Astrophysics

Coin flips don't truly have a 50/50 chance of being heads or tails

Coin flips don't truly have a 50/50 chance of being hea...

SIN Oct 17, 2023 0 38

Researchers who flipped coins 350,757 times have confirmed that the chance of la...

Coin flips aren't truly a 50/50 chance of heads or tails

Coin flips aren't truly a 50/50 chance of heads or tails

SIN Oct 17, 2023 0 19

Researchers who flipped coins 350,757 times have confirmed that the chance of la...

Largest quake ever seen on Mars points to surprising seismic activity

Largest quake ever seen on Mars points to surprising se...

SIN Oct 17, 2023 0 35

Mars is generally thought of as being geologically dead, but a huge marsquake me...

Prize-winning photos highlight the impact of climate change on nature

Prize-winning photos highlight the impact of climate ch...

SIN Oct 17, 2023 0 21

A glacier under covers, a fish in danger of losing its home and threatened Afric...

Stunning photo of Jupiter's volcanic moon Io is our best in decades

Stunning photo of Jupiter's volcanic moon Io is our bes...

SIN Oct 17, 2023 0 54

NASA's Juno spacecraft has swooped close to Jupiter's moon Io, capturing this am...

Could nuclear weapons testing resume as global tensions rise?

Could nuclear weapons testing resume as global tensions...

SIN Oct 17, 2023 0 29

Only North Korea has detonated nuclear weapons during the 21st century, but rece...

Dung beetles' feeding habits can be used to track endangered lemurs

Dung beetles' feeding habits can be used to track endan...

SIN Oct 17, 2023 0 33

Biologists identified DNA from six species of lemurs in the guts of dung beetles...

Cannabis has a shocking environmental cost – here's how to fix it

Cannabis has a shocking environmental cost – here's how...

SIN Oct 17, 2023 0 54

Growing cannabis can consume astonishingly large amounts of electricity and wate...

It takes just 108 milliseconds for our brains to spot food

It takes just 108 milliseconds for our brains to spot food

SIN Oct 17, 2023 0 53

When you look at an object, it takes just 108 to 116 milliseconds for your brain...

Paris's bedbug problem is probably no worse than other major cities

Paris's bedbug problem is probably no worse than other ...

SIN Oct 16, 2023 0 25

An apparent resurgence of bedbugs has incited panic in France, but there is no s...

High-dose vitamin D may lower your risk of going to hospital

High-dose vitamin D may lower your risk of going to hos...

SIN Oct 16, 2023 0 44

Taking a higher-than-recommended dose of vitamin D every day may reduce the risk...

Under 18s who drive independently develop a better sense of direction

Under 18s who drive independently develop a better sens...

SIN Oct 16, 2023 0 22

People who drove by themselves before they turned 18 are better at navigating th...

A site used by ancient humans was also a latrine for giant hyenas

A site used by ancient humans was also a latrine for gi...

SIN Oct 16, 2023 0 23

Stone tools, mammal bones and fossilised faeces hint that hominins and hyenas sc...

What ancient Earth tells us about surviving the climate crisis

What ancient Earth tells us about surviving the climate...

SIN Oct 14, 2023 0 47

Climate scientist and author Michael Mann explains why it’s not too late to prev...

Student uses AI to decipher word in ancient scroll from Herculaneum

Student uses AI to decipher word in ancient scroll from...

SIN Oct 14, 2023 0 51

A computer science student has discovered the first decipherable word in unopene...

Dusting and vacuuming reduce wildfire air pollution inside homes

Dusting and vacuuming reduce wildfire air pollution ins...

SIN Oct 14, 2023 0 22

Pollutants from wildfire smoke can remain inside homes for weeks, but vacuuming,...

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