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Twisted lasers could let us send messages with gravitational waves

Twisted lasers could let us send messages with gravitat...

SIN Sep 25, 2023 0 3

Ripples in space-time called gravitational waves are normally associated with ma...

NASA’s First Asteroid Sample Has Landed, Now Secure in Clean Room

NASA’s First Asteroid Sample Has Landed, Now Secure in ...

SIN Sep 25, 2023 0 1

After years of anticipation and hard work by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectra...

OSIRIS-REx's Asteroid Samples Are Finally Down to Earth

OSIRIS-REx's Asteroid Samples Are Finally Down to Earth

SIN Sep 24, 2023 0 20

OSIRIS-REx—the first U.S. mission to attempt a sample return from a space rock—h...

Discrimination Has Trapped People of Color in Unhealthy Urban 'Heat Islands'

Discrimination Has Trapped People of Color in Unhealthy...

SIN Sep 24, 2023 0 1

People of color, more than other groups, live in neighborhoods prone to excess h...

Rosalind Franklin Deserves a Posthumous Nobel Prize for Co-discovering DNA Structure

Rosalind Franklin Deserves a Posthumous Nobel Prize for...

SIN Sep 24, 2023 0 4

Awarding Rosalind Franklin a Nobel Prize posthumously for her role in DNA discov...

Poem: 'Message to My Beloved Sibling'

Poem: 'Message to My Beloved Sibling'

SIN Sep 23, 2023 0 3

Science in meter and verse

More People Die from Venomous Snakebites Each Year Than Have Ever Died from Ebola

More People Die from Venomous Snakebites Each Year Than...

SIN Sep 23, 2023 0 3

In low- and middle-income nations, snakebite envenoming is more deadly than almo...

Valley Fever Is a Growing Fungal Threat to Outdoor Workers

Valley Fever Is a Growing Fungal Threat to Outdoor Workers

SIN Sep 23, 2023 0 15

The disease hits farmworkers and outdoor laborers disproportionately hard

Online Ads Can Infect Your Device with Spyware

Online Ads Can Infect Your Device with Spyware

SIN Sep 23, 2023 0 31

An investigative report reveals that new spyware can slip in unseen through onli...

Surgeons perform the second ever pig-to-human heart transplant

Surgeons perform the second ever pig-to-human heart tra...

SIN Sep 23, 2023 0 36

The heart of a genetically modified pig has been transplanted into a man with he...

Blood donors may pass on small risk of brain bleed to recipients

Blood donors may pass on small risk of brain bleed to r...

SIN Sep 23, 2023 0 6

Receiving a blood transfusion from someone who later develops a brain haemorrhag...

Massive power line will send Canadian hydropower to New York

Massive power line will send Canadian hydropower to New...

SIN Sep 23, 2023 0 2

New York City has begun construction on a project to hook up its grid to hydroel...

NASA Scientists to Discuss Oct. 14 'Ring of Fire' Solar Eclipse

NASA Scientists to Discuss Oct. 14 'Ring of Fire' Solar...

SIN Sep 23, 2023 0 5

NASA will host a media teleconference at 4 p.m. EDT on Tuesday, Sept. 26, to dis...

U.S. Will Weigh Cost of Carbon Pollution in More Government Decisions

U.S. Will Weigh Cost of Carbon Pollution in More Govern...

SIN Sep 23, 2023 0 4

Calculations determining the climate damage of greenhouse gas emissions—called t...

People Who Are Changing the Environment One Community at a Time

People Who Are Changing the Environment One Community a...

SIN Sep 22, 2023 0 29

These four researchers are highlighting environmental inequities and improving t...

See How AI Generates Images from Text

See How AI Generates Images from Text

SIN Sep 22, 2023 0 26

Generative AI algorithms use probability to create visuals from noise

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