Astrophysics

Number of known species of giant waterlilies almost doubles

Number of known species of giant waterlilies almost dou...

SIN Oct 9, 2026 0 29

A new species of giant waterlily identified with the help of social media and sa...

The big unanswered question about Russia’s ‘plague’ death

The big unanswered question about Russia’s ‘plague’ death

SIN Oct 9, 2026 0 23

Russia says it is winding down precautionary measures taken after a lab worker a...

OpenAI mistranslated mathematics into code for its Navier-Stokes proof

OpenAI mistranslated mathematics into code for its Navi...

SIN Oct 8, 2026 0 30

When OpenAI announced its surprise solution to the Navier-Stokes problem, it pro...

Record El Niño threatens Great Barrier Reef with ecological shift

Record El Niño threatens Great Barrier Reef with ecolog...

SIN Oct 8, 2026 0 25

Researchers are worried about the impact the strongest-known El Niño will have o...

The world may never go back to how it was after this monster El Niño

The world may never go back to how it was after this mo...

SIN Oct 8, 2026 0 22

This El Niño is forecast to end around June next year after smashing all records...

The most interesting mathematical discoveries in OpenAI’s 722 new papers

The most interesting mathematical discoveries in OpenAI...

SIN Oct 8, 2026 0 22

OpenAI has released hundreds of papers claiming to make progress on the biggest ...

Why gatekeeping is needed in the age of AI

Why gatekeeping is needed in the age of AI

SIN Oct 8, 2026 0 21

Large language models have unleashed a torrent of text – dealing with it won't b...

194-year-old tortoise has exceptional DNA repair systems that fight off ageing

194-year-old tortoise has exceptional DNA repair system...

SIN Oct 8, 2026 0 32

The genome of Jonathan the giant tortoise, a 194-year-old resident of St Helena ...

Neanderthal Europe was as much a wooden age as a stone age

Neanderthal Europe was as much a wooden age as a stone age

SIN Oct 8, 2026 0 30

When Neanderthals dominated Europe, it was likely that wood was at least as impo...

Colonisation of Australia led to big increase in wildfire danger

Colonisation of Australia led to big increase in wildfi...

SIN Oct 7, 2026 0 25

An analysis of lake sediments in south-eastern Australia has revealed that the e...

Stunning early mammal fossil sheds light on the evolution of suckling

Stunning early mammal fossil sheds light on the evoluti...

SIN Oct 7, 2026 0 38

A predecessor of modern mammals that lived in the Jurassic has been found in Chi...

OpenAI announces 722 mathematical discoveries in one go

OpenAI announces 722 mathematical discoveries in one go

SIN Oct 7, 2026 0 21

AI has been growing ever more capable in mathematics and OpenAI has now released...

Nobel prize in chemistry awarded for work on mirror molecules

Nobel prize in chemistry awarded for work on mirror mol...

SIN Oct 7, 2026 0 23

Henri Kagan and Kenso Soai have been honoured for their work on making molecules...

Shoes may change the structure of our ankle bones

Shoes may change the structure of our ankle bones

SIN Oct 7, 2026 0 21

Wearing shoes seems to affect the density and volume of a spongy network within ...

The most ambitious ideas to save the world from El Niño

The most ambitious ideas to save the world from El Niño

SIN Oct 6, 2026 0 22

A monster El Niño is brewing in the Pacific Ocean – but there may be ways we can...

Nobel prize in physics awarded for discovery of high-energy neutrinos

Nobel prize in physics awarded for discovery of high-en...

SIN Oct 6, 2026 0 29

The 2026 Nobel prize in physics has been won by Francis Halzen for his work on n...

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