Astrophysics

Forests became less diverse when ancient people started herding pigs

Forests became less diverse when ancient people started...

SIN Sep 23, 2024 0 10

Ancient DNA extracted from layers of sediment in a Czech forest shows how a drop...

Plan to refreeze Arctic sea ice shows promise in first tests

Plan to refreeze Arctic sea ice shows promise in first ...

SIN Sep 23, 2024 0 8

Field trials indicate that pumping seawater onto the snow on top of Arctic sea i...

An AI can beat CAPTCHA tests 100 per cent of the time

An AI can beat CAPTCHA tests 100 per cent of the time

SIN Sep 23, 2024 0 8

CAPTCHA tests are supposed to distinguish humans from bots, but an AI system mas...

What to know about the new covid-19 XEC variant

What to know about the new covid-19 XEC variant

SIN Sep 21, 2024 0 7

A new covid-19 variant called XEC may spread more easily than past variants, but...

Why physicists are air-dropping buoys into the paths of hurricanes

Why physicists are air-dropping buoys into the paths of...

SIN Sep 21, 2024 0 10

A sprawling research program aims to improve hurricane forecasts by collecting d...

Astronauts may need medical evacuation from one-third of moon missions

Astronauts may need medical evacuation from one-third o...

SIN Sep 20, 2024 0 8

Medically evacuating an astronaut from space is difficult and expensive, and a n...

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 10

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 7

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 7

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 8

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 10

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 11

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 7

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 9

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 10

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 10

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

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