Astrophysics

Deforestation is partly to blame for Amazon's worst-ever drought

Deforestation is partly to blame for Amazon's worst-eve...

SIN Sep 20, 2024 0 1

Forest loss is thought to have played a part in record low rainfall across South...

Antarctica’s 'doomsday' glacier is heading for catastrophic collapse

Antarctica’s 'doomsday' glacier is heading for catastro...

SIN Sep 20, 2024 0 2

As a six-year investigation into the Thwaites glacier in Antarctica wraps up, th...

Bacteria on the space station are evolving for life in space

Bacteria on the space station are evolving for life in ...

SIN Sep 20, 2024 0 2

Genetic analysis shows that microbes growing inside the International Space Stat...

Special electrodes can split seawater to produce hydrogen fuel

Special electrodes can split seawater to produce hydrog...

SIN Sep 20, 2024 0 1

Making hydrogen from seawater can be tricky because the salt is corrosive and th...

Earth got even hotter than we thought during past 500 million years

Earth got even hotter than we thought during past 500 m...

SIN Sep 20, 2024 0 3

The average surface temperature varied more widely and was even hotter than prev...

We’ve just doubled the number of gravitational waves we can find

We’ve just doubled the number of gravitational waves we...

SIN Sep 20, 2024 0 1

Nearly imperceptible quantum flickers used to limit how precisely we could detec...

Evidence points to Wuhan market as source of covid-19 outbreak

Evidence points to Wuhan market as source of covid-19 o...

SIN Sep 20, 2024 0 1

Genetic testing on samples collected during the earliest days of the covid-19 ou...

Most effective migraine drugs revealed by review of trial data

Most effective migraine drugs revealed by review of tri...

SIN Sep 19, 2024 0 4

A meta-analysis of 137 clinical trials finds triptan drugs are among the most ef...

Giant rats trained to sniff out illegal wildlife trade

Giant rats trained to sniff out illegal wildlife trade

SIN Sep 19, 2024 0 1

African giant pouched rats proved adept at detecting four commonly trafficked pr...

The cactus family’s surprising evolutionary journey

The cactus family’s surprising evolutionary journey

SIN Sep 19, 2024 0 1

We are finally untangling the ancient history of the cactus family, revealing so...

Strange binary star system has three Earth-sized exoplanets

Strange binary star system has three Earth-sized exopla...

SIN Sep 19, 2024 0 3

Exoplanets in binary star systems usually orbit both stars, but astronomers have...

Bird flu virus that infected a person in Missouri had a rare mutation

Bird flu virus that infected a person in Missouri had a...

SIN Sep 19, 2024 0 3

Genetic analysis of a bird flu virus detected in a person in Missouri who didn’t...

Light has been seen leaving an atom cloud before it entered

Light has been seen leaving an atom cloud before it ent...

SIN Sep 19, 2024 0 1

Particles of light can spend "negative time" passing through a cloud of extremel...

Tiny nuclear-powered battery could work for decades in space or at sea

Tiny nuclear-powered battery could work for decades in ...

SIN Sep 19, 2024 0 3

A new design for a nuclear battery that generates electricity from the radioacti...

Current laws cannot protect civilians in space if something goes wrong

Current laws cannot protect civilians in space if somet...

SIN Sep 19, 2024 0 1

As the space industry evolves, we need a new set of international regulations to...

Freak waves may be more dangerous than we thought possible

Freak waves may be more dangerous than we thought possible

SIN Sep 18, 2024 0 1

Experiments in a state-of-the-art wave tank suggest we have underestimated the p...

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