Astrophysics

Life’s vital chemistry may have begun in hot, cracked rock

Life’s vital chemistry may have begun in hot, cracked rock

SIN Apr 4, 2024 0 31

Amino acids and other molecules important to the origin of life can be enriched ...

Laser-powered licence plates could help avoid satellite collisions

Laser-powered licence plates could help avoid satellite...

SIN Apr 3, 2024 0 26

It can be difficult to identify satellites that have lost power, increasing the ...

Microsoft's quantum computer may be the most reliable yet

Microsoft's quantum computer may be the most reliable yet

SIN Apr 3, 2024 0 3

A quantum computer built by Microsoft and quantum computing firm Quantinuum uses...

Snakes show signs of self-recognition in a smell-based 'mirror test'

Snakes show signs of self-recognition in a smell-based ...

SIN Apr 3, 2024 0 2

Garter snakes may recognise their own scent and react differently when it is alt...

Showing AI just 1000 extra images reduced AI-generated stereotypes

Showing AI just 1000 extra images reduced AI-generated ...

SIN Apr 3, 2024 0 5

Researchers made an AI image generator produce less offensive images by feeding ...

Babies recognise spoken nursery rhymes they heard in the uterus

Babies recognise spoken nursery rhymes they heard in th...

SIN Apr 3, 2024 0 32

Previous research suggests that babies can recognise nursery rhymes that were su...

Planet caught in a gravitational 'tidal storm' is so hot that it glows

Planet caught in a gravitational 'tidal storm' is so ho...

SIN Apr 3, 2024 0 22

A strange world is being stretched out of shape by its neighbouring planets, hea...

I went hunting for a zombie fungus worth more than its weight in gold

I went hunting for a zombie fungus worth more than its ...

SIN Apr 2, 2024 0 1

The fungus yartsa gunbu, which grows by turning caterpillars into zombies, is pr...

Therapy that turns lymph nodes into livers gets first human trial

Therapy that turns lymph nodes into livers gets first h...

SIN Apr 2, 2024 0 2

An experimental therapy that grows miniature livers inside a person’s lymph node...

Astronomers have found what may be the smallest galaxy ever

Astronomers have found what may be the smallest galaxy ...

SIN Apr 2, 2024 0 2

A tiny clump of stars orbiting our galaxy should have been ripped apart by the M...

Bird flu confirmed in person who had contact with infected dairy cows

Bird flu confirmed in person who had contact with infec...

SIN Apr 2, 2024 0 1

A person in Texas has been infected with bird flu after exposure to dairy cows w...

‘Yell at your robot’ technique teaches robots household chores

‘Yell at your robot’ technique teaches robots household...

SIN Apr 1, 2024 0 4

AI allows robots to listen to verbal instructions while learning to correctly pe...

How solar eclipses have been revealing cosmic secrets for centuries

How solar eclipses have been revealing cosmic secrets f...

SIN Apr 1, 2024 0 2

Records of total solar eclipses go back thousands of years, and in all that time...

Why vigorous exercise could inadvertently lead to weight gain

Why vigorous exercise could inadvertently lead to weigh...

SIN Apr 1, 2024 0 3

Intense exercise may make the body compensate for energy used during this vigoro...

AI chatbots beat humans at persuading their opponents in debates

AI chatbots beat humans at persuading their opponents i...

SIN Apr 1, 2024 0 3

When people were challenged to debate contentious topics with a human or GPT-4, ...

Heatwaves now last much longer than they did in the 1980s

Heatwaves now last much longer than they did in the 1980s

SIN Mar 30, 2024 0 4

A global analysis of heatwaves over a span of 40 years shows that they are getti...

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