A team of Dutch astronomers, led by Thomas Wijnen from Radboud University, has managed to tilt…
Month: August 2017
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…