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A Background 'Hum' Pervades the Universe. Scientists Are Racing to Find Its Source

A Background 'Hum' Pervades the Universe. Scientists Ar...

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Astronomers are now seeking to pinpoint the origins of an exciting new form of g...

Journalism Is a Public Good and Should Be Publicly Funded

Journalism Is a Public Good and Should Be Publicly Funded

SIN Aug 4, 2023 0 24

U.S. journalism needs to be treated as a “public good” like roads, schools and b...

Largest U.S. Offshore Wind Project Could Produce Power This Year

Largest U.S. Offshore Wind Project Could Produce Power ...

SIN Aug 3, 2023 0 2

Construction has begun on the Vineyard Wind project off the coast of Massachuset...

Euclid Space Telescope Snaps Spectacular First Images

Euclid Space Telescope Snaps Spectacular First Images

SIN Aug 3, 2023 0 3

The European Space Agency's ambitious Euclid space telescope is on its way to de...

Meet the Woman Who Supervised the Computations That Proved an Atomic Bomb Would Work

Meet the Woman Who Supervised the Computations That Pro...

SIN Aug 3, 2023 0 2

Naomi Livesay worked on computations that formed the mathematical basis for impl...

Can You Decode an Alien Message?

Can You Decode an Alien Message?

SIN Aug 3, 2023 0 21

An artist, a programmer and a scientist have created a simulation of extraterres...

What Grand Theft Auto Tells Us about the 'Crisis in Masculinity'

What Grand Theft Auto Tells Us about the 'Crisis in Mas...

SIN Aug 3, 2023 0 24

Breaking down “toxic masculinity” is complicated, especially amid fears of a mas...

California Waves Have Grown a Foot Taller because of Climate Change

California Waves Have Grown a Foot Taller because of Cl...

SIN Aug 3, 2023 0 4

The number of extreme wave events—when crests are taller than 13 feet—have doubl...

Bizarre-Looking Colossus Whale May Have Been Heaviest Animal Ever (Sorry, Blue Whales)

Bizarre-Looking Colossus Whale May Have Been Heaviest A...

SIN Aug 2, 2023 0 3

“I’ve never seen anything like it,” says a paleontologist not involved in the di...

Could Weight-Loss Drugs Curb Addiction? Your Health, Quickly, Episode 12

Could Weight-Loss Drugs Curb Addiction? Your Health, Qu...

SIN Aug 2, 2023 0 3

Drugs such as Wegovy and Ozempic might help people tackle substance abuse as wel...

Social Media Is Rewriting the Banking Playbook

Social Media Is Rewriting the Banking Playbook

SIN Aug 2, 2023 0 1

Our financial systems need to be overhauled to avoid the kind of social-media-fu...

Science, Destroyer of Worlds--And Movie Scripts

Science, Destroyer of Worlds--And Movie Scripts

SIN Aug 2, 2023 0 4

Oppenheimer won’t bomb in the box office, but despite its director’s best effort...

Could Weight Loss Drugs Curb Addiction: Your Health, Quickly, Episode 12

Could Weight Loss Drugs Curb Addiction: Your Health, Qu...

SIN Aug 2, 2023 0 1

Drugs like Wegovy and Ozempic might help people tackle substance abuse as well a...

Yes, AI Models Can Get Worse over Time

Yes, AI Models Can Get Worse over Time

SIN Aug 2, 2023 0 2

More training and more data can have unintended consequences for machine-learnin...

'Virgin Birth' Engineered into Female Animals for First Time

'Virgin Birth' Engineered into Female Animals for First...

SIN Aug 2, 2023 0 1

Scientists altered the genomes of female fruit flies, allowing them to reproduce...

A Sun Shield over Earth? Catch an Asteroid, and It Might Work

A Sun Shield over Earth? Catch an Asteroid, and It Migh...

SIN Aug 1, 2023 0 2

A resurfaced idea for solar geoengineering imagines a sunlight-blocking space sh...

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