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Carl Zimmer on His New Book Air-Borne and What Public Health Experts Learned from the COVID Pandemic

Carl Zimmer on His New Book Air-Borne and What Public H...

SIN Feb 19, 2025 0 40

Journalist Carl Zimmer chats about aerobiology and his new book Air-Borne: The H...

The Brain Science of Elusive ‘Aha! Moments’

The Brain Science of Elusive ‘Aha! Moments’

SIN Feb 19, 2025 0 54

What happens in your mind when insight strikes?

Trump’s ‘Iron Dome’ Space Weapons Plan Ignores Physics and Fiscal Reality

Trump’s ‘Iron Dome’ Space Weapons Plan Ignores Physics ...

SIN Feb 19, 2025 0 48

Proposed U.S. space defenses against hypersonic nuclear missiles are unnecessary...

Electrodes made from bread could replace metal conductors

Electrodes made from bread could replace metal conductors

SIN Feb 19, 2025 0 49

Wholemeal bread can be shaped into carbon electrodes that could replace traditio...

Slowdown of critical ocean current may preserve the Amazon rainforest

Slowdown of critical ocean current may preserve the Ama...

SIN Feb 19, 2025 0 50

The weakening of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation could be bolste...

How both your genes and lifestyle alter risk of age-related diseases

How both your genes and lifestyle alter risk of age-rel...

SIN Feb 19, 2025 0 56

The largest study of its kind has revealed how both genetics and lifestyle play ...

Dark algae could accelerate melting of Greenland ice sheet

Dark algae could accelerate melting of Greenland ice sheet

SIN Feb 19, 2025 0 68

Pigmented algae are well adapted to grow on exposed ice in the Arctic as the sno...

NASA Selects New Round of Student-Led Aviation Research Awards

NASA Selects New Round of Student-Led Aviation Research...

SIN Feb 19, 2025 0 39

NASA has selected two new university student teams to participate in real-world ...

Science Crossword: Creative Bursts

Science Crossword: Creative Bursts

SIN Feb 19, 2025 0 42

Play this crossword inspired by the March 2025 issue of Scientific American

Exoplanet Census Identifies ‘Missing Planets’ Gap

Exoplanet Census Identifies ‘Missing Planets’ Gap

SIN Feb 19, 2025 0 50

Planet demographics reveal a puzzling lack of worlds in a certain size range thr...

Government Agencies, Universities, Nonprofits Pause Critical Work Over Trump Administration Executive Orders

Government Agencies, Universities, Nonprofits Pause Cri...

SIN Feb 19, 2025 0 55

America's status as a global science leader is in doubt as the administration fr...

Eclipses to Auroras: Eclipse Ambassadors Experience Winter Field School in Alaska

Eclipses to Auroras: Eclipse Ambassadors Experience Win...

SIN Feb 19, 2025 0 50

In 2023 and 2024, two eclipses crossed the United States, and the NASA Science A...

Our Pale Blue Dot

Our Pale Blue Dot

SIN Feb 19, 2025 0 55

Earth is but a tiny light blue dot in this 30th anniversary version of the iconi...

NASA Science: Being Responsive to Executive Orders

NASA Science: Being Responsive to Executive Orders

SIN Feb 19, 2025 0 47

February 18, 2025 To the NASA Science Community – As the nation’s leader in Ear...

Why AI resorts to stereotypes when it is role-playing humans

Why AI resorts to stereotypes when it is role-playing h...

SIN Feb 19, 2025 0 46

The often stereotyped and offensive responses from AI chatbots role-playing as h...

NASA Sets Launch Coverage for Missions Studying Cosmic Origins, Sun

NASA Sets Launch Coverage for Missions Studying Cosmic ...

SIN Feb 19, 2025 0 52

NASA will provide live coverage of prelaunch and launch activities for SPHEREx (...

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