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Why Extreme Heat Is So Deadly

Why Extreme Heat Is So Deadly

SIN Jul 6, 2023 0 26

Summer heat is increasingly breaking records as the climate warms. As we describ...

We Need to Widen the 'Habitable Zones' Seen around Alien Stars

We Need to Widen the 'Habitable Zones' Seen around Alie...

SIN Jul 6, 2023 0 2

When looking for life in space, we should broaden our horizons

The Supreme Court's Affirmative Action Decision Harms Science, Education and Health

The Supreme Court's Affirmative Action Decision Harms S...

SIN Jul 6, 2023 0 2

The Supreme Court’s actions on affirmative action are a setback to justice and e...

How Smart Were Dinosaurs? New Studies Fuel the Debate

How Smart Were Dinosaurs? New Studies Fuel the Debate

SIN Jul 6, 2023 0 2

Discussions of dinosaur brainpower spark larger questions around the nature of i...

We must address a key obstacle to our new age of space exploration

We must address a key obstacle to our new age of space ...

SIN Jul 6, 2023 0 5

Advances in rocket technology are exciting, but we need to investigate how non-t...

Crows can understand probability like primates do

Crows can understand probability like primates do

SIN Jul 6, 2023 0 22

When given the chance to peck on symbols that carried different probabilities of...

Elephants' Giant Hot Testicles Might Be the Reason They Get Less Cancer

Elephants' Giant Hot Testicles Might Be the Reason They...

SIN Jul 6, 2023 0 3

A scientist claims elephants’ cancer-preventing genes may have evolved to protec...

Quantum lidar could help driverless vehicles spot bright objects

Quantum lidar could help driverless vehicles spot brigh...

SIN Jul 6, 2023 0 5

Driverless cars can use lasers to sense objects, but reflected light from nearby...

Men and women's hands can be distinguished just from their scent

Men and women's hands can be distinguished just from th...

SIN Jul 6, 2023 0 4

Scent compounds released by your hands can be used to determine gender, which ma...

Having an 'overweight' BMI may not lead to an earlier death

Having an 'overweight' BMI may not lead to an earlier d...

SIN Jul 6, 2023 0 4

A large US study has found that being overweight but not obese carried a slightl...

Weather Warning Inequity: Lack of Data Collection Stations Imperils Vulnerable People

Weather Warning Inequity: Lack of Data Collection Stati...

SIN Jul 6, 2023 0 28

Early warning about impending weather disasters is almost impossible across larg...

Beyond Ozempic: New Obesity Drugs Could Be Cheaper and Even More Effective

Beyond Ozempic: New Obesity Drugs Could Be Cheaper and ...

SIN Jul 6, 2023 0 3

Hormone mimics offer advantages even beyond those of the potent weight-loss shot...

How Susceptible Are You to Misinformation? There's a Test You Can Take

How Susceptible Are You to Misinformation? There's a Te...

SIN Jul 6, 2023 0 4

A new misinformation quiz shows that, despite the stereotype, younger Americans ...

Should all mathematical proofs be checked by a computer?

Should all mathematical proofs be checked by a computer?

SIN Jul 6, 2023 0 5

Proofs, the central tenet of mathematics, occasionally have errors in them. Coul...

NASA Invites Media to Next SpaceX Commercial Crew Space Station Launch

NASA Invites Media to Next SpaceX Commercial Crew Space...

SIN Jul 5, 2023 0 3

Media accreditation now is open for the launch of NASA’s seventh rotational miss...

This Seabird Courtship Ritual Is the Romance of the Summer

This Seabird Courtship Ritual Is the Romance of the Summer

SIN Jul 5, 2023 0 2

An adorable seabird courtship ritual shows the meaning of love: fish

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