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Why Maternal Mortality Rates Are Getting Worse Across the U.S.

Why Maternal Mortality Rates Are Getting Worse Across t...

SIN Jul 25, 2023 0 4

A new study shows U.S. maternal mortality rates are increasing, and health care ...

Teenagers Skeptical of Social Media Have a Lower Risk of Eating Disorders

Teenagers Skeptical of Social Media Have a Lower Risk o...

SIN Jul 25, 2023 0 5

Young people can counter social media messaging that promotes thinness by bringi...

How a Doodler's Problem Sparked a Controversy in Math

How a Doodler's Problem Sparked a Controversy in Math

SIN Jul 25, 2023 0 4

The twisty history and surprise ending of the four-color theorem saga

Psychopathic Tendencies Help Some People Succeed in Business

Psychopathic Tendencies Help Some People Succeed in Bus...

SIN Jul 25, 2023 0 4

Traits in psychopaths may be present to some extent in all of us. New research i...

Are You a Lucid Dreamer?

Are You a Lucid Dreamer?

SIN Jul 25, 2023 0 7

A sleep researcher who studies what dreams can tell us about the possible onset ...

City Sewers Can't Handle Climate Change's Intense Rains

City Sewers Can't Handle Climate Change's Intense Rains

SIN Jul 24, 2023 0 5

A Federal Emergency Management Agency analysis of New York City’s inadequate sto...

'Man in the Moon' Older Than Scientists Thought

'Man in the Moon' Older Than Scientists Thought

SIN Jul 24, 2023 0 6

Revisiting the precious lunar samples on Earth suggests that some areas of the m...

How the Four-Color Map Problem Was Finally Solved

How the Four-Color Map Problem Was Finally Solved

SIN Jul 24, 2023 0 5

The twisty history and surprise ending of the four-color theorem saga

Only 26 Black Women Have Ever Become Astrophysicists in the U.S. Here's One's Story

Only 26 Black Women Have Ever Become Astrophysicists in...

SIN Jul 24, 2023 0 5

Astrophysicist Aomawa Shields recounts her alternative career path in a new memo...

Why Do Cats Land on Their Feet? Physics Explains

Why Do Cats Land on Their Feet? Physics Explains

SIN Jul 24, 2023 0 4

As it turns out, felines can survive a fall from any height—at least in theory

1,800-Year-Old Spices Are Earliest Evidence of Curry Making in Southeast Asia

1,800-Year-Old Spices Are Earliest Evidence of Curry Ma...

SIN Jul 22, 2023 0 5

Archaeologists found evidence of spices such as turmeric and cloves from ancient...

How We Can Adapt to Live with Extreme Heat

How We Can Adapt to Live with Extreme Heat

SIN Jul 21, 2023 0 5

We can run from hurricanes, hide behind seawalls and buy wildfire insurance. Her...

What Was the Manhattan Project?

What Was the Manhattan Project?

SIN Jul 21, 2023 0 4

The top-secret Manhattan Project resulted in the atomic bombs dropped on the Jap...

Here's What 'Oppenheimer' Gets Right--and Wrong--about Nuclear History

Here's What 'Oppenheimer' Gets Right--and Wrong--about ...

SIN Jul 21, 2023 0 28

Here's what a historian who has studied J. Robert Oppenheimer for two decades ha...

C-section Rates Are Way Too High. We Need to Hold Doctors and Hospitals Accountable

C-section Rates Are Way Too High. We Need to Hold Docto...

SIN Jul 21, 2023 0 7

Around half a million excess cesarean births occur every year in the U.S., putti...

Oppenheimer Almost Discovered Black Holes Before He Became 'Destroyer of Worlds'

Oppenheimer Almost Discovered Black Holes Before He Bec...

SIN Jul 21, 2023 0 20

Before leading the Manhattan Project, J. Robert Oppenheimer co-authored a paper ...

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