Space & Physics

Early humans made jewellery from giant sloth bones

Early humans made jewellery from giant sloth bones

SIN Jul 12, 2023 0 5

The bones were shaped by people using stone tools before they were fossilised, a...

Birds are using anti-bird spikes to make their nests

Birds are using anti-bird spikes to make their nests

SIN Jul 12, 2023 0 31

Magpies and crows have been seen making nests using spikes placed on buildings t...

Decade-long struggle over maths proof could be decided by $1m prize

Decade-long struggle over maths proof could be decided ...

SIN Jul 12, 2023 0 4

Mathematician Shinichi Mochizuki's Inter-universal Teichmüller theory has attrac...

Canadian lake selected as site to mark the start of the Anthropocene

Canadian lake selected as site to mark the start of the...

SIN Jul 12, 2023 0 4

Geologists hoping to declare a new epoch dominated by humanity’s influence on Ea...

Blanket for electric cars helps preserve battery performance

Blanket for electric cars helps preserve battery perfor...

SIN Jul 11, 2023 0 5

The lithium-ion batteries found in electric cars work best when kept within a ce...

NASA to Discuss Science on Next Northrop Grumman Space Station Mission

NASA to Discuss Science on Next Northrop Grumman Space ...

SIN Jul 11, 2023 0 7

NASA will host a media teleconference at 10 a.m. EDT on Tuesday, July 18, to dis...

Carbon tax on luxuries is fairer way to cut emissions, finds analysis

Carbon tax on luxuries is fairer way to cut emissions, ...

SIN Jul 11, 2023 0 29

Instead of a uniform tax on carbon emissions, countries should apply higher taxe...

Meteorite left Earth then landed back down after round trip to space

Meteorite left Earth then landed back down after round ...

SIN Jul 11, 2023 0 4

Most of the meteorites found on Earth come from asteroids, but a few come from o...

People who microdose LSD sleep an extra 24 minutes the following night

People who microdose LSD sleep an extra 24 minutes the ...

SIN Jul 11, 2023 0 19

Taking small amounts of the psychedelic substance LSD led to people sleeping for...

Swarm of storm-resilient drones will soon fly into Atlantic hurricanes

Swarm of storm-resilient drones will soon fly into Atla...

SIN Jul 11, 2023 0 7

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is sending both flying and s...

Mosquitoes made immune to malaria could help stamp out the disease

Mosquitoes made immune to malaria could help stamp out ...

SIN Jul 11, 2023 0 34

A gene-editing technique makes mosquitoes produce antibodies against the malaria...

People with total colour blindness able to see red after gene therapy

People with total colour blindness able to see red afte...

SIN Jul 11, 2023 0 28

Thanks to gene therapy, people who could previously only detect shades of grey c...

NASA Expands Options for Spacewalking, Moonwalking Suits, Services

NASA Expands Options for Spacewalking, Moonwalking Suit...

SIN Jul 11, 2023 0 21

NASA has awarded Axiom Space and Collins Aerospace task orders under existing co...

Sex between two males is extremely common in wild macaque monkeys

Sex between two males is extremely common in wild macaq...

SIN Jul 10, 2023 0 25

Almost three-quarters of male macaques observed by scientists mounted other male...

Summer 2022 heatwaves killed 61,000 people in Europe

Summer 2022 heatwaves killed 61,000 people in Europe

SIN Jul 10, 2023 0 30

Last year's summer was the hottest season ever recorded in Europe, and a new est...

Gravitational waves spark hunt for cosmic strings and dark matter

Gravitational waves spark hunt for cosmic strings and d...

SIN Jul 10, 2023 0 7

The discovery of low-level ripples throughout the universe called the gravitatio...

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