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River Thames was pumped full of oxygen in 2022 to prevent fish deaths

River Thames was pumped full of oxygen in 2022 to preve...

SIN Jun 23, 2023 0 4

Falling oxygen levels caused by sewage and hot weather saw a specialised boat de...

Cormac McCarthy's Work Is Rooted in Science

Cormac McCarthy's Work Is Rooted in Science

SIN Jun 23, 2023 0 27

Cormac McCarthy’s curiosity about science made him a great writer

Where Are the Worst Bridges in the U.S.?

Where Are the Worst Bridges in the U.S.?

SIN Jun 23, 2023 0 17

More than 42,000 highway bridges across the country are in “poor” condition, acc...

Endangered butterflies are being sold for high prices on eBay

Endangered butterflies are being sold for high prices o...

SIN Jun 23, 2023 0 5

More than 50,000 dead butterflies were traded on eBay in a one-year period, incl...

Odd gamma ray burst may be from a smash-up between two dead stars

Odd gamma ray burst may be from a smash-up between two ...

SIN Jun 23, 2023 0 31

Astronomers have found a blast of gamma rays from space that seems to have been ...

NASA Awards Contract for Earth Radar Data Operations, Management

NASA Awards Contract for Earth Radar Data Operations, M...

SIN Jun 23, 2023 0 2

NASA has awarded a contract to the University of Alaska at Fairbanks, Alaska, fo...

The World Rallied to Find Missing Titan Sub but Ignored Shipwrecked Migrants

The World Rallied to Find Missing Titan Sub but Ignored...

SIN Jun 23, 2023 0 23

The massive search for a missing submersible was a stark contrast to the treatme...

Clever design makes sticky tape that's strong but easily removed

Clever design makes sticky tape that's strong but easil...

SIN Jun 23, 2023 0 28

A ‘shocklingly simple’ design based on kirigami, the Japanese art of paper cutti...

Gas Stoves Emit More of the Carcinogen Benzene Than Expected

Gas Stoves Emit More of the Carcinogen Benzene Than Exp...

SIN Jun 22, 2023 0 4

Stanford University researchers found high levels of the carcinogen benzene in C...

Strange Giant Filaments Reveal a Mystery at the Milky Way's Heart

Strange Giant Filaments Reveal a Mystery at the Milky W...

SIN Jun 22, 2023 0 22

Astrophysicist Farhad Yusef-Zadeh has spent decades peering into the center of t...

A Common Diabetes Drug May Prevent Long COVID in Some People

A Common Diabetes Drug May Prevent Long COVID in Some P...

SIN Jun 22, 2023 0 3

The drug metformin cut long COVID risk by 41 percent in both people who were ove...

NASA to Host X-57 Maxwell Project Update

NASA to Host X-57 Maxwell Project Update

SIN Jun 22, 2023 0 3

NASA will hold a media teleconference to discuss its X-57 Maxwell all-electric a...

What Safety Features Should Subs like the Titan Be Equipped With?

What Safety Features Should Subs like the Titan Be Equi...

SIN Jun 22, 2023 0 4

With the Titan vessel's fate yet to be determined, an expert explains the safety...

The First Person to be Diagnosed with Autism Has Died at 89

The First Person to be Diagnosed with Autism Has Died a...

SIN Jun 22, 2023 0 3

A 1943 paper highlighted a “Donald T”—Case 1 of 11 children with “autistic distu...

The massive problem of trying to fully explain what mass actually is

The massive problem of trying to fully explain what mas...

SIN Jun 22, 2023 0 23

I can take it as a given that people have an intuition for the meaning of mass, ...

To Find Life in the Universe, Find the Computation

To Find Life in the Universe, Find the Computation

SIN Jun 22, 2023 0 22

The discovery that life on Earth looks a lot like information propagating itself...

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