Astrophysics

Secrets of velvet ant's venom explain what makes its sting so painful

Secrets of velvet ant's venom explain what makes its st...

SIN Jan 6, 2025 0 7

A velvet ant sting is like “hot oil spilling over your hand” – now, scientists h...

5 graphs that show how the world suddenly changed when covid-19 hit

5 graphs that show how the world suddenly changed when ...

SIN Jan 6, 2025 0 6

From carbon emissions to the share prize of videoconferencing firm Zoom, these g...

Permafrost thaw beneath Arctic lakes poses surprise pollution threat

Permafrost thaw beneath Arctic lakes poses surprise pol...

SIN Jan 6, 2025 0 9

Deep sediments under Arctic lakes could release large amounts of carbon dioxide ...

Electric fields could mine rare earth metals with less harm

Electric fields could mine rare earth metals with less ...

SIN Jan 6, 2025 0 8

Smartphones, electric vehicles and wind turbines rely on environmentally destruc...

Global treaty is failing to curb ultra-potent greenhouse gas emissions

Global treaty is failing to curb ultra-potent greenhous...

SIN Jan 3, 2025 0 8

Countries have pledged to phase out HFC-23, a powerful greenhouse gas, but atmos...

Climate change may have killed ancient 'hobbit' hominins

Climate change may have killed ancient 'hobbit' hominins

SIN Jan 3, 2025 0 12

Homo floresiensis, a metre-tall ancient hominin, lived on the South Pacific isla...

US teens are using less of every substance – except for one

US teens are using less of every substance – except for...

SIN Jan 3, 2025 0 4

Teenagers in the US roughly doubled their use of nicotine pouches in 2024, despi...

Glowing biological quantum sensor could track how cells form

Glowing biological quantum sensor could track how cells...

SIN Jan 3, 2025 0 9

A quantum sensor based on a protein from bioluminescent jellyfish can be made by...

Crystal-based cooling could make fridges more sustainable

Crystal-based cooling could make fridges more sustainable

SIN Jan 3, 2025 0 4

A new type of crystal that absorbs heat when released from extreme pressure coul...

Delicate robot hands know just how hard to squeeze

Delicate robot hands know just how hard to squeeze

SIN Jan 3, 2025 0 9

A robotic hand uses fingertip sensors and AI to determine how firmly to grip bef...

Everything we know about long covid - including how to reduce the risk

Everything we know about long covid - including how to ...

SIN Jan 2, 2025 0 7

Some people have been living with long covid for five years, but we are still ju...

AI chatbots fail to diagnose patients by talking with them

AI chatbots fail to diagnose patients by talking with them

SIN Jan 2, 2025 0 5

Although popular AI models score highly on medical exams, their accuracy drops s...

Will there be another pandemic after covid-19 and are we prepared?

Will there be another pandemic after covid-19 and are w...

SIN Jan 2, 2025 0 4

Covid-19 is responsible for the deaths of millions of people around the world, b...

People ate lots of foxes and wildcats 10,000 years ago

People ate lots of foxes and wildcats 10,000 years ago

SIN Jan 1, 2025 0 4

Foxes and cats weren’t just caught for their pelts, hint cut marks and burns on ...

Blinking may give your brain a micro break during cognitive tasks

Blinking may give your brain a micro break during cogni...

SIN Dec 31, 2024 0 12

When reading a book, we tend to blink over less familiar words, which suggests i...

Physicists bend atoms in ‘impossible’ experiment

Physicists bend atoms in ‘impossible’ experiment

SIN Dec 31, 2024 0 14

Entire atoms have been put through a classic quantum experiment for the first ti...

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