023 0 5

A small mammal from the Cretaceous Period appears to have been preserved by volc...

India's Next Pioneering Mission to Study the Sun: Aditya L1

India's Next Pioneering Mission to Study the Sun: Adit...

SIN Jul 18, 2023 0 81

Aditya L1, India's first space-based mission to study the Sun, will orbit the La...

AIs trained on AI-generated images produce glitches and blurs

AIs trained on AI-generated images produce glitches and...

SIN Jul 18, 2023 0 11

Using AI-generated images to train AI quickly creates a loop where the results g...

Treated sewage released into rivers may hamper eel migrations

Treated sewage released into rivers may hamper eel migr...

SIN Jul 18, 2023 0 32

European eels avoid swimming through plumes of effluent from sewage treatment pl...

Ancient graphene formed 3 billion years before humans discovered it

Ancient graphene formed 3 billion years before humans d...

SIN Jul 18, 2023 0 28

Graphene, an atom-thick form of carbon, was discovered in 2004 using sticky tape...

First RSV treatment for infants and children approved in US

First RSV treatment for infants and children approved i...

SIN Jul 18, 2023 0 5

A treatment to prevent RSV in children up to two years old has been approved by ...

Benjamin Franklin put early anti-counterfeit measures in paper money

Benjamin Franklin put early anti-counterfeit measures i...

SIN Jul 18, 2023 0 4

The first scientific study of 18th-century paper money printed by Benjamin Frank...

Wiggly chair that mimics jogging provides some benefits of exercise

Wiggly chair that mimics jogging provides some benefits...

SIN Jul 18, 2023 0 5

The head movements that come from some kinds of exercise may bathe brain cells i...

Death Valley may have just had the hottest recorded midnight ever

Death Valley may have just had the hottest recorded mid...

SIN Jul 18, 2023 0 5

Between 12am and 1am on 17 July, a weather station in Death Valley, California m...

JWST may have spotted enormous stars powered by dark matter

JWST may have spotted enormous stars powered by dark ma...

SIN Jul 18, 2023 0 29

The early universe could be home to huge stars powered by dark matter annihilati...

Google AI helps doctors decide whether to trust diagnoses made by AI

Google AI helps doctors decide whether to trust diagnos...

SIN Jul 17, 2023 0 6

Knowing when to say “I don’t know” is a key issue for artificial intelligence to...

Eunice Newton Foote: The woman who discovered the greenhouse effect

Eunice Newton Foote: The woman who discovered the green...

SIN Jul 17, 2023 0 5

In research presented in 1856, Eunice Newton Foote described how tubes of gas he...

Bolivia's surging deforestation alarms environmentalists

Bolivia's surging deforestation alarms environmentalists

SIN Jul 17, 2023 0 9

Bolivia accounts for 9 per cent of all primary forest lost across the globe, and...

ADHD diagnoses in UK men grew nearly 20-fold in 18 years

ADHD diagnoses in UK men grew nearly 20-fold in 18 years

SIN Jul 17, 2023 0 6

An increased awareness of ADHD symptoms in adulthood may be prompting people to ...

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