Space & Physics

What’s Up: August 2025 Skywatching Tips from NASA

What’s Up: August 2025 Skywatching Tips from NASA

SIN Aug 2, 2025 0 18

Venus-Jupiter Conjunction and Meteor Mojo Jupiter and Venus shine brightly in th...

DNA analysis reveals what really killed Napoleon's army in 1812

DNA analysis reveals what really killed Napoleon's army...

SIN Aug 1, 2025 0 25

At least 300,000 men died during Napoleon’s retreat from Russia - now the latest...

How Joint NASA-ESA Sea Level Mission Will Help Hurricane Forecasts

How Joint NASA-ESA Sea Level Mission Will Help Hurrican...

SIN Aug 1, 2025 0 22

Sentinel-6B will measure sea surface height for nearly all of the world’s ocean,...

Cameras that work like our eyes could give boost to astronomers

Cameras that work like our eyes could give boost to ast...

SIN Aug 1, 2025 0 24

Neuromorphic cameras, which only record data when a pixel's brightness changes, ...

Hubble Surveys Supernova-Rich Spiral

Hubble Surveys Supernova-Rich Spiral

SIN Aug 1, 2025 0 21

Rich with detail, the face-on spiral galaxy NGC 1309 shines in this Hubble Space...

Ozempic really could turn back the clock on your biological age

Ozempic really could turn back the clock on your biolog...

SIN Aug 1, 2025 0 31

When people were randomised to receive either a placebo or Ozempic, they became ...

Kamchatka earthquake response shows tsunami warnings are improving

Kamchatka earthquake response shows tsunami warnings ar...

SIN Aug 1, 2025 0 32

After an 8.8-magnitude earthquake off the coast of Russia’s Kamchatka peninsula,...

Vagus nerve stimulation receives US approval to treat arthritis

Vagus nerve stimulation receives US approval to treat a...

SIN Aug 1, 2025 0 25

The US Food and Drug Administration has approved a pill-sized device for treatin...

E. coli genome has been remade with 101,000 changes to its DNA

E. coli genome has been remade with 101,000 changes to ...

SIN Aug 1, 2025 0 22

The recoded bacterium uses only 57 of the 64 possible genetic codes, freeing up ...

Ageing in the brain may be caused by a breakdown in protein production

Ageing in the brain may be caused by a breakdown in pro...

SIN Aug 1, 2025 0 24

The discovery that brain ageing may be driven by jammed-up protein factories cou...

Sunrise on Crew-11 Launch Attempt

Sunrise on Crew-11 Launch Attempt

SIN Aug 1, 2025 0 46

The Sun rises on the morning of July 31, 2025, ahead of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 mi...

Mystery of the potato's origins solved by genetics

Mystery of the potato's origins solved by genetics

SIN Aug 1, 2025 0 56

Around 8 million years ago, an ancestor of modern tomatoes in South America hydr...

US says CO2 emissions aren’t harmful – climate science shows otherwise

US says CO2 emissions aren’t harmful – climate science ...

SIN Aug 1, 2025 0 38

The Trump administration is attempting to argue that greenhouses gases don’t end...

Common artificial sweetener may interfere with cancer treatments

Common artificial sweetener may interfere with cancer t...

SIN Jul 31, 2025 0 44

People who consume some artificial sweeteners are less likely to respond to cert...

Critics of de-extinction research hit by mystery smear campaign

Critics of de-extinction research hit by mystery smear ...

SIN Jul 31, 2025 0 20

Several researchers who have been critical of Colossal Biosciences’ plans to rev...

Longest lightning ‘mega-flash’ sets a shocking new record

Longest lightning ‘mega-flash’ sets a shocking new record

SIN Jul 31, 2025 0 24

A stroke of lighting that lasted more than 7 seconds and flashed across 829 kilo...

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