Space & Physics

Our ultra-mobile arm joints may have evolved for climbing down trees

Our ultra-mobile arm joints may have evolved for climbi...

SIN Sep 6, 2023 0 3

Compared with monkeys, great apes have greater range of motion in their shoulder...

Mysterious ancient stones were deliberately made into spheres

Mysterious ancient stones were deliberately made into s...

SIN Sep 6, 2023 0 4

Stone balls found at a site used by early humans about 1.4 million years ago did...

Gannets prefer to roll either right or left when they dive

Gannets prefer to roll either right or left when they dive

SIN Sep 6, 2023 0 4

Northern gannets show a consistent preference for one side or the other when div...

Spotted salamander eggs hatch more easily if nibbled by predators

Spotted salamander eggs hatch more easily if nibbled by...

SIN Sep 6, 2023 0 3

Removing some of the thick jelly layers surrounding spotted salamander eggs may ...

GPT-4 wins chatbot lawyer contest – but is still not as good as humans

GPT-4 wins chatbot lawyer contest – but is still not as...

SIN Sep 6, 2023 0 18

Several AI chatbots were tested to see how well they could perform legal reasoni...

Weird ways that animals experience the world differently to us

Weird ways that animals experience the world differentl...

SIN Sep 6, 2023 0 4

Many animals sense their surroundings in ways that are hard to imagine. Christie...

Terracotta Army shoes reveal secrets of ancient Chinese footwear

Terracotta Army shoes reveal secrets of ancient Chinese...

SIN Sep 6, 2023 0 6

An analysis of the sculpted shoes on the statues in China’s Terracotta Army, whi...

Why is Wegovy weight-loss jab so hard to get access to?

Why is Wegovy weight-loss jab so hard to get access to?

SIN Sep 5, 2023 0 1

Soaring US demand and high drug prices may be keeping the weight loss injections...

Why haven't we got useful quantum computers yet?

Why haven't we got useful quantum computers yet?

SIN Sep 5, 2023 0 3

Four years after Google first demonstrated the supremacy of quantum computers ov...

India's moon craft enter sleep mode and await freezing lunar night

India's moon craft enter sleep mode and await freezing ...

SIN Sep 4, 2023 0 4

The Chandrayaan-3 mission is officially complete, with both the rover and lander...

Killing of rare Italian bear raises fears for future of its subspecies

Killing of rare Italian bear raises fears for future of...

SIN Sep 4, 2023 0 6

The shooting of Amarena, one of around 60 remaining Marsican brown bears in cent...

Invasive species are now a major threat to wildlife, farms and people

Invasive species are now a major threat to wildlife, fa...

SIN Sep 4, 2023 0 27

The proliferation of alien species costs the global economy more than $420 billi...

Ancient armoured animal leads to rethink of reptile evolutionary tree

Ancient armoured animal leads to rethink of reptile evo...

SIN Sep 4, 2023 0 4

Fossilised remains of a 250-million-year-old animal are leading to a new underst...

Pirate spiders ambush prey by tricking them with lines of silk

Pirate spiders ambush prey by tricking them with lines ...

SIN Sep 4, 2023 0 4

A species of pirate spider in Costa Rica has a hunting strategy that has never b...

Engineers are building the first bridge over a moving rock glacier

Engineers are building the first bridge over a moving r...

SIN Sep 4, 2023 0 5

In Denali National Park, Alaska, a major road has been rapidly slipping down a m...

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-6 Safely Returns to Earth Near Florida Coast

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-6 Safely Returns to Earth Near Flori...

SIN Sep 4, 2023 0 23

After splashing down safely in a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft off the coast of Jacks...

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