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How Many Dinosaur Species Roamed Earth? It’s Surprisingly Hard to Know

How Many Dinosaur Species Roamed Earth? It’s Surprising...

SIN Sep 24, 2024 0 20

The incompleteness of the fossil record complicates efforts to figure out how li...

Dark Matter Black Holes Could Fly through the Solar System Once a Decade

Dark Matter Black Holes Could Fly through the Solar Sys...

SIN Sep 24, 2024 0 37

The universe’s hidden mass may be made of black holes, which could wobble the pl...

Stunning Bird Photographs Showcase Incredible Views of Life on the Wing

Stunning Bird Photographs Showcase Incredible Views of ...

SIN Sep 24, 2024 0 29

Quirky perspectives, separated lovebirds and a tobogganing penguin star in 2024 ...

Uterus Transplants, Once Highly Experimental, Have Led to Dozens of Births

Uterus Transplants, Once Highly Experimental, Have Led ...

SIN Sep 23, 2024 0 20

Uterus transplants are becoming more common, opening up the possibility of pregn...

Meet the New Autocrats Who Dismantle Democracies from Within

Meet the New Autocrats Who Dismantle Democracies from W...

SIN Sep 23, 2024 0 24

The new interconnected breed of autocrats gains and retains power by deception, ...

Cave Fish Adolescence Means Sprouting Taste Buds in Weird Places

Cave Fish Adolescence Means Sprouting Taste Buds in Wei...

SIN Sep 23, 2024 0 20

Cave fish develop taste buds on their heads and chins—and even in humans, taste ...

How Pregnancy Changes the Brain, and How Lizards Make DIY Scuba Gear

How Pregnancy Changes the Brain, and How Lizards Make D...

SIN Sep 23, 2024 0 19

This week’s news roundup explores how the brain is affected by pregnancy, the wa...

Moral Judgments May Shift with the Seasons

Moral Judgments May Shift with the Seasons

SIN Sep 20, 2024 0 24

Certain values carry more weight in spring and autumn than in summer and winter

Why Do So Many Tiny Asteroids Have Moons?

Why Do So Many Tiny Asteroids Have Moons?

SIN Sep 20, 2024 0 22

Scientists are putting a new spin on the creation of binary asteroids

Discover Math’s Elegance and Power with Drag Queen Kyne Santos

Discover Math’s Elegance and Power with Drag Queen Kyne...

SIN Sep 20, 2024 0 25

Mathematics communicator and drag queen Kyne will help you discover the beauty a...

Obesity-Drug Pioneers Win Prestigious Lasker Award for Medical Science

Obesity-Drug Pioneers Win Prestigious Lasker Award for ...

SIN Sep 20, 2024 0 23

Three scientists are honored for developing a class of blockbuster weight-loss d...

Ultra-Precise Particle Measurement Narrows Pathway to ‘New Physics’

Ultra-Precise Particle Measurement Narrows Pathway to ‘...

SIN Sep 19, 2024 0 24

A long-awaited calculation of the W boson’s mass agrees with theory, contradicti...

Was Thalidomide Safe? Frances Oldham Kelsey Was Not Convinced

Was Thalidomide Safe? Frances Oldham Kelsey Was Not Con...

SIN Sep 19, 2024 0 22

In the U.S. in the early 1960s the distributor of a thalidomide drug was impatie...

This Elegant Math Problem Could Help You Make the Best Choice in House-Hunting and Even Love

This Elegant Math Problem Could Help You Make the Best ...

SIN Sep 19, 2024 0 20

Math’s “best-choice problem” could help humans become better decision-makers, at...

Here’s What the ‘Manosphere’ Gets Wrong about Cuckoldry

Here’s What the ‘Manosphere’ Gets Wrong about Cuckoldry

SIN Sep 19, 2024 0 27

In online forums the term “cuck” has become synonymous with “sucker” and “loser....

The Strange Story of the Algorithm Meant to Solve Life, the Universe and Everything

The Strange Story of the Algorithm Meant to Solve Life,...

SIN Sep 19, 2024 0 33

Some researchers dream of solving all mysteries with a common method—but a mathe...

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