Astronomers let gaseous disks tilt and shrink in virtual wind tunnel

A team of Dutch astronomers, led by Thomas Wijnen from Radboud University, has managed to tilt…

Artificial intelligence cyber attacks are coming – but what does that mean?

The next major cyberattack could involve artificial intelligence systems. It could even happen soon: At a…

Big dishes band together

Earlier this month, radio dishes from three deep-space networks combined to catch faint 'survival' whispers from…

Image: Hubble’s dwarf-sized, double-named galaxy

The galaxy NGC 178 may be small, but it packs quite a punch. Measuring around 40,000…

Researchers demonstrate high-bandwidth communications capability for ships

A team of engineers from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), in Laurel, Maryland,…

Largest Ichthyosaurus was pregnant mother, say palaeontologists

Scientists from the UK and Germany have discovered the largest Ichthyosaurus on record and found it…

Galaxy clusters offer clues to dark matter and dark energy

It's a cosmic irony: the biggest things in the universe can also be the hardest to…

Image: Copernicus Sentinel-3A satellite watching Harvey

The Copernicus Sentinel-3A satellite saw the temperature at the top of Hurricane Harvey on 25 August…

Modelling rare events in complex systems

NUS mathematicians have developed efficient methods to study complex energy landscapes and thermally activated events. Many…

Chromosome mechanics guide nuclear assembly

Every one of our cells stores its genome within the nucleus – the quintessential subcellular structure…