Astrophysics

Satellite launched to track down leaks of potent greenhouse gas

Satellite launched to track down leaks of potent greenh...

SIN Mar 5, 2024 0 23

MethaneSAT will orbit the planet 15 times a day to capture unprecedented amounts...

Organoids made from uterus fluid may help treat fetuses before birth

Organoids made from uterus fluid may help treat fetuses...

SIN Mar 4, 2024 0 29

Fetal cells retrieved from fluid in the uterus can now be turned into balls of c...

Europa may have less oxygen to fuel life in its seas than we thought

Europa may have less oxygen to fuel life in its seas th...

SIN Mar 4, 2024 0 27

The ocean on Jupiter’s icy moon Europa is one of the best places we have found t...

Google launches $5m prize to find actual uses for quantum computers

Google launches $5m prize to find actual uses for quant...

SIN Mar 4, 2024 0 45

Existing quantum computers can solve some problems faster than any ordinary comp...

Smart glasses use sonar to work out where you're looking

Smart glasses use sonar to work out where you're looking

SIN Mar 4, 2024 0 67

Gaze-tracking devices normally rely on cameras, but a new system uses reflected ...

These 7 mathematical facts will blow your mind

These 7 mathematical facts will blow your mind

SIN Mar 4, 2024 0 24

What better way is there to celebrate pi day than with a slice of mathematics? H...

AI could help replicate smells in danger of being lost to history

AI could help replicate smells in danger of being lost ...

SIN Mar 2, 2024 0 38

Artificial intelligence has been used to replicate fragrances more quickly than ...

Persistent pain after a UTI may be due to an overgrowth of nerve cells

Persistent pain after a UTI may be due to an overgrowth...

SIN Mar 2, 2024 0 21

Many people experience ongoing pain even after a urinary tract infection has sup...

Fear of predators may have helped us conceptualise the idea of zero

Fear of predators may have helped us conceptualise the ...

SIN Mar 1, 2024 0 44

A fear of predators may have helped many animals recognise when they weren't the...

Why space dust is key to everything from star birth to life on Earth

Why space dust is key to everything from star birth to ...

SIN Mar 1, 2024 0 47

Cosmic dust grains may be small, but they are mighty – it turns out dust is cruc...

Elon Musk asks court to decide if GPT-4 has human-level intelligence

Elon Musk asks court to decide if GPT-4 has human-level...

SIN Mar 1, 2024 0 25

As part of a lawsuit against OpenAI, billionaire Elon Musk has asked a court to ...

UK spurns European invitation to join ITER nuclear fusion project

UK spurns European invitation to join ITER nuclear fusi...

SIN Mar 1, 2024 0 35

Since Brexit, the UK no longer has access to ITER, the world's largest nuclear f...

Does 23andMe's decline show genetic-based medicine has been overhyped?

Does 23andMe's decline show genetic-based medicine has ...

SIN Mar 1, 2024 0 27

23andMe's DNA test was once named "invention of the year", but now the company i...

Sinking plankton poo could help store more carbon in the ocean

Sinking plankton poo could help store more carbon in th...

SIN Mar 1, 2024 0 31

When the faecal matter produced by plankton sinks, it carries carbon from shallo...

1 in 8 people worldwide has obesity

1 in 8 people worldwide has obesity

SIN Mar 1, 2024 0 21

Between 1990 and 2022, obesity rates more than doubled among adults and quadrupl...

El Niño will cause record-breaking heat across the world this year

El Niño will cause record-breaking heat across the worl...

SIN Feb 29, 2024 0 23

A climate model has forecast where the most extreme heat will occur during the c...

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