Astrophysics

Experts say US flights are safe now but flag warning signs to look for

Experts say US flights are safe now but flag warning si...

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Flying commercially in the US remains low risk despite a recent mid-air collisio...

Birds' nests in Amsterdam are made up of plastic from 30 years ago

Birds' nests in Amsterdam are made up of plastic from 3...

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Coots' nests in Amsterdam are built using discarded plastic, providing a time ca...

Lasers can help detect radioactive materials from afar

Lasers can help detect radioactive materials from afar

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In a record-breaking test, researchers remotely detected radioactive material by...

Two huge black holes merged into one and went flying across the cosmos

Two huge black holes merged into one and went flying ac...

SIN Mar 6, 2025 0 16

A supermassive black hole that doesn't appear to be where we would expect seems ...

Do we all see red as the same colour? We finally have an answer

Do we all see red as the same colour? We finally have a...

SIN Mar 6, 2025 0 11

It is impossible for us to know exactly how another person's experience of the w...

Global sea ice levels just hit a new record low

Global sea ice levels just hit a new record low

SIN Mar 6, 2025 0 5

Sea ice cover in both the Antarctic and Arctic remained far below average throug...

Men taking antibiotics could cut rates of bacterial vaginosis in women

Men taking antibiotics could cut rates of bacterial vag...

SIN Mar 6, 2025 0 6

Bacterial vaginosis, which is caused by bacteria overgrowing in the vagina, can ...

Quantum disorder is dependent on who is looking for it

Quantum disorder is dependent on who is looking for it

SIN Mar 6, 2025 0 6

A new understanding of how an observer can change the disorder, or entropy, of a...

Norovirus vaccine pill shows promise against 'winter vomiting' bug

Norovirus vaccine pill shows promise against 'winter vo...

SIN Mar 6, 2025 0 5

Most people recover from norovirus, a highly contagious infection, within a few ...

Ancient humans used bone tools a million years earlier than we thought

Ancient humans used bone tools a million years earlier ...

SIN Mar 5, 2025 0 5

Hominins may have learned how to make bone tools by adapting the techniques they...

Light has been transformed into a 'supersolid' for the first time

Light has been transformed into a 'supersolid' for the ...

SIN Mar 5, 2025 0 5

Supersolids are strange materials that behave like both a solid and a fluid due ...

The solar system was once engulfed by a vast wave of gas and dust

The solar system was once engulfed by a vast wave of ga...

SIN Mar 5, 2025 0 5

The stars as seen from Earth would have looked dimmer 14 million years ago, as t...

Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton win Turing award for AI training trick

Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton win Turing award for AI...

SIN Mar 5, 2025 0 5

The Turing award, often considered the Nobel prize of computing, has gone to two...

Chimps and bonobos relieve social tension by rubbing their genitals

Chimps and bonobos relieve social tension by rubbing th...

SIN Mar 5, 2025 0 6

When competition for food is high, both chimps and bonobos sometimes rub their g...

DOGE eliminated the US government’s tech experts – what has been lost?

DOGE eliminated the US government’s tech experts – what...

SIN Mar 5, 2025 0 5

The Trump administration’s latest move to improve government efficiency has purg...

Why exactly is the quantum world so weird?

Why exactly is the quantum world so weird?

SIN Mar 5, 2025 0 9

We can describe the quantum realm using straightforward mathematics – but once w...

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