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Neandertal babies were a lot like ours — but didn’t stay that way

Neandertal babies were a lot like ours — but didn’t sta...

SIN Jul 9, 2026 0 26

Two studies of Neandertal remains suggest their newborns were about the same siz...

Can geoengineering blunt El Niño’s fury?

Can geoengineering blunt El Niño’s fury?

SIN Jul 9, 2026 0 28

Marine cloud brightening could cool part of the Pacific and weaken extreme El Ni...

A shoebox-sized satellite could expose hidden nuclear weapons in space

A shoebox-sized satellite could expose hidden nuclear w...

SIN Jul 8, 2026 0 22

There’s never been a good method to check for violations of the Outer Space Trea...

AI tools meant to vet science are surprisingly easy to fool

AI tools meant to vet science are surprisingly easy to ...

SIN Jul 8, 2026 0 27

The gold standard of scientific review, peer review by researchers’ colleagues, ...

A robot swarm is on a mission to map Greenland’s perilous ice sheets

A robot swarm is on a mission to map Greenland’s perilo...

SIN Jul 8, 2026 0 15

The ambitious expedition aims to fill data gaps about the glacier-sea boundary t...

Many U.S. teens underestimate fentanyl’s deadly risk

Many U.S. teens underestimate fentanyl’s deadly risk

SIN Jul 7, 2026 0 19

A majority of 8th-graders and roughly a third of 10th- and 12th-graders do not s...

Pickles glow when you plug them in. Science explains why

Pickles glow when you plug them in. Science explains why

SIN Jul 6, 2026 0 21

A scientist, a jar of pickles and a power strip walk into a room. The punchline ...

‘Hobbits’ likely scavenged dragons’ kills

‘Hobbits’ likely scavenged dragons’ kills

SIN Jul 6, 2026 0 42

Homo floresiensis may have scavenged Komodo dragon leftovers instead of hunting ...

This microbe turns into a cannibalistic ‘Hulk’

This microbe turns into a cannibalistic ‘Hulk’

SIN Jul 6, 2026 0 23

Euplotes gigatrox’s shape-shifting may reveal how early life learned to act in s...

Crabs can’t hide from an octopus with a mirror

Crabs can’t hide from an octopus with a mirror

SIN Jul 6, 2026 0 23

New experiments show that octopuses can understand where an item is based solely...

CERN shutters the Large Hadron Collider for a major transformation

CERN shutters the Large Hadron Collider for a major tra...

SIN Jul 6, 2026 0 20

The High-Luminosity LHC, planned to switch on in 2030, could help physicists unr...

A discovery about this bat’s diet was hiding in a Renaissance painting

A discovery about this bat’s diet was hiding in a Renai...

SIN Jul 6, 2026 0 22

Renaissance painter Jan Brueghel the Elder painted a bat eating a bird — 400 yea...

A whopping 14 million species of insects — or more — may roam Earth

A whopping 14 million species of insects — or more — ma...

SIN Jul 6, 2026 0 20

New calculations suggest that the insect species inhabiting our planet may be do...

Acetaminophen in pregnancy shows no link to autism or ADHD, again

Acetaminophen in pregnancy shows no link to autism or A...

SIN Jul 6, 2026 0 17

Reassuring evidence on acetaminophen’s safety in pregnancy keeps growing, with a...

How big a cybersecurity threat are the latest AI models, really?

How big a cybersecurity threat are the latest AI models...

SIN Jul 6, 2026 0 23

New AI models are accelerating the game of cat-and-mouse as cybersecurity expert...

Giant, deep-sea roly-polies steal a gene to endure starvation

Giant, deep-sea roly-polies steal a gene to endure star...

SIN Jul 6, 2026 0 23

The enormous deep-sea cousins of your garden’s pill bugs can go five years witho...

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