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Ancient ‘Age of Dinosaurs’ Seafloor Found beneath Pacific Ocean

Ancient ‘Age of Dinosaurs’ Seafloor Found beneath Pacif...

SIN Oct 17, 2024 0 31

A vast, ancient slab of seafloor plunged beneath the Pacific Ocean and has hover...

You Don’t Need Words to Think

You Don’t Need Words to Think

SIN Oct 17, 2024 0 19

Brain studies show that language is not essential for the cognitive processes th...

Biden’s Withdrawal Made Containing War in the Middle East Harder

Biden’s Withdrawal Made Containing War in the Middle Ea...

SIN Oct 17, 2024 0 21

As tensions soar in the Middle East, the president’s lame duck status hinders ef...

Hurricane Helene Damage Strains Dialysis Care Nationwide

Hurricane Helene Damage Strains Dialysis Care Nationwide

SIN Oct 17, 2024 0 22

Hurricane Helene devastated a North Carolina facility that produces peritoneal d...

Numbers Are Persuasive—If Used in Moderation

Numbers Are Persuasive—If Used in Moderation

SIN Oct 16, 2024 0 20

Despite high levels of innumeracy and math anxiety, people often appreciate nume...

Flying Conservationists Teach Endangered Birds to Migrate

Flying Conservationists Teach Endangered Birds to Migrate

SIN Oct 16, 2024 0 18

Inspired by a classic movie, conservationists are teaching endangered Northern B...

Climate Change Action Depends on the 2024 Election

Climate Change Action Depends on the 2024 Election

SIN Oct 16, 2024 0 25

Harris would continue the Biden administration’s landmark climate efforts; Trump...

How Implicit Bias Affects Your Medical Care

How Implicit Bias Affects Your Medical Care

SIN Oct 16, 2024 0 28

How do you stop implicit bias from getting in the way of better health? This doc...

Leap Seconds May Be Abandoned by the World’s Timekeepers

Leap Seconds May Be Abandoned by the World’s Timekeepers

SIN Oct 16, 2024 0 26

We have been adding “leap seconds” to time kept by our atomic clocks, but soon w...

SpaceX Catches a Falling Starship—a First in Spaceflight History

SpaceX Catches a Falling Starship—a First in Spacefligh...

SIN Oct 16, 2024 0 24

SpaceX’s fifth Starship flight test concluded with mechanical arms snatching the...

Climate-Fueled Disasters Are Raising Insurance Rates

Climate-Fueled Disasters Are Raising Insurance Rates

SIN Oct 16, 2024 0 27

Increasingly intense hurricanes, wildfires and other climate disasters have forc...

Smart Tech Would Make Your Office Building Greener

Smart Tech Would Make Your Office Building Greener

SIN Oct 16, 2024 0 24

Implementing smart technologies like demand-controlled ventilation could reduce ...

November 2024: Science History from 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago

November 2024: Science History from 50, 100 and 150 Yea...

SIN Oct 16, 2024 0 20

Computer chess champ; dental chloroform killer

Math Puzzle: Play Architect with These Houses of Cards

Math Puzzle: Play Architect with These Houses of Cards

SIN Oct 15, 2024 0 18

Can this house of cards be built?

Book Review: Fifty years later, Ursula K. Le Guin’s Novel about Utopian Anarchists Is as Relevant as Ever

Book Review: Fifty years later, Ursula K. Le Guin’s Nov...

SIN Oct 15, 2024 0 15

In The Dispossessed, a physicist is caught between societies

Lucy Turns 50, and Dark Energy Gets More Mysterious

Lucy Turns 50, and Dark Energy Gets More Mysterious

SIN Oct 15, 2024 0 15

What works to improve health equity? And it might be time to end the leap second

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