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Satellite Mega Constellations Could Jeopardize Ozone-Hole Recovery

Satellite Mega Constellations Could Jeopardize Ozone-Ho...

SIN Jun 25, 2024 0 1

Pollution from skyrocketing numbers of satellites burning up in Earth’s atmosphe...

What Vitamins and Minerals Really Do in Your Body

What Vitamins and Minerals Really Do in Your Body

SIN Jun 25, 2024 0 3

Humans need around 30 vitamins and minerals to keep our bodies functioning

July/August 2024: Three New Books, Reviewed

July/August 2024: Three New Books, Reviewed

SIN Jun 25, 2024 0 2

A riveting quest to map the world; quantum physics in a four-act drama; climate ...

What would happen if Earth was the centre of the solar system?

What would happen if Earth was the centre of the solar ...

SIN Jun 25, 2024 0 3

Geocentrism, the idea that everything in the universe revolves around Earth, has...

Teens’ Mental Health May Improve When They Help Others

Teens’ Mental Health May Improve When They Help Others

SIN Jun 25, 2024 0 2

Volunteering in community programs can reduce youth depression and anxiety, rese...

Advanced Meditation Alters Consciousness and Our Basic Sense of Self

Advanced Meditation Alters Consciousness and Our Basic ...

SIN Jun 25, 2024 0 2

An emerging science of advanced meditation could transform mental health and our...

Highly Invasive Spotted Lanternflies May Have a Surprising Weakness: Vibrations

Highly Invasive Spotted Lanternflies May Have a Surpris...

SIN Jun 25, 2024 0 4

Spotted lanternflies are sometimes drawn to power line vibrations—and scientists...

Mangrove Trees Are on the Move, Taking the Tropics with Them

Mangrove Trees Are on the Move, Taking the Tropics with...

SIN Jun 25, 2024 0 4

As the climate warms, mangroves are migrating farther poleward, transforming the...

Book Review: Why People Collect Trees and You Should, Too

Book Review: Why People Collect Trees and You Should, Too

SIN Jun 25, 2024 0 2

A new book about tree collectors shows how arboreal curation is an outlet for ar...

Contributors to Scientific American’s July/August 2024 Issue

Contributors to Scientific American’s July/August 2024 ...

SIN Jun 25, 2024 0 3

Writers, artists, photographers and researchers share the stories behind the sto...

How the Math of Cracks Can Make Planes, Bridges and Dams Safer

How the Math of Cracks Can Make Planes, Bridges and Dam...

SIN Jun 25, 2024 0 2

Better predictions of how cracks grow can make machines and structures more reli...

People Who Are Fat and Healthy May Hold Keys to Understanding Obesity

People Who Are Fat and Healthy May Hold Keys to Underst...

SIN Jun 25, 2024 0 3

“Heavy and healthy” can be a rare or common condition. But either way it may sig...

Poem: ‘An Ars Poetica’

Poem: ‘An Ars Poetica’

SIN Jun 25, 2024 0 2

Science in meter and verse

New Understandings of Food, Fat, Fitness and Evolution

New Understandings of Food, Fat, Fitness and Evolution

SIN Jun 25, 2024 0 2

Quantum observers, migrating mangroves, the deep history of an asteroid and unde...

Dazzling photos capture the unreal beauty of insects

Dazzling photos capture the unreal beauty of insects

SIN Jun 25, 2024 0 3

Sleeping cuckoo bees, colourful cotton harlequin bugs and a thorny lacewing trap...

How Earth Went from a Sterile Rock to a Lush, Living Planet

How Earth Went from a Sterile Rock to a Lush, Living Pl...

SIN Jun 25, 2024 0 3

From microbes to mammoths, life has transformed Earth into one big living system...

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