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Mathematician wins 2024 Abel prize for making sense of randomness

Mathematician wins 2024 Abel prize for making sense of ...

SIN Mar 20, 2024 0 4

Michel Talagrand has won the 2024 Abel prize for his work researching probabilit...

Artists who use AI are more productive but less original

Artists who use AI are more productive but less original

SIN Mar 20, 2024 0 2

An analysis of work posted on a popular art-sharing website finds that users who...

Amazingly preserved Bronze Age village reveals life in ancient England

Amazingly preserved Bronze Age village reveals life in ...

SIN Mar 20, 2024 0 3

A settlement in the east of England burned down in a fire 3000 years ago, fallin...

Human brains have been mysteriously preserved for thousands of years

Human brains have been mysteriously preserved for thous...

SIN Mar 20, 2024 0 3

Intact human brains 12,000 years old or more have been found in unexpected place...

CRISPR could disable and cure HIV, suggests promising lab experiment

CRISPR could disable and cure HIV, suggests promising l...

SIN Mar 20, 2024 0 1

The gene-editing strategy could be a way to disable HIV that lies dormant in imm...

61 Unexpected PFAS ‘Forever Chemicals’ Found in Food Packaging

61 Unexpected PFAS ‘Forever Chemicals’ Found in Food Pa...

SIN Mar 20, 2024 0 1

A global study identified 61 PFAS chemicals in food packaging that are not autho...

Wegovy Is First Weight-Loss Drug Approved for Heart Diseases

Wegovy Is First Weight-Loss Drug Approved for Heart Dis...

SIN Mar 20, 2024 0 27

The FDA recently approved semaglutide (Wegovy) for preventing serious heart cond...

Evidence Does Not Support the Use of the Death Penalty

Evidence Does Not Support the Use of the Death Penalty

SIN Mar 20, 2024 0 29

Capital punishment must come to an end. It does not deter crime, is not humane a...

Readers Respond to the December 2023 Issue

Readers Respond to the December 2023 Issue

SIN Mar 20, 2024 0 3

Letters to the editors for the December 2023 issue of Scientific American

NASA, Industry Improve Lidars for Exploration, Science

NASA, Industry Improve Lidars for Exploration, Science

SIN Mar 20, 2024 0 2

NASA engineers will test a suite of new laser technologies from an aircraft this...

Sketch the Shape of the Sun for Science During the Solar Eclipse

Sketch the Shape of the Sun for Science During the Sola...

SIN Mar 20, 2024 0 1

Calling all eclipse admirers! The SunSketcher team is looking for one million vo...

NASA Radar Finds Ice Deposits at Moon’s North Pole

NASA Radar Finds Ice Deposits at Moon’s North Pole

SIN Mar 20, 2024 0 2

Additional evidence of water activity on moon Using data from a NASA radar that ...

NASA to Select Lunar Terrain Vehicle for Artemis Missions

NASA to Select Lunar Terrain Vehicle for Artemis Missions

SIN Mar 20, 2024 0 2

NASA will host a news conference to announce the company, or companies, selected...

New Insights from AI, Strange Metals and Parents of LGBTQ Kids

New Insights from AI, Strange Metals and Parents of LGB...

SIN Mar 20, 2024 0 2

AI has deciphered ancient texts, learned new math and provided new ideas about h...

The Dangers of Fast Science

The Dangers of Fast Science

SIN Mar 20, 2024 0 16

Scientific research needs to slow down, not speed up, to produce trustworthy res...

Partial Heart Transplants Grow with Their Young Recipients

Partial Heart Transplants Grow with Their Young Recipients

SIN Mar 20, 2024 0 1

A heart valve transplant could save the life of a baby—or two

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