Space & Physics

US government tests new vapour-sniffing drug detector at the border

US government tests new vapour-sniffing drug detector a...

SIN Jul 7, 2025 0 24

Drugs and explosive chemicals are difficult to detect, but a device more sensiti...

Aaisha Ali: From Marine Biology to the Artemis Control Room

Aaisha Ali: From Marine Biology to the Artemis Control ...

SIN Jul 7, 2025 0 14

As humanity prepares to return to the lunar surface, Aaisha Ali is behind the sc...

'Hybrid' skull may have been a child of Neanderthal and Homo sapiens

'Hybrid' skull may have been a child of Neanderthal and...

SIN Jul 7, 2025 0 13

The skull of a 5-year-old girl who lived 140,000 years ago has similarities with...

AI could be about to completely change the way we do mathematics

AI could be about to completely change the way we do ma...

SIN Jul 7, 2025 0 29

Computers can help ensure that mathematical proofs are correct, but translating ...

Fig trees may benefit climate by turning carbon dioxide into stone

Fig trees may benefit climate by turning carbon dioxide...

SIN Jul 6, 2025 0 16

Some carbon dioxide absorbed by fig trees gets turned into calcium carbonate wit...

Ancient mass extinction shows how Earth turned into a super-greenhouse

Ancient mass extinction shows how Earth turned into a s...

SIN Jul 5, 2025 0 45

A study of fossils from the Permian-Triassic extinction event 252 million years ...

Cyberattacks could exploit home solar panels to disrupt power grids

Cyberattacks could exploit home solar panels to disrupt...

SIN Jul 4, 2025 0 19

The growth of domestic solar installations opens the possibility of hackers targ...

We finally understand why quasicrystals can exist

We finally understand why quasicrystals can exist

SIN Jul 4, 2025 0 26

Not quite crystals and not quite a glass, quasicrystals are an oddity whose prop...

Carbon-offset schemes aren't prepared for forests to burn

Carbon-offset schemes aren't prepared for forests to burn

SIN Jul 4, 2025 0 29

Forest-based carbon-offset projects need a buffer to guarantee their climate ben...

Meteorite causes rethink of how and when our solar system formed

Meteorite causes rethink of how and when our solar syst...

SIN Jul 4, 2025 0 19

Rocky bodies called protoplanets were thought to have formed slightly earlier in...

Quantum-enhanced supercomputers are starting to do chemistry

Quantum-enhanced supercomputers are starting to do chem...

SIN Jul 4, 2025 0 27

Working in tandem, a quantum computer and a supercomputer modelled the behaviour...

Energy drinks could cause less dental damage with a simple addition

Energy drinks could cause less dental damage with a sim...

SIN Jul 4, 2025 0 19

The acidity of drinks like Red Bull can erode dental enamel, but a lab experimen...

NASA Remembers Former Johnson Director Jefferson Howell

NASA Remembers Former Johnson Director Jefferson Howell

SIN Jul 4, 2025 0 16

July 3, 2025 Jefferson Davis Howell, Jr., former director of NASA’s Johnson Spac...

3D printing could enable a long-term treatment for type 1 diabetes

3D printing could enable a long-term treatment for type...

SIN Jul 4, 2025 0 23

Small, 3D-printed devices, designed to be implanted directly under the skin, cou...

Hubble Observations Give “Missing” Globular Cluster Time to Shine

Hubble Observations Give “Missing” Globular Cluster Tim...

SIN Jul 4, 2025 0 353

A previously unexplored globular cluster glitters with multicolored stars in thi...

NASA Mission Monitoring Air Quality from Space Extended

NASA Mission Monitoring Air Quality from Space Extended

SIN Jul 4, 2025 0 12

Since launching in 2023, NASA’s Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution ...

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