Astrophysics

One in 20 new Wikipedia pages seem to be written with the help of AI

One in 20 new Wikipedia pages seem to be written with t...

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Just under 5 per cent of the Wikipedia pages in English that have been published...

Cloud-inspired material can bend light around corners

Cloud-inspired material can bend light around corners

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Light can be directed and steered around bends using a method similar to the way...

Data centres may soon burn as much extra gas as California uses daily

Data centres may soon burn as much extra gas as Califor...

SIN Nov 1, 2024 0 2

In support of their AI ambitions, tech companies are rapidly expanding US data c...

War-era sugar rationing boosted health of UK people conceived in 1940s

War-era sugar rationing boosted health of UK people con...

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People conceived during the UK's 1940s and 50s sugar rationing have a lower risk...

Lakes are losing winter ice cover at an astonishing rate

Lakes are losing winter ice cover at an astonishing rate

SIN Oct 31, 2024 0 2

Fewer lakes are freezing over each winter compared with past years, posing envir...

A bizarre skeleton from a Roman grave has bones from seven people

A bizarre skeleton from a Roman grave has bones from se...

SIN Oct 31, 2024 0 4

Radiocarbon dating and DNA analysis have revealed that a complete skeleton found...

Spies can eavesdrop on phone calls by sensing vibrations with radar

Spies can eavesdrop on phone calls by sensing vibration...

SIN Oct 31, 2024 0 1

An off-the-shelf millimetre wave sensor can pick out the tiny vibrations made by...

Chimpanzees will never randomly type the complete works of Shakespeare

Chimpanzees will never randomly type the complete works...

SIN Oct 31, 2024 0 2

The Infinite Monkey Theorem states that illiterate primates could write great li...

Simple fix could make US census more accurate but just as private

Simple fix could make US census more accurate but just ...

SIN Oct 31, 2024 0 2

The US Census Bureau processes data before publishing it in order to keep person...

Simple fix could make the census more accurate but just as private

Simple fix could make the census more accurate but just...

SIN Oct 31, 2024 0 2

The US Census Bureau processes data before publishing it in order to keep person...

Michelangelo's 'The Flood' seems to depict a woman with breast cancer

Michelangelo's 'The Flood' seems to depict a woman with...

SIN Oct 31, 2024 0 6

The Renaissance artist Michelangelo had carried out human dissections, which may...

Cancer atlas reveals how tumours evolve inside the body

Cancer atlas reveals how tumours evolve inside the body

SIN Oct 31, 2024 0 2

A massive undertaking to map cancer tumours is providing new insights into how t...

AI can use tourist photos to help track Antarctica’s penguins

AI can use tourist photos to help track Antarctica’s pe...

SIN Oct 31, 2024 0 3

Scientists used AI to transform tourist photos into a 3D digital map of Antarcti...

Oldest tadpole fossil known to science dates back 161 million years

Oldest tadpole fossil known to science dates back 161 m...

SIN Oct 30, 2024 0 2

A fossil of a tadpole from Argentina is 161 million years old - and isn't that d...

Astronauts could hitch a ride on asteroids to get to Venus or Mars

Astronauts could hitch a ride on asteroids to get to Ve...

SIN Oct 30, 2024 0 1

Asteroids that regularly fly between Earth, Venus and Mars could provide radiati...

The Amazon is teetering on the edge of a climate tipping point

The Amazon is teetering on the edge of a climate tippin...

SIN Oct 30, 2024 0 1

In some recent years, the Amazon biome released more carbon than it absorbed, an...

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