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Large Herbivores Can Help Prevent Massive Wildfires

Large Herbivores Can Help Prevent Massive Wildfires

SIN Sep 9, 2023 0 18

Reintroducing large herbivores into fire-prone areas can help combat the global ...

Heat Waves May Be Slow, but They Are Just as Destructive as Faster Disasters

Heat Waves May Be Slow, but They Are Just as Destructiv...

SIN Sep 9, 2023 0 17

After weeks at 100 degrees F, the drought and heat wave in Texas are taking thei...

Trying to Train Your Brain Faster? Knowing This Might Help With That

Trying to Train Your Brain Faster? Knowing This Might H...

SIN Sep 9, 2023 0 27

Are you working really hard to learn something? Remember this counterintuitive f...

How Hurricanes Jova and Lee Rapidly Exploded into Category 5 Storms

How Hurricanes Jova and Lee Rapidly Exploded into Categ...

SIN Sep 9, 2023 0 27

Within days of each other, Hurricane Jova in the Pacific and Hurricane Lee in th...

'Weird' Dinosaur Prompts Rethink of Bird Evolution

'Weird' Dinosaur Prompts Rethink of Bird Evolution

SIN Sep 8, 2023 0 4

A newly described fossil is as old as the “first bird,” Archaeopteryx, and repre...

What Does It 'Feel' Like to Be a Chatbot?

What Does It 'Feel' Like to Be a Chatbot?

SIN Sep 8, 2023 0 16

Generative AI has made giant strides toward machine intelligence. Can machine co...

Carbon in the Oceans Is Altering the Micro-Fabric of Life

Carbon in the Oceans Is Altering the Micro-Fabric of Life

SIN Sep 8, 2023 0 23

Humans are feeding the invisible world of ocean microbes a punishing diet of pol...

The Science of Shooting Stars

The Science of Shooting Stars

SIN Sep 8, 2023 0 1

Earth is bombarded by millions of bits of cosmic debris every day. Here’s how to...

'Robo-Taxi Takeover' Hits Speed Bumps

'Robo-Taxi Takeover' Hits Speed Bumps

SIN Sep 8, 2023 0 1

Self-driving cars are expanding their ranges in a handful of U.S. cities, but th...

Nearly 500 Neighborhoods Prone to Climate Disasters Will Get Extra Money for Resilience

Nearly 500 Neighborhoods Prone to Climate Disasters Wil...

SIN Sep 8, 2023 0 19

U.S. census tracts with high exposure to climate impacts will get extra federal ...

Half the World's Population Faced Extreme Heat for at Least 30 Days This Summer

Half the World's Population Faced Extreme Heat for at L...

SIN Sep 7, 2023 0 3

Nearly every person on the planet saw high temperatures that were made at least ...

She Cracked the Mystery of How to Split the Atom, but Someone Else Got the Nobel Prize for the Discovery

She Cracked the Mystery of How to Split the Atom, but S...

SIN Sep 7, 2023 0 28

Lise Meitner, an Austrian-born Jewish physicist, never received the Nobel Prize ...

What This Graph of a Dinosaur Can Teach Us about Doing Better Science

What This Graph of a Dinosaur Can Teach Us about Doing ...

SIN Sep 7, 2023 0 4

Anscombe’s quartet and the datasaurus dozen demonstrate the importance of visual...

Watch a Comet's Tail Get Mangled by the Sun

Watch a Comet's Tail Get Mangled by the Sun

SIN Sep 7, 2023 0 2

Discovered only last month, Comet Nishimura is drawing attention before close ap...

Algorithms Are Making Important Decisions. What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

Algorithms Are Making Important Decisions. What Could P...

SIN Sep 7, 2023 0 4

Seemingly trivial differences in training data can skew the judgments of AI prog...

Why Do Cats Knead Like They're Making Biscuits?

Why Do Cats Knead Like They're Making Biscuits?

SIN Sep 7, 2023 0 2

Often nicknamed “making biscuits,” kneading is a good sign that your cat is happ...

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