Astrophysics

Bird flu virus that infected a person in Missouri had a rare mutation

Bird flu virus that infected a person in Missouri had a...

SIN Sep 19, 2024 0 3

Genetic analysis of a bird flu virus detected in a person in Missouri who didn’t...

Light has been seen leaving an atom cloud before it entered

Light has been seen leaving an atom cloud before it ent...

SIN Sep 19, 2024 0 3

Particles of light can spend "negative time" passing through a cloud of extremel...

Tiny nuclear-powered battery could work for decades in space or at sea

Tiny nuclear-powered battery could work for decades in ...

SIN Sep 19, 2024 0 4

A new design for a nuclear battery that generates electricity from the radioacti...

Current laws cannot protect civilians in space if something goes wrong

Current laws cannot protect civilians in space if somet...

SIN Sep 19, 2024 0 2

As the space industry evolves, we need a new set of international regulations to...

Freak waves may be more dangerous than we thought possible

Freak waves may be more dangerous than we thought possible

SIN Sep 18, 2024 0 2

Experiments in a state-of-the-art wave tank suggest we have underestimated the p...

Black hole’s jets are so huge that they may shake up cosmology

Black hole’s jets are so huge that they may shake up co...

SIN Sep 18, 2024 0 8

Spanning 23 million light years, or 220 Milky Way galaxies, a set of giant, newl...

‘Shazam for whales’ uses AI to track sounds heard in Mariana Trench

‘Shazam for whales’ uses AI to track sounds heard in Ma...

SIN Sep 18, 2024 0 3

An artificial intelligence model that can identify the calls of eight whale spec...

Venus could be rocked by thousands of quakes every year

Venus could be rocked by thousands of quakes every year

SIN Sep 18, 2024 0 3

The second-closest planet to the sun is more geologically active than we thought...

Air jacket helps 'scuba-diving' lizards stay underwater for longer

Air jacket helps 'scuba-diving' lizards stay underwater...

SIN Sep 18, 2024 0 3

Some lizards dive into streams to escape predators, and a specialised bubble-bre...

Quantum computers teleport and store energy harvested from empty space

Quantum computers teleport and store energy harvested f...

SIN Sep 18, 2024 0 4

A quantum computing protocol makes it possible to extract energy from seemingly ...

People hugely underestimate the carbon footprints of the 1 per cent

People hugely underestimate the carbon footprints of th...

SIN Sep 18, 2024 0 3

In a survey of thousands of people, respondents underestimated the massive diffe...

Our reality seems to be compatible with a quantum multiverse

Our reality seems to be compatible with a quantum multi...

SIN Sep 18, 2024 0 1

Even though the strange behaviour we observe in the quantum realm isn’t part of ...

Some flowers may have evolved long stems to be better ‘seen’ by bats

Some flowers may have evolved long stems to be better ‘...

SIN Sep 17, 2024 0 4

Echolocating bats can more easily find and pollinate long-stemmed flowers that s...

Hopes for new physics dashed by ordinary-looking W bosons at CERN

Hopes for new physics dashed by ordinary-looking W boso...

SIN Sep 17, 2024 0 3

In 2022, physicists were excited by hints that something was wrong with our unde...

Earth may once have had a ring like Saturn

Earth may once have had a ring like Saturn

SIN Sep 17, 2024 0 4

A ring of asteroid debris could have orbited Earth for tens of millions of years...

Antibiotic resistance forecast to kill 39 million people by 2050

Antibiotic resistance forecast to kill 39 million peopl...

SIN Sep 17, 2024 0 3

The number of people worldwide directly killed by antibiotic resistance will ris...

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