Astrophysics

Japan is sending a rover to Mars's moon Phobos in 2024

Japan is sending a rover to Mars's moon Phobos in 2024

SIN Dec 28, 2023 0 21

The Martian Moons eXploration mission is slated to launch for Phobos in Septembe...

Europe plans to build the world’s fastest supercomputer in 2024

Europe plans to build the world’s fastest supercomputer...

SIN Dec 28, 2023 0 38

Europe will get its first exascale supercomputer next year, called JUPITER, and ...

Human cells have a resonant frequency – and it’s just barely audible

Human cells have a resonant frequency – and it’s just b...

SIN Dec 28, 2023 0 26

Like a tuning fork, living human cells have frequencies at which they naturally ...

Slower arm speed may be why older people fall more easily after a slip

Slower arm speed may be why older people fall more easi...

SIN Dec 28, 2023 0 41

Younger people move their arms more quickly than their older counterparts when t...

The mathematically perfect table size for solving any jigsaw puzzle

The mathematically perfect table size for solving any j...

SIN Dec 27, 2023 0 29

When choosing the perfectly sized table to do your jigsaw puzzle on, work out th...

Will 2024 see the world finally turning away from fossil fuels?

Will 2024 see the world finally turning away from fossi...

SIN Dec 27, 2023 0 23

A global agreement at the COP28 climate summit promised to begin "transitioning ...

Hurricane damage to forests could release huge amount of stored carbon

Hurricane damage to forests could release huge amount o...

SIN Dec 27, 2023 0 22

A study modelling the impact of a major hurricane in New England suggests carbon...

Artificial pain sensors could help robots avoid damaging themselves

Artificial pain sensors could help robots avoid damagin...

SIN Dec 27, 2023 0 23

A system that detects forces and interprets which stimuli have the potential to ...

2024 will see a new weight-loss drug that trumps Wegovy and Ozempic

2024 will see a new weight-loss drug that trumps Wegovy...

SIN Dec 27, 2023 0 49

Recently approved in the US, the weight-loss drug Zepbound will reach more peopl...

We might officially enter the Anthropocene epoch in 2024

We might officially enter the Anthropocene epoch in 2024

SIN Dec 27, 2023 0 35

Scientific bodies are due to make an official decision in the coming year about ...

Mathematicians found a guaranteed way to win the lottery in 2023

Mathematicians found a guaranteed way to win the lotter...

SIN Dec 26, 2023 0 35

A pair of mathematicians studied the UK National Lottery and figured out a combi...

Probiotics helped reduce fatigue and memory loss from long covid

Probiotics helped reduce fatigue and memory loss from l...

SIN Dec 26, 2023 0 44

A study involving more than 450 people found that a mixture of prebiotics and pr...

Monkeys in Thailand took up stone tools when covid-19 stopped tourism

Monkeys in Thailand took up stone tools when covid-19 s...

SIN Dec 26, 2023 0 49

Long-tailed macaques on the island of Koh Ped appear to have learned a new way t...

Dark stars may be waiting in a mirror universe for us to discover them

Dark stars may be waiting in a mirror universe for us t...

SIN Dec 25, 2023 0 31

Physicists have proposed that a mirror universe alongside our own might explain ...

An ancient whale claimed the title of heaviest animal ever in 2023

An ancient whale claimed the title of heaviest animal e...

SIN Dec 25, 2023 0 30

Perucetus colossus lived 39 million years ago and weighed in at between 85 and 3...

Decades-old mathematical mystery about the Game of Life finally solved

Decades-old mathematical mystery about the Game of Life...

SIN Dec 25, 2023 0 22

A mathematical game governed by simple rules throws up patterns of seemingly inf...

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