Astrophysics

Herpes virus could soon be approved to treat severe skin cancer

Herpes virus could soon be approved to treat severe ski...

SIN Jul 9, 2025 0 14

A cancer-killing virus could soon be approved for use after shrinking tumours in...

Geoengineering could avoid climate tipping points, but not if we delay

Geoengineering could avoid climate tipping points, but ...

SIN Jul 9, 2025 0 32

Putting aerosols in the stratosphere to reflect sunlight could prevent the shutd...

Forests' vanishing snow is also bad news for carbon storage

Forests' vanishing snow is also bad news for carbon sto...

SIN Jul 8, 2025 0 41

The loss of snow cover in temperate forests is set to slow their growth and redu...

Mathematicians are chasing a number that may reveal the edge of maths

Mathematicians are chasing a number that may reveal the...

SIN Jul 8, 2025 0 24

Some numbers are so unimaginably large that they defy the bounds of modern mathe...

Did something just hit Saturn? Astronomers are racing to find out

Did something just hit Saturn? Astronomers are racing t...

SIN Jul 7, 2025 0 26

Around seven asteroids or comets are thought to hit Saturn ever year, but we hav...

Vapour-sniffing drug detector tested at the US-Mexico border

Vapour-sniffing drug detector tested at the US-Mexico b...

SIN Jul 7, 2025 0 20

Drugs and explosive chemicals are difficult to detect, but a device more sensiti...

US government tests new vapour-sniffing drug detector at the border

US government tests new vapour-sniffing drug detector a...

SIN Jul 7, 2025 0 23

Drugs and explosive chemicals are difficult to detect, but a device more sensiti...

'Hybrid' skull may have been a child of Neanderthal and Homo sapiens

'Hybrid' skull may have been a child of Neanderthal and...

SIN Jul 7, 2025 0 13

The skull of a 5-year-old girl who lived 140,000 years ago has similarities with...

AI could be about to completely change the way we do mathematics

AI could be about to completely change the way we do ma...

SIN Jul 7, 2025 0 29

Computers can help ensure that mathematical proofs are correct, but translating ...

Fig trees may benefit climate by turning carbon dioxide into stone

Fig trees may benefit climate by turning carbon dioxide...

SIN Jul 6, 2025 0 16

Some carbon dioxide absorbed by fig trees gets turned into calcium carbonate wit...

Ancient mass extinction shows how Earth turned into a super-greenhouse

Ancient mass extinction shows how Earth turned into a s...

SIN Jul 5, 2025 0 45

A study of fossils from the Permian-Triassic extinction event 252 million years ...

Cyberattacks could exploit home solar panels to disrupt power grids

Cyberattacks could exploit home solar panels to disrupt...

SIN Jul 4, 2025 0 17

The growth of domestic solar installations opens the possibility of hackers targ...

We finally understand why quasicrystals can exist

We finally understand why quasicrystals can exist

SIN Jul 4, 2025 0 26

Not quite crystals and not quite a glass, quasicrystals are an oddity whose prop...

Carbon-offset schemes aren't prepared for forests to burn

Carbon-offset schemes aren't prepared for forests to burn

SIN Jul 4, 2025 0 29

Forest-based carbon-offset projects need a buffer to guarantee their climate ben...

Meteorite causes rethink of how and when our solar system formed

Meteorite causes rethink of how and when our solar syst...

SIN Jul 4, 2025 0 19

Rocky bodies called protoplanets were thought to have formed slightly earlier in...

Quantum-enhanced supercomputers are starting to do chemistry

Quantum-enhanced supercomputers are starting to do chem...

SIN Jul 4, 2025 0 26

Working in tandem, a quantum computer and a supercomputer modelled the behaviour...

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