Astrophysics

Turning plants blue with gene editing could make robot weeding easier

Turning plants blue with gene editing could make robot ...

SIN Apr 17, 2024 0 21

Weeding robots can sometimes struggle to tell weeds from crops, but genetically ...

A cicada double brood is coming – it's less rare than you think

A cicada double brood is coming – it's less rare than y...

SIN Apr 17, 2024 0 3

Up to 17 US states could be peppered with more than a trillion cicadas this spri...

Dusting farms with waste concrete could boost yields and lock up CO2

Dusting farms with waste concrete could boost yields an...

SIN Apr 17, 2024 0 3

Ground-up concrete can remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere in a similar wa...

Colonies of single-celled creatures could explain how embryos evolved

Colonies of single-celled creatures could explain how e...

SIN Apr 17, 2024 0 26

We know little about how embryonic development in animals evolved from single-ce...

Sleeping bumblebees can survive underwater for a week

Sleeping bumblebees can survive underwater for a week

SIN Apr 17, 2024 0 24

A serendipitous lab accident revealed that hibernating bumblebee queens can make...

Starfish have hundreds of feet but no brain – here's how they move

Starfish have hundreds of feet but no brain – here's ho...

SIN Apr 16, 2024 0 4

Starfish feet are coordinated purely through mechanical loading, enabling the an...

How to destroy a black hole

How to destroy a black hole

SIN Apr 16, 2024 0 3

A black hole would be tough to destroy, but in the season two premiere of Dead P...

Our plans to tackle climate change with carbon storage don't add up

Our plans to tackle climate change with carbon storage ...

SIN Apr 16, 2024 0 2

Modelling that shows how the world can remain below 1.5°C of warming assumes we ...

Watch a swarm of cyborg cockroaches controlled by computers

Watch a swarm of cyborg cockroaches controlled by compu...

SIN Apr 16, 2024 0 20

Remote-controlled cockroaches with computers mounted on their backs can move as ...

A surprisingly enormous black hole has been found in our galaxy

A surprisingly enormous black hole has been found in ou...

SIN Apr 16, 2024 0 1

A black hole 33 times the mass of the sun is the largest stellar black hole ever...

Geoscientists are using telecom 'dark fibres' to map Earth’s innards

Geoscientists are using telecom 'dark fibres' to map Ea...

SIN Apr 16, 2024 0 4

The networks of fibre optic cables that criss-cross the planet could be used to ...

Tiny nematode worms can grow enormous mouths and become cannibals

Tiny nematode worms can grow enormous mouths and become...

SIN Apr 16, 2024 0 2

One species of nematode worm turns into a kin-devouring nightmare if it grows up...

Parkinson's disease progression slowed by antibody infusions

Parkinson's disease progression slowed by antibody infu...

SIN Apr 15, 2024 0 2

Monthly infusions with the drug prasinezumab appeared to slow the progression of...

Deadly upwellings of cold water pose threat to migratory sharks

Deadly upwellings of cold water pose threat to migrator...

SIN Apr 15, 2024 0 3

Climate change is making extreme cold upwellings more common in certain regions ...

Are panda sex lives being sabotaged by the wrong gut microbes?

Are panda sex lives being sabotaged by the wrong gut mi...

SIN Apr 13, 2024 0 2

Conservationists think tweaking pandas’ diets might shift their gut microbiomes ...

See inside an endangered California condor egg just before it hatches

See inside an endangered California condor egg just bef...

SIN Apr 13, 2024 0 26

The hatching of the 250th California condor chick at the San Diego Zoo marks a n...

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