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Trump FEMA Firings Hit Agency Already Suffering Staffing Shortages

Trump FEMA Firings Hit Agency Already Suffering Staffin...

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After firing 200 first-year employees this weekend, FEMA was directed "to make a...

Trump’s DEI Purge Is Hitting NASA Hard

Trump’s DEI Purge Is Hitting NASA Hard

SIN Feb 20, 2025 0 1

Space scientists within NASA and outside it feel betrayed by the Trump administr...

Contributors to Scientific American’s March 2025 Issue

Contributors to Scientific American’s March 2025 Issue

SIN Feb 19, 2025 0 2

Writers, artists, photographers and researchers share the stories behind the sto...

3 More Bird Flu Infections in People as Chicken Deaths Affect Egg Industry

3 More Bird Flu Infections in People as Chicken Deaths ...

SIN Feb 19, 2025 0 3

Bird flu headlines include three new human cases, millions of dead birds in poul...

The Brain Science of Elusive ‘Aha! Moments’

The Brain Science of Elusive ‘Aha! Moments’

SIN Feb 19, 2025 0 2

What happens in your mind when insight strikes?

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 2

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

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 3

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

Exoplanet Census Identifies ‘Missing Planets’ Gap

Exoplanet Census Identifies ‘Missing Planets’ Gap

SIN Feb 19, 2025 0 3

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

Science Crossword: Creative Bursts

Science Crossword: Creative Bursts

SIN Feb 19, 2025 0 3

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

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

Government Agencies, Universities, Nonprofits Pause Cri...

SIN Feb 19, 2025 0 3

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

Which Knot Is Stronger? Humans Aren’t Great Judges

Which Knot Is Stronger? Humans Aren’t Great Judges

SIN Feb 18, 2025 0 3

People are surprisingly bad at guessing knot strength, a study found

Science History from 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago

Science History from 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago

SIN Feb 18, 2025 0 3

Color blindness; the end of fire

World’s Most Accurate Clocks Could Redefine Time

World’s Most Accurate Clocks Could Redefine Time

SIN Feb 18, 2025 0 2

Atomic clocks are more accurate than those used to define the second, suggesting...

Broken Legs and Ankles Heal Better If You Walk on Them within Weeks

Broken Legs and Ankles Heal Better If You Walk on Them ...

SIN Feb 18, 2025 0 3

Using crutches for months is largely a thing of the past. Early weight-bearing h...

The Future of Food May Depend on Crops, Such as Quinoa, That Thrive in Salty Soils

The Future of Food May Depend on Crops, Such as Quinoa,...

SIN Feb 18, 2025 0 1

Halophytes that thrive in increasingly saline soils could help feed people and l...

A Fascinating Sparrow, Aha! Moments and Local Flowers

A Fascinating Sparrow, Aha! Moments and Local Flowers

SIN Feb 18, 2025 0 1

Astronomers search for missing planets, a salty food movement takes hold, and it...

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