Robotics

Why measles is spreading again, how hackers are targeting freezers, and whether cats fart

Why measles is spreading again, how hackers are targeti...

SIN Nov 9, 2026 0 4

One story asks whether cats fart. The others are a lot less funny

Bursts of ‘pink noise’ during sleep could help your brain clean itself

Bursts of ‘pink noise’ during sleep could help your bra...

SIN Nov 9, 2026 0 3

Triggering a flow of the brain’s cleaning fluid could lead to better sleep—and m...

Acorns—not deer—can predict a rise in Lyme-spreading ticks

Acorns—not deer—can predict a rise in Lyme-spreading ticks

SIN Nov 8, 2026 0 11

Despite deer’s essential role in tick reproduction, looking to acorn numbers ins...

Why do some people hear pitch better than others? Internal noise may be the key

Why do some people hear pitch better than others? Inter...

SIN Nov 8, 2026 0 9

The less internal noise you have, the more reliably you can tell similar sounds ...

NASA reveals new lunar rover, PROMISE, to launch to moon in 2028

NASA reveals new lunar rover, PROMISE, to launch to moo...

SIN Nov 8, 2026 0 12

At a press event on Saturday, the agency’s officials stressed that rovers and ot...

The mathematical trick that explains how to find a needle in a haystack

The mathematical trick that explains how to find a need...

SIN Nov 7, 2026 0 17

We asked a statistics expert how difficult it would be to find a needle in a hay...

Nothing can be fully transparent, physicists discover

Nothing can be fully transparent, physicists discover

SIN Nov 7, 2026 0 13

Quantum researchers show how materials inevitably absorb light

Earth's rocks have a missing layer spanning up to a billion years. Scientists finally know what happened to it

Earth's rocks have a missing layer spanning up to a bil...

SIN Nov 7, 2026 0 16

The 'Great Unconformity' has puzzled scientists since its discovery in the 1870s

Math Puzzle: Secret formula

Math Puzzle: Secret formula

SIN Nov 7, 2026 0 16

Can you guess the puzzle writer’s secret formula?

This brain change can make foxes act like pet dogs

This brain change can make foxes act like pet dogs

SIN Nov 7, 2026 0 16

Using data from a 1950s Russian experiment, researchers are getting “to the hear...

This may be the best evidence yet that dinosaur blood can fossilize

This may be the best evidence yet that dinosaur blood c...

SIN Nov 6, 2026 0 14

Imaging and chemical analysis of a 115-million-year-old dinosaur fossil points t...

Kevin Roose says the race to build superintelligence is accelerating

Kevin Roose says the race to build superintelligence is...

SIN Nov 6, 2026 0 21

What happens when a technology becomes more powerful than its creators can fully...

Have astronomers spotted Planet Nine?

Have astronomers spotted Planet Nine?

SIN Nov 6, 2026 0 15

Archived observations appear to show a moving object in the far-distant outer so...

Science advocates react to Democrats’ historic midterm rout: ‘It’s a new day in Washington’

Science advocates react to Democrats’ historic midterm ...

SIN Nov 6, 2026 0 17

Researchers and advocates say they hope the “blue wave” could signal more accoun...

Ancient humans used cannabis in burial rituals 2,800 years ago

Ancient humans used cannabis in burial rituals 2,800 ye...

SIN Nov 6, 2026 0 19

New findings from a Siberian tomb offer the earliest direct evidence for human m...

These are the doctors and scientists elected in the 2026 midterms

These are the doctors and scientists elected in the 202...

SIN Nov 6, 2026 0 19

Learn more about the scientific community coming into office in January

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