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In 2024’s Record-Hottest Year, U.S. Voters Will Decide Climate’s Path Forward

In 2024’s Record-Hottest Year, U.S. Voters Will Decide ...

SIN Oct 31, 2024 0 9

Global temperatures through September point to 2024 besting 2023 as the hottest ...

More Men Are Getting Vasectomies Since Roe Was Overturned

More Men Are Getting Vasectomies Since Roe Was Overturned

SIN Oct 30, 2024 0 6

Recent studies show that the Supreme Court ruling that overturned the national r...

Why Are Close Elections So Common?

Why Are Close Elections So Common?

SIN Oct 30, 2024 0 5

When voters decide between two alternatives, as is effectively the case in the U...

A Bird Flu Vaccine Might Come Too Late to Save Us from H5N1

A Bird Flu Vaccine Might Come Too Late to Save Us from ...

SIN Oct 30, 2024 0 5

If the influenza virus infecting cattle workers starts a pandemic, help in the f...

Exploring the Science of Spookiness at the Recreational Fear Lab

Exploring the Science of Spookiness at the Recreational...

SIN Oct 30, 2024 0 3

Host Rachel Feltman and behavioral scientist Coltan Scrivner explore our fascina...

Fastest Known Planetary System May Have Been Pushed by Our Galaxy’s Supermassive Black Hole

Fastest Known Planetary System May Have Been Pushed by ...

SIN Oct 30, 2024 0 2

This blazingly-fast star is shooting through the Milky Way with a planet in tow

People Overestimate Political Opponents’ Immorality

People Overestimate Political Opponents’ Immorality

SIN Oct 29, 2024 0 3

To heal political division, start with common moral ground, a study suggests

Underwater Temple from ‘Indiana Jones Civilization’ Discovered

Underwater Temple from ‘Indiana Jones Civilization’ Dis...

SIN Oct 29, 2024 0 3

An ancient temple made by Arabian immigrants from the Nabataean culture has fina...

This Sponge Pulls Gold from Electronic Waste

This Sponge Pulls Gold from Electronic Waste

SIN Oct 29, 2024 0 3

A self-building sponge that efficiently collects gold could eliminate some harsh...

Math and Puzzle Fans Find Magic in Martin Gardner’s Legacy

Math and Puzzle Fans Find Magic in Martin Gardner’s Legacy

SIN Oct 29, 2024 0 3

Scientific American columnist Martin Gardner started a long mathematical convers...

How Harris’s Medicare Plan Could Make At-Home Care for Older Adults Easier

How Harris’s Medicare Plan Could Make At-Home Care for ...

SIN Oct 29, 2024 0 4

Harris recently proposed a Medicare plan that would cover at-home health aides a...

We Must Restore Trust in Science in ‘Antiscientific America’

We Must Restore Trust in Science in ‘Antiscientific Ame...

SIN Oct 29, 2024 0 3

Anti-intellectualism is a prevalent and pernicious force in American public life...

New ‘Unconscious’ Therapies Could Help Treat Phobias

New ‘Unconscious’ Therapies Could Help Treat Phobias

SIN Oct 29, 2024 0 2

These therapies dampen fears absent direct exposure—no need to be in the room wi...

Why We All Need a U.N. Study of the Effects of Nuclear War

Why We All Need a U.N. Study of the Effects of Nuclear War

SIN Oct 29, 2024 0 6

A new United Nations expert study of the effects of nuclear war would spur infor...

Wildfires Are Moving Faster and Causing More Damage

Wildfires Are Moving Faster and Causing More Damage

SIN Oct 29, 2024 0 2

A small number of fast-moving wildfires cause almost all the property damage by ...

Plans to Destroy the International Space Station Preview a Bigger Orbital Junk Problem

Plans to Destroy the International Space Station Previe...

SIN Oct 28, 2024 0 2

A special spacecraft will guide the space station through Earth’s atmosphere, bu...

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