Robotics

Remembering Margarethe Hilferding, the First Woman Admitted to Freud’s Vienna Psychoanalytic Society

Remembering Margarethe Hilferding, the First Woman Admi...

SIN Jan 24, 2025 0 5

Margarethe Hilferding was the first woman admitted to Sigmund Freud’s Vienna Psy...

The Neuroscience of Severance: What’s Real? What’s Fake?

The Neuroscience of Severance: What’s Real? What’s Fake?

SIN Jan 24, 2025 0 4

The hit show Severance can be refashioned as a teaching moment about certain bra...

How Sports Betting Apps Use Psychology to Keep Users Gambling

How Sports Betting Apps Use Psychology to Keep Users Ga...

SIN Jan 24, 2025 0 5

Mobile sports betting apps’ frictionless designs, personalized notifications and...

Do Chatbots Just Need More Time to ‘Think’?

Do Chatbots Just Need More Time to ‘Think’?

SIN Jan 24, 2025 0 7

A technique called “test-time compute” can improve how AI responds to some hard ...

Trump’s Revocation of Environmental Justice Order Will Hurt Marginalized Communities

Trump’s Revocation of Environmental Justice Order Will ...

SIN Jan 24, 2025 0 3

President Trump has revoked a 1994 directive that required agencies to protect m...

The Latest on Bird Flu in Humans, Cats and Chickens

The Latest on Bird Flu in Humans, Cats and Chickens

SIN Jan 24, 2025 0 3

H5N1 avian influenza continues to spread amid commercial and backyard poultry, a...

My Climate Protest Arrest Shows the Problem with ‘Social Tipping Point’ Theory

My Climate Protest Arrest Shows the Problem with ‘Socia...

SIN Jan 23, 2025 0 6

People hoping that progress on climate action will accelerate like sudden change...

Are Cats Actually Liquid?

Are Cats Actually Liquid?

SIN Jan 23, 2025 0 4

A physicist weighs in on the fluid feline meme

Why Grapefruit Interferes with Medication, and What to Do about It

Why Grapefruit Interferes with Medication, and What to ...

SIN Jan 23, 2025 0 4

Could gene editing produce a tasty citrus fruit that doesn’t interfere with pres...

What Trump’s Executive Orders Mean for Science

What Trump’s Executive Orders Mean for Science

SIN Jan 23, 2025 0 5

After his second inauguration, President Donald Trump signed a host of executive...

Here’s What’s in ‘Stargate,’ the $500-Billion Trump-Endorsed Plan to Power U.S. AI

Here’s What’s in ‘Stargate,’ the $500-Billion Trump-End...

SIN Jan 23, 2025 0 7

Tech giants are backing a massive effort, announced by President Trump and dubbe...

Rare, Record Florida Snow Explained

Rare, Record Florida Snow Explained

SIN Jan 23, 2025 0 5

A perfect confluence of an Arctic air outbreak and a low-pressure system that pu...

Earth Sings with Mysterious Chorus Waves—and Deep Space Does, Too

Earth Sings with Mysterious Chorus Waves—and Deep Space...

SIN Jan 22, 2025 0 9

Peculiar bursts of energy called chorus waves have been detected in deep space f...

Scientific American’s 10 Most Anticipated ‘Microhistories’ Coming Out in 2025

Scientific American’s 10 Most Anticipated ‘Microhistori...

SIN Jan 22, 2025 0 5

Scientific American's Brianne Kane can't wait to check out these fascinating dee...

Our Ears Share a Common Ancestry with Fish Gills

Our Ears Share a Common Ancestry with Fish Gills

SIN Jan 22, 2025 0 3

The genes that build the cartilage of fish gills were repurposed to build the ca...

Modi’s Government Aims to Trample India’s History

SIN Jan 22, 2025 0 3

Hindu nationalists are committed to turning India into a Hindu nation-state. The...

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