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SpaceX launches Starship on successful test flight

SpaceX launches Starship on successful test flight

SIN Jul 25, 2026 0 21

Starship demonstrated key abilities on its path to becoming a fully reusable tra...

Fungus-made fashion—researchers turn living organisms into textiles

Fungus-made fashion—researchers turn living organisms i...

SIN Jul 25, 2026 0 11

This biodegradable textile is alive and can host engineered microbes that can ch...

NHTSA considers new car door safety rules after fatal Tesla crashes

NHTSA considers new car door safety rules after fatal T...

SIN Jul 25, 2026 0 20

After fatal crashes in which occupants or rescuers could not open Tesla doors, f...

When will the cyclosporiasis outbreaks end?

When will the cyclosporiasis outbreaks end?

SIN Jul 25, 2026 0 20

Thousands of people have gotten sick from cyclospora. Experts can’t agree whethe...

Europe's heat waves are killing thousands—and wringing its soils dry

Europe's heat waves are killing thousands—and wringing ...

SIN Jul 25, 2026 0 22

The European continent is facing a dual reckoning this summer—extreme heat is ki...

What’s to blame for Canada’s wildfires?

What’s to blame for Canada’s wildfires?

SIN Jul 24, 2026 0 19

The inferno that sent toxic smoke billowing toward the United States won't be th...

How a 99-year-old mathematician unraveled a century-old braid mystery

How a 99-year-old mathematician unraveled a century-old...

SIN Jul 24, 2026 0 19

Joan Birman popularized the Burau representation problem decades ago. Now she an...

How lost shipping containers helped map the world’s ocean currents

How lost shipping containers helped map the world’s oce...

SIN Jul 24, 2026 0 19

Thousands of shipping containers vanish every year—what becomes of them?

Sunlight benefits and risks: what science says about healthy sun exposure

Sunlight benefits and risks: what science says about he...

SIN Jul 24, 2026 0 23

Could sunlight actually improve your health? New research suggests we may need t...

The Rubin Observatory’s greatest legacy will be this ‘movie’ of the sky

The Rubin Observatory’s greatest legacy will be this ‘m...

SIN Jul 24, 2026 0 21

Using the new Vera C. Rubin Observatory, astronomers are beginning the largest a...

Is it possible to regain a sense of smell? These scientists are working on it

Is it possible to regain a sense of smell? These scient...

SIN Jul 24, 2026 0 21

Smell is one of the most complex and least understood senses

Ancient geology could insulate Iran's nuclear centrifuges under Pickaxe Mountain from bombing

Ancient geology could insulate Iran's nuclear centrifug...

SIN Jul 24, 2026 0 23

Iran’s Pickaxe Mountain, or Kuh-e Kolang Gaz La in Persian, is part of a volcani...

Why environmental groups are suing over SpaceX’s land swap deal

Why environmental groups are suing over SpaceX’s land s...

SIN Jul 24, 2026 0 23

If approved, this deal would give SpaceX hundreds of acres that are currently pa...

Why don’t insects live in the ocean?

Why don’t insects live in the ocean?

SIN Jul 24, 2026 0 22

Nobody knows why insects aren't found living in the ocean. Scientists just elimi...

Tansplanted testicular tissue grew sperm in an infertile patient

Tansplanted testicular tissue grew sperm in an infertil...

SIN Jul 24, 2026 0 18

The history of testicular transplants is long and often sordid, but this success...

China’s Kimi K3 and the rise of open-weight AI models

China’s Kimi K3 and the rise of open-weight AI models

SIN Jul 24, 2026 0 17

Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 shows how opening a model to outsiders can turn other comp...

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