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Review: How Henrietta Leavitt and the ‘Harvard Computers’ Launched Modern Cosmology

Review: How Henrietta Leavitt and the ‘Harvard Computer...

SIN Aug 20, 2024 0 2

A new biography of astronomer Henrietta Leavitt celebrates meaning making in sci...

Voting Is Just the Beginning

Voting Is Just the Beginning

SIN Aug 20, 2024 0 2

Your vote matters. But so does your involvement in civic actions

September 2024: Science History from 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago

September 2024: Science History from 50, 100 and 150 Ye...

SIN Aug 20, 2024 0 3

Mysterious Mercury; spiders predict the weather

How Did Dinosaurs See, Smell, Hear and Move?

How Did Dinosaurs See, Smell, Hear and Move?

SIN Aug 20, 2024 0 7

New fossils and analytical tools provide unprecedented insights into dinosaur se...

Many Older People Maintain and Even Gain Cognitive Skills

Many Older People Maintain and Even Gain Cognitive Skills

SIN Aug 20, 2024 0 2

Contrary to stereotypes of the doddering elderly, research shows that half of pe...

Do Space and Time Follow Quantum Rules? These Mind-Bending Experiments Aim to Find Out

Do Space and Time Follow Quantum Rules? These Mind-Bend...

SIN Aug 20, 2024 0 14

Proposed experiments will search for signs that spacetime is quantum and can exi...

Review: In Toward Eternity, People Merge with AI but Cling to Music and Poetry

Review: In Toward Eternity, People Merge with AI but Cl...

SIN Aug 20, 2024 0 3

A sweeping novel about a war-torn future explores personhood and identity

Find the Next Digits in the Sequence in This Math Puzzle

Find the Next Digits in the Sequence in This Math Puzzle

SIN Aug 20, 2024 0 2

Can you find the pattern behind this progression of digits?

Review: ‘Third-Ear Listening’ Is the Secret to Perceiving the World

Review: ‘Third-Ear Listening’ Is the Secret to Perceivi...

SIN Aug 20, 2024 0 2

A new book about the art and science of listening explores our sonic universe

Readers Respond to the April 2024 Issue

Readers Respond to the April 2024 Issue

SIN Aug 20, 2024 0 1

Letters to the editors for the April 2024 issue of Scientific American

AI could help shrinking pool of coders keep outdated programs working

AI could help shrinking pool of coders keep outdated pr...

SIN Aug 20, 2024 0 5

Computer code dating back to the 1960s is still vital to banks, airlines and gov...

Hubble Examines a Possible Relic

Hubble Examines a Possible Relic

SIN Aug 20, 2024 0 3

This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image captures the dwarf irregular galaxy UGC 4...

Sols 4280-4281: Last Call at Kings Canyon

Sols 4280-4281: Last Call at Kings Canyon

SIN Aug 20, 2024 0 9

Earth planning date: Monday, Aug. 19, 2024 Curiosity successfully completed the ...

Entrepreneurs Challenge Prize Winner Uses Artificial Intelligence to Identify Methane Emissions

Entrepreneurs Challenge Prize Winner Uses Artificial In...

SIN Aug 20, 2024 0 4

The NASA Science Mission Directorate (SMD) instituted the Entrepreneurs Challeng...

Watch the Blue Supermoon Rise Tonight

Watch the Blue Supermoon Rise Tonight

SIN Aug 20, 2024 0 4

August’s supermoon will be the first of four supermoons in a row

Trump's Weird Debate Strategies Come From Creationist Tactics

Trump's Weird Debate Strategies Come From Creationist T...

SIN Aug 20, 2024 0 8

A dishonest creationist debating tactic shouldn’t go unchallenged in American li...

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