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These 352 Asteroids Likely Have Cute Little Moonlets

These 352 Asteroids Likely Have Cute Little Moonlets

SIN Aug 9, 2024 0 22

Identifying asteroids with potential moons could aid researchers in understandin...

Archaeologists Confront Extreme Conditions and Ethical Dilemmas while Investigating Ancient Human Sacrifice

Archaeologists Confront Extreme Conditions and Ethical ...

SIN Aug 9, 2024 0 11

A mountaintop burial site offers a glimpse into Inka life—but raises ethical que...

Helen Edwards Helped Create a Particle Smasher to Probe the Mysteries of Atoms

Helen Edwards Helped Create a Particle Smasher to Probe...

SIN Aug 8, 2024 0 38

Helen Edwards was a particle physicist who led the design and construction of th...

Dark Matter Hunters Meet Feared ‘Neutrino Fog’

Dark Matter Hunters Meet Feared ‘Neutrino Fog’

SIN Aug 8, 2024 0 27

With the detection of a long-predicted “neutrino fog,” the search for particles ...

Simplistic ‘Fight or Flight’ Idea Undervalues the Brain’s Predictive Powers

Simplistic ‘Fight or Flight’ Idea Undervalues the Brain...

SIN Aug 8, 2024 0 22

The brain's primary job is to reduce uncertainty in an ever-changing world

Experiments Prepare to Test Whether Consciousness Arises from Quantum Weirdness

Experiments Prepare to Test Whether Consciousness Arise...

SIN Aug 8, 2024 0 35

Researchers wish to probe whether consciousness has a basis in quantum mechanica...

Cannabis Needs Rethinking As a Strategy in the Overdose Crisis

Cannabis Needs Rethinking As a Strategy in the Overdose...

SIN Aug 8, 2024 0 23

Opioid use disorder treatment needs to take into account evolving cannabis polic...

These Living Computers Are Made from Human Neurons

These Living Computers Are Made from Human Neurons

SIN Aug 8, 2024 0 19

In the search for less energy-hungry artificial intelligence, some scientists ar...

How NASA’s Stranded Starliner Astronauts Could Fly Home with SpaceX

How NASA’s Stranded Starliner Astronauts Could Fly Home...

SIN Aug 8, 2024 0 41

NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams have been stuck on the ISS since...

Tim Walz Has a Strong Record on Climate Change

Tim Walz Has a Strong Record on Climate Change

SIN Aug 8, 2024 0 28

Minnesota governor Tim Walz will promote climate action as Kamala Harris’s vice ...

What the Google Search Monopoly Ruling Means

What the Google Search Monopoly Ruling Means

SIN Aug 8, 2024 0 29

An antitrust expert explains Monday’s landmark legal decision that Google illega...

New ‘Hobbit’ Fossil Clarifies Origin Story of this Tiny Human Relative

New ‘Hobbit’ Fossil Clarifies Origin Story of this Tiny...

SIN Aug 8, 2024 0 24

A tiny human relative called the Hobbit, or Homo floresiensis, may have evolved ...

Olympic Athletes Allowed to Compete while COVID-Positive

Olympic Athletes Allowed to Compete while COVID-Positive

SIN Aug 8, 2024 0 42

Several athletes at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games have come down with COVID, but ...

Mathematicians Reinvent the Wheel in Higher Dimensions to Solve Decades-Old Geometry Problem

Mathematicians Reinvent the Wheel in Higher Dimensions ...

SIN Aug 8, 2024 0 33

A new mathematical technique shows how to build small objects in any dimension t...

Former Hurricane Debby Stalls, Causing Heavy Rains and Flooding along East Coast

Former Hurricane Debby Stalls, Causing Heavy Rains and ...

SIN Aug 8, 2024 0 31

Some parts of the southeastern U.S. have seen more than a foot of rain from Trop...

American Science is in Dangerous Decline while Chinese Research Surges, Experts Warn

American Science is in Dangerous Decline while Chinese ...

SIN Aug 7, 2024 0 20

The U.S. sorely needs a coordinated national research strategy, says Marcia McNu...

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