Astrophysics

AI can identify a child's sex based on their brain activity

AI can identify a child's sex based on their brain acti...

SIN Jul 15, 2024 0 4

An AI can identify the sex of a 9 to 10-year-old child based on their brain scan...

Is a vital ocean current just decades away from catastrophic collapse?

Is a vital ocean current just decades away from catastr...

SIN Jul 15, 2024 0 2

Two studies suggest the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation could collap...

A microscopic diving board can cheat the second law of thermodynamics

A microscopic diving board can cheat the second law of ...

SIN Jul 13, 2024 0 9

Working with a tiny cantilever, physicists managed to violate the second law of ...

Your pupils change size as you breathe

Your pupils change size as you breathe

SIN Jul 12, 2024 0 1

Our pupils shrink and expand as we breathe in and out, but whether this affects ...

Denisovan DNA may help modern humans adapt to different environments

Denisovan DNA may help modern humans adapt to different...

SIN Jul 12, 2024 0 3

Highland and lowland populations in Papua New Guinea have different gene variant...

Russia is building ground-based kamikaze robots out of old hoverboards

Russia is building ground-based kamikaze robots out of ...

SIN Jul 12, 2024 0 4

Hoverboards, or self-balancing scooters, are already used by hobbyists as a basi...

Last common ancestor of all life emerged far earlier than thought

Last common ancestor of all life emerged far earlier th...

SIN Jul 12, 2024 0 4

All life on Earth can trace its origin to LUCA, the last universal common ancest...

Astronauts could drink their own urine with water-recycling spacesuit

Astronauts could drink their own urine with water-recyc...

SIN Jul 12, 2024 0 2

When astronauts go on a spacewalk, their urine is collected by what is essential...

You can turn any random sequence of events into a clock

You can turn any random sequence of events into a clock

SIN Jul 12, 2024 0 13

A set of mathematical equations can help turn apparently random observations int...

Laser helps turn an electron into a coil of mass and charge

Laser helps turn an electron into a coil of mass and ch...

SIN Jul 12, 2024 0 3

Researchers have reshaped single electrons into spiralling matter waves with dis...

Woolly mammoth DNA exceptionally preserved in freeze-dried 'jerky'

Woolly mammoth DNA exceptionally preserved in freeze-dr...

SIN Jul 11, 2024 0 3

A complete genome has been extracted from a 52,000-year-old woolly mammoth, whic...

Melting sea ice is hindering, not helping, Canadian Arctic shipping

Melting sea ice is hindering, not helping, Canadian Arc...

SIN Jul 11, 2024 0 3

Thick sea ice is flowing into the Northwest Passage, complicating predictions th...

People with Alzheimer's disease benefit from spending time with horses

People with Alzheimer's disease benefit from spending t...

SIN Jul 11, 2024 0 3

Horse therapy helps people with Alzheimer's disease socialise and improves their...

Menstrual pads that turn blood solid could reduce the risk of leaks

Menstrual pads that turn blood solid could reduce the r...

SIN Jul 11, 2024 0 3

Adding a polymer-alcohol mixture to menstrual pads causes blood to solidify, rat...

Why taking our grief out into nature can help us heal

Why taking our grief out into nature can help us heal

SIN Jul 11, 2024 0 3

When we lose a loved one, it has a profound effect on our bodies. Taking our gri...

Speed of decision-making reflects our biases

Speed of decision-making reflects our biases

SIN Jul 11, 2024 0 3

Within a group of decision-makers, the longer it takes someone to make a choice,...

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