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Without AC, Texan Prisons Sentence People to Unsafe Heat

Without AC, Texan Prisons Sentence People to Unsafe Heat

SIN Aug 21, 2024 0 1

Air-conditioning is uncommon for incarcerated people, and the heat index inside ...

Poem: ‘Rocket Launch Laconic’

Poem: ‘Rocket Launch Laconic’

SIN Aug 21, 2024 0 2

Science in meter and verse

How Does a Bioluminescent Petunia Glow?

How Does a Bioluminescent Petunia Glow?

SIN Aug 21, 2024 0 3

A bioluminescent petunia led me to a world of radiant mushrooms, 19th century ex...

John McFall Is Breaking Barriers as the World’s First Parastronaut

John McFall Is Breaking Barriers as the World’s First P...

SIN Aug 21, 2024 0 2

Paralympian and surgeon John McFall is redefining the astronaut image and provin...

Next-Generation Biotech Is Rendering Some Lab Animals Obsolete

Next-Generation Biotech Is Rendering Some Lab Animals O...

SIN Aug 21, 2024 0 1

Replacing research animals with tools that better mimic human biology could impr...

Voting Is Just the Beginning

Voting Is Just the Beginning

SIN Aug 20, 2024 0 1

Your vote matters. But so does your involvement in civic actions

Review: How Henrietta Leavitt and the ‘Harvard Computers’ Launched Modern Cosmology

Review: How Henrietta Leavitt and the ‘Harvard Computer...

SIN Aug 20, 2024 0 1

A new biography of astronomer Henrietta Leavitt celebrates meaning making in sci...

September 2024: Science History from 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago

September 2024: Science History from 50, 100 and 150 Ye...

SIN Aug 20, 2024 0 1

Mysterious Mercury; spiders predict the weather

How Did Dinosaurs See, Smell, Hear and Move?

How Did Dinosaurs See, Smell, Hear and Move?

SIN Aug 20, 2024 0 5

New fossils and analytical tools provide unprecedented insights into dinosaur se...

Do Space and Time Follow Quantum Rules? These Mind-Bending Experiments Aim to Find Out

Do Space and Time Follow Quantum Rules? These Mind-Bend...

SIN Aug 20, 2024 0 12

Proposed experiments will search for signs that spacetime is quantum and can exi...

Many Older People Maintain and Even Gain Cognitive Skills

Many Older People Maintain and Even Gain Cognitive Skills

SIN Aug 20, 2024 0 1

Contrary to stereotypes of the doddering elderly, research shows that half of pe...

Review: In Toward Eternity, People Merge with AI but Cling to Music and Poetry

Review: In Toward Eternity, People Merge with AI but Cl...

SIN Aug 20, 2024 0 1

A sweeping novel about a war-torn future explores personhood and identity

Review: ‘Third-Ear Listening’ Is the Secret to Perceiving the World

Review: ‘Third-Ear Listening’ Is the Secret to Perceivi...

SIN Aug 20, 2024 0 1

A new book about the art and science of listening explores our sonic universe

Find the Next Digits in the Sequence in This Math Puzzle

Find the Next Digits in the Sequence in This Math Puzzle

SIN Aug 20, 2024 0 1

Can you find the pattern behind this progression of digits?

Readers Respond to the April 2024 Issue

Readers Respond to the April 2024 Issue

SIN Aug 20, 2024 0 1

Letters to the editors for the April 2024 issue of Scientific American

Watch the Blue Supermoon Rise Tonight

Watch the Blue Supermoon Rise Tonight

SIN Aug 20, 2024 0 1

August’s supermoon will be the first of four supermoons in a row

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