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The World Isn’t Ready for the Mental Health Toll of Extreme Heat

The World Isn’t Ready for the Mental Health Toll of Ext...

SIN Jun 3, 2025 0 41

Temperatures are rising, and so are mental health risks

There may be a surprising upside to losing coral reefs as oceans warm

There may be a surprising upside to losing coral reefs ...

SIN Jun 3, 2025 0 36

As warmer waters and ocean acidification reduce coral formation, the seas will t...

Best quantum 'transistor' yet could lead to more accurate computers

Best quantum 'transistor' yet could lead to more accura...

SIN Jun 3, 2025 0 38

Microwaves can control a single quantum bit more precisely than ever before, cre...

A Star Like No Other

A Star Like No Other

SIN Jun 3, 2025 0 35

An unusual star (circled in white at right) behaving like no other seen before a...

What’s Up: June 2025 Skywatching Tips from NASA

What’s Up: June 2025 Skywatching Tips from NASA

SIN Jun 2, 2025 0 37

Planets, Solstice, and the Galaxy Venus and Saturn separate, while Mars hangs ou...

Engineered Viruses Are Transforming Neuroscience and Treating Brain Disease

Engineered Viruses Are Transforming Neuroscience and Tr...

SIN Jun 2, 2025 0 35

Neuroscientists can now make precise genetic tweaks to the neurons that are most...

Apocalypse When? Hubble Casts Doubt on Certainty of Galactic Collision

Apocalypse When? Hubble Casts Doubt on Certainty of Gal...

SIN Jun 2, 2025 0 40

As far back as 1912, astronomers realized that the Andromeda galaxy — then thoug...

South Korean Haenyeo Divers’ Extreme Lifestyle Is Shaping Their Genetics

South Korean Haenyeo Divers’ Extreme Lifestyle Is Shapi...

SIN Jun 2, 2025 0 35

The Haenyeo, an all-female group of divers on South Korea’s Jeju Island, spend m...

Trillion dollars' worth of platinum waiting to be mined on the moon

Trillion dollars' worth of platinum waiting to be mined...

SIN Jun 2, 2025 0 33

Mining craters on the moon could be more practical than extracting precious meta...

First Vaccine for Gonorrhea Rolls Out, Measles Outbreak in Texas Slows, and Megalodon Diets Are Investigated

First Vaccine for Gonorrhea Rolls Out, Measles Outbreak...

SIN Jun 2, 2025 0 45

It’s one step forward and two steps back for vaccine policy in the U.S. Plus, we...

Black Death Plague Bacterium Became Less Fatal thanks to Just One Genetic Tweak

Black Death Plague Bacterium Became Less Fatal thanks t...

SIN Jun 2, 2025 0 40

Reducing the copies of one gene in the bubonic plague bacterium, Yersinia pestis...

Reviving Dead Lithium-Ion Batteries with an AI-Derived Electrolyte Solution

Reviving Dead Lithium-Ion Batteries with an AI-Derived ...

SIN Jun 2, 2025 0 32

Electric vehicles leave behind mountains of dead lithium-ion batteries. A new “i...

The global temperature may be even higher than we thought

The global temperature may be even higher than we thought

SIN Jun 2, 2025 0 38

Researchers have proposed a more accurate way to calculate the global surface ai...

Dogs pollute water with pesticides even weeks after flea treatment

Dogs pollute water with pesticides even weeks after fle...

SIN Jun 2, 2025 0 30

When dogs given spot treatments for fleas go swimming, they release levels of pe...

Sahara Dust Clouds Are Heading to Florida and Beyond

Sahara Dust Clouds Are Heading to Florida and Beyond

SIN May 31, 2025 0 29

Clouds of dust blown off the Saharan Desert into the southeastern U.S. could aff...

What Causes Glaciers to Collapse like the Event That Buried a Swiss Village?

What Causes Glaciers to Collapse like the Event That Bu...

SIN May 31, 2025 0 30

Climate change and thawing permafrost play a role in destabilizing glaciers

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