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How Visually Impaired People Can Experience Solar Eclipses

How Visually Impaired People Can Experience Solar Eclipses

SIN Mar 27, 2024 0 32

Scientists have created a guide to the 2024 total solar eclipse for the visually...

Solar Eclipse Experiment Will Fly a Kite to Avoid Cloudy Skies

Solar Eclipse Experiment Will Fly a Kite to Avoid Cloud...

SIN Mar 27, 2024 0 28

A kite-borne experiment will observe the sun’s mysterious corona during the upco...

Viral Genetics Confirms What On-the-Ground Activists Knew Early in the Mpox Outbreak

Viral Genetics Confirms What On-the-Ground Activists Kn...

SIN Mar 27, 2024 0 31

Molecular biology could have changed the mpox epidemic—and could stop future out...

How Animal Brains Tell Friends from Strangers

How Animal Brains Tell Friends from Strangers

SIN Mar 27, 2024 0 56

A small section of the mouse brain’s hippocampus uses specific neural codes to d...

Most accurate clock ever can tick for 40 billion years without error

Most accurate clock ever can tick for 40 billion years ...

SIN Mar 27, 2024 0 42

The record for the most accurate clock has been broken in an experiment with str...

New view of our galaxy's black hole reveals a swirling magnetic field

New view of our galaxy's black hole reveals a swirling ...

SIN Mar 27, 2024 0 38

The black hole at the centre of our galaxy, known as Sagittarius A*, has been ca...

Mucus Saves Your Life Every Day

Mucus Saves Your Life Every Day

SIN Mar 27, 2024 0 47

The slimy substance is so powerful that doctors once made hog stomach mucus milk...

AI chatbots are improving at an even faster rate than computer chips

AI chatbots are improving at an even faster rate than c...

SIN Mar 27, 2024 0 37

The large language models behind AI chatbots are developing so rapidly that afte...

Horses used in therapy often avoid people if they are given a choice

Horses used in therapy often avoid people if they are g...

SIN Mar 27, 2024 0 32

Horses show signs of stress if people touch them while they are tethered, but th...

Not getting enough sleep may make you feel years older

Not getting enough sleep may make you feel years older

SIN Mar 27, 2024 0 39

Insufficient sleep seems to result in people feeling older than they are, with a...

Some bamboo toilet paper contains only tiny amounts of bamboo

Some bamboo toilet paper contains only tiny amounts of ...

SIN Mar 27, 2024 0 69

Toilet paper made from bamboo is supposed to be more eco-friendly than tradition...

Orca Groups with Radically Different Cultures Are Actually Separate Species

Orca Groups with Radically Different Cultures Are Actua...

SIN Mar 27, 2024 0 31

“Resident” and “transient” killer whales, or orcas, have unique hunting habits a...

IXPE Operations Update

IXPE Operations Update

SIN Mar 27, 2024 0 24

On March 23, NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) stopped transmitti...

Unexploded bombs from the second world war are getting more dangerous

Unexploded bombs from the second world war are getting ...

SIN Mar 27, 2024 0 43

An explosive found inside many bombs and shells used during the first and second...

Why Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge Collapsed after Strike by Container Ship

Why Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge Collapsed afte...

SIN Mar 27, 2024 0 58

A large container ship “totally removed” a critical pier from Baltimore’s Franci...

7 Books SciAm Recommends So Far in 2024

7 Books SciAm Recommends So Far in 2024

SIN Mar 27, 2024 0 28

Here are seven fiction and nonfiction books we recommend from the past few month...

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