Astrophysics

Exquisite fossils of Cretaceous shark solve mystery of ...

Six full-body fossils of Ptychodus sharks have been formally analysed for the fi...

Climate change could make it harder to detect submarines

Climate change’s effects on ocean water temperatures and salinity could shrink s...

Will Amazon's robotic revolution spark a new wave of jo...

Amazon says it will create new jobs to replace roles taken over by machines, but...

Should we tweak the atmosphere to counteract global war...

With severe climate impacts becoming more and more apparent, many scientists thi...

Ships smuggling Russian oil spotted in satellite images...

AI can analyse satellite images to reveal the movements of dark ships in a shado...

Glucose monitors may misclassify people as being at ris...

Our blood sugar levels vary a lot from day to day, so results from continuous gl...

Some scientists say insects are conscious – it doesn't ...

A group of around 40 scientists signed a declaration calling for formal acknowle...

Has the US finally figured out how to do high-speed rail?

As work begins on building the US’s first high-speed rail service – linking Los ...

Single atoms captured morphing into quantum waves in st...

In the 1920s, Erwin Schrödinger wrote an equation that predicts how particles-tu...

Deliberate fires are responsible for half of the land b...

The finding that managed fires burn a much greater area than thought means we ma...

Drug residue can be detected in fingerprints left at cr...

Forensic investigators can reliably measure drug and explosive residue using gel...

Geoengineering could save the ice sheets – but only if ...

Shading the planet by spraying aerosols into the stratosphere might stave off ic...

Nocturnal ants use polarised moonlight to find their wa...

An Australian bull ant is the first animal known to use the patterns produced by...

How cannabis gets you high and alters your perception

20 April is weed's unofficial holiday. In honour of the special day, we collecte...

Knot theory could help spacecraft navigate crowded sola...

It can be difficult to figure out how to move a spacecraft from one orbit to ano...

Songs that birds 'sing' in their dreams translated into...

By measuring how birds’ vocal muscles move while they are asleep and using a phy...

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