Astrophysics

Quantum 'supersolid' matter stirred using magnets

Quantum 'supersolid' matter stirred using magnets

SIN Apr 12, 2024 0 62

We can’t stir ordinary solids, but one research team now claims to have stirred ...

How Peter Higgs revealed the forces that hold the universe together

How Peter Higgs revealed the forces that hold the unive...

SIN Apr 11, 2024 0 36

The physicist Peter Higgs quietly revolutionised quantum field theory, then live...

Testing drugs on mini-cancers in the lab may reveal best treatment

Testing drugs on mini-cancers in the lab may reveal bes...

SIN Apr 11, 2024 0 19

A small early-stage trial of the approach, which involves testing dozens of drug...

Air pollution can make insects mate with the wrong species

Air pollution can make insects mate with the wrong species

SIN Apr 11, 2024 0 51

Ground-level ozone, a product of pollution from cars, degrades insect pheromones...

Planets that look alike might be a sign of spacefaring aliens

Planets that look alike might be a sign of spacefaring ...

SIN Apr 11, 2024 0 23

We don’t know what alien life might look like, but if other civilisations can co...

Post-surgery infections may mainly be caused by skin bacteria

Post-surgery infections may mainly be caused by skin ba...

SIN Apr 11, 2024 0 27

The skin microbiome may be a bigger cause of post-operative wound infections tha...

Some of our favourite songs make us sad, which may be why we like them

Some of our favourite songs make us sad, which may be w...

SIN Apr 11, 2024 0 21

Our favourite sad songs seem to become less enjoyable when we try to take the em...

Watch mini humanoid robots showing off their football skills

Watch mini humanoid robots showing off their football s...

SIN Apr 11, 2024 0 43

These soccer-playing robots can respond faster than ones trained in a standard w...

Fractal pattern identified at molecular scale in nature for first time

Fractal pattern identified at molecular scale in nature...

SIN Apr 10, 2024 0 28

An enzyme in a cyanobacterium can take the unusual form a triangle containing ev...

Bizarre crystal made only of electrons revealed in astonishing detail

Bizarre crystal made only of electrons revealed in asto...

SIN Apr 10, 2024 0 22

To capture the clearest and most direct images of a “Wigner crystal”, a structur...

Mathematician wins Turing award for harnessing randomness

Mathematician wins Turing award for harnessing randomness

SIN Apr 10, 2024 0 26

Avi Wigderson has won the 2023 Turing award for his work on understanding how ra...

Treating gum disease may ward off an irregular heartbeat

Treating gum disease may ward off an irregular heartbeat

SIN Apr 10, 2024 0 44

Inflamed gum tissue may allow bacteria in the mouth to enter the bloodstream, wh...

Phone batteries could last 50% longer if more 5G towers are built

Phone batteries could last 50% longer if more 5G towers...

SIN Apr 10, 2024 0 63

Adding more masts could reduce the overall energy use of phone networks by two-t...

Oral vaccine prevents recurring UTIs for nine years

Oral vaccine prevents recurring UTIs for nine years

SIN Apr 10, 2024 0 17

An oral vaccine in the form of a pineapple-flavoured spray prevented recurrent u...

Australia’s Indigenous people were making pottery over 2000 years ago

Australia’s Indigenous people were making pottery over ...

SIN Apr 10, 2024 0 26

An excavation on an island in the Coral Sea shows that Indigenous Australians we...

Peter Higgs, physicist who theorised the Higgs boson, has died aged 94

Peter Higgs, physicist who theorised the Higgs boson, h...

SIN Apr 10, 2024 0 35

Nobel prizewinning theoretical physicist Peter Higgs has died aged 94. He propos...

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