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NASA Goddard’s shrinking workforce could stifle future space missions, experts say

NASA Goddard’s shrinking workforce could stifle future ...

SIN Sep 22, 2026 0 20

2025 was a brutal year of budget cuts and workforce attrition at NASA’s Goddard ...

Mathematicians use AI to find mysterious symmetries, solving decades-old problem

Mathematicians use AI to find mysterious symmetries, so...

SIN Sep 22, 2026 0 26

In parallel, a race by amateurs and mathematicians has found all 25,000 cases of...

What a Trump order to put political appointees in charge of NIH funding would mean for science

What a Trump order to put political appointees in charg...

SIN Sep 22, 2026 0 23

Advocates and scientists warn that giving political appointees power over resear...

Did OpenAI solve the wrong Navier-Stokes problem?

Did OpenAI solve the wrong Navier-Stokes problem?

SIN Sep 22, 2026 0 30

OpenAI’s proof seems eligible for a $1-million prize—but only by using a controv...

COVID cases are on the rise—here’s how to stay healthy this winter

COVID cases are on the rise—here’s how to stay healthy ...

SIN Sep 21, 2026 0 23

The virus is currently most prevalent in California and the southern U.S., but e...

9 ‘boundaries’ keep Earth livable. We’ve breached 7 of them

9 ‘boundaries’ keep Earth livable. We’ve breached 7 of ...

SIN Sep 21, 2026 0 24

Earth’s annual checkup shows that we’re at increasing risk of moving away from t...

Space weapons, AI safety concerns and the EPA’s rollback of power plant emission rules

Space weapons, AI safety concerns and the EPA’s rollbac...

SIN Sep 21, 2026 0 27

From orbital weapons to AI risks and weaker emissions rules

Why human language may be intertwined with fire

Why human language may be intertwined with fire

SIN Sep 20, 2026 0 27

Understanding how human language evolved is one of the hardest problems in scien...

Could brain-inspired computers run on the same amount of power as a human brain?

Could brain-inspired computers run on the same amount o...

SIN Sep 19, 2026 0 23

The human brain uses about the same amount of wattage as a lightbulb

Surviving the summer

Surviving the summer

SIN Sep 19, 2026 0 24

Editor in Chief Nancy Shute discusses existential threats to humankind: extreme ...

What does OpenAI’s blockbuster mathematics proof mean for the real world?

What does OpenAI’s blockbuster mathematics proof mean f...

SIN Sep 19, 2026 0 24

OpenAI’s claimed proof of the Navier-Stokes problem is a mathematical tour de fo...

Why AI is speeding up scientific research but not lab experiments

Why AI is speeding up scientific research but not lab e...

SIN Sep 19, 2026 0 25

A new report from Google, Google DeepMind and M.I.T. finds that researchers are ...

What changing ‘Lake Ontario’ to ‘Lake America’ means for weather forecasts

What changing ‘Lake Ontario’ to ‘Lake America’ means fo...

SIN Sep 19, 2026 0 24

The National Weather Service is speeding ahead with changing the name of the Gre...

This dolphin terrifies fish until they puke—and then eats it

This dolphin terrifies fish until they puke—and then ea...

SIN Sep 19, 2026 0 24

Don’t have the energy to catch your own meal? This dolphin has a gross solution

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Telescope glimpses its first cosmic light

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Telescope glimpses its first c...

SIN Sep 19, 2026 0 25

The space telescope is set to reveal thousands of new exoplanets and scour the u...

This ‘anti-vampiric’ grave used two strategies to stop the undead

This ‘anti-vampiric’ grave used two strategies to stop ...

SIN Sep 18, 2026 0 31

A sickle across the throat and a padlock on the toe were likely meant to keep th...

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