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Mathematicians Solve Infamous ‘Moving Sofa Problem’

Mathematicians Solve Infamous ‘Moving Sofa Problem’

SIN Feb 5, 2025 0 57

What’s the largest couch that can turn a corner? After 58 years, we finally know

Inside the NSF’s Effort to Scour Research Grants for Violations of Trump’s Orders

Inside the NSF’s Effort to Scour Research Grants for Vi...

SIN Feb 5, 2025 0 26

The U.S. National Science Foundation has unfrozen grant funding, but it continue...

Trump EPA Spending Freeze Continues despite Court Orders

Trump EPA Spending Freeze Continues despite Court Orders

SIN Feb 4, 2025 0 41

Two judges have ordered the Trump administration to lift a freeze on spending, i...

How Bad Are COVID, Flu and RSV This Winter?

How Bad Are COVID, Flu and RSV This Winter?

SIN Feb 4, 2025 0 35

COVID levels may have peaked but flu is still high; RSV is on the way out

Bonobos Can Tell When a Human Doesn’t Know Something

Bonobos Can Tell When a Human Doesn’t Know Something

SIN Feb 4, 2025 0 24

An experiment shows that bonobos can understand when a human lacks knowledge and...

Bonobos Can Tell When a Human Doesn't Know Something

Bonobos Can Tell When a Human Doesn't Know Something

SIN Feb 4, 2025 0 18

An experiment shows that bonobos can understand when a human lacks knowledge and...

Trump Tariffs’ Potential Clean Energy Effects Explained

Trump Tariffs’ Potential Clean Energy Effects Explained

SIN Feb 4, 2025 0 31

President Trump’s new tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China could hit the electric...

The Link between Cannabis and Psychosis in Teens Is Real

The Link between Cannabis and Psychosis in Teens Is Real

SIN Feb 3, 2025 0 22

Teens have access to vastly more potent cannabis than their parents had at their...

Nearby Habitable-Zone Exoplanet May Be a World of Fire and Ice

Nearby Habitable-Zone Exoplanet May Be a World of Fire ...

SIN Feb 3, 2025 0 28

A newly confirmed exoplanet around a nearby sunlike star might be astronomers’ b...

Here’s How Quickly Polio Could Return to the U.S. without Vaccines

Here’s How Quickly Polio Could Return to the U.S. witho...

SIN Feb 3, 2025 0 33

Polio, a disease that can cause lifelong paralysis, has been eliminated from the...

H5N9 in Poultry, Tuberculosis Outbreak in Kansas and RFK, Jr.’s Confirmation Hearings

H5N9 in Poultry, Tuberculosis Outbreak in Kansas and RF...

SIN Feb 3, 2025 0 22

In this week’s roundup, catch up on the spread of bird flu in the U.S., a tuberc...

What Is Journavx, the New Opioid-Free Painkiller from Vertex?

What Is Journavx, the New Opioid-Free Painkiller from V...

SIN Feb 3, 2025 0 29

The nonaddictive painkiller suzetrigine (Journavx) is as effective for acute pai...

Will Asteroid 2024 YR4 Strike Earth in 2032?

Will Asteroid 2024 YR4 Strike Earth in 2032?

SIN Feb 3, 2025 0 23

The possibility of the asteroid 2024 YR4 impacting our planet might not be ruled...

Will Asteroid 2024 YR24 Strike Earth in 2032?

Will Asteroid 2024 YR24 Strike Earth in 2032?

SIN Feb 1, 2025 0 37

The possibility of the asteroid 2024 YR24 impacting our planet might not be rule...

Who Is Trump’s Acting FAA Chief, Chris Rocheleau?

Who Is Trump’s Acting FAA Chief, Chris Rocheleau?

SIN Jan 31, 2025 0 31

Chris Rocheleau, Trump’s pick for acting head of the Federal Aviation Administra...

AI’s Energy Demands Threaten a Nuclear Waste Nightmare

AI’s Energy Demands Threaten a Nuclear Waste Nightmare

SIN Jan 31, 2025 0 21

Reviving nuclear power plants to power AI threatens an avalanche of nuclear waste

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