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The real science (and the fun fiction) behind Project Hail Mary

The real science (and the fun fiction) behind Project H...

SIN Mar 20, 2026 0 14

The author of the novel Project Hail Mary breaks down aliens, anxiety and the pr...

Influential vaccine advisory panel ACIP may be ‘disbanded’ after lawsuit, says former vice chair

Influential vaccine advisory panel ACIP may be ‘disband...

SIN Mar 20, 2026 0 16

For years, ACIP has advised U.S. vaccine policy. But after changes to its member...

When did plate tectonics on Earth begin? New research finds some of the earliest clues

When did plate tectonics on Earth begin? New research f...

SIN Mar 20, 2026 0 18

Scientists have found the oldest direct evidence for tectonic motion on Earth by...

The world’s happiest countries report calls attention to youth well-being

The world’s happiest countries report calls attention t...

SIN Mar 20, 2026 0 16

An annual world happiness ranking for 2026 explores how the use of social media ...

What animal are you? Humans and animals tend to like the same mating calls

What animal are you? Humans and animals tend to like th...

SIN Mar 20, 2026 0 18

Whether it’s a canary’s chirp or a treefrog’s croak, humans tend to prefer many ...

How the Project Hail Mary directors brought science to the big screen

How the Project Hail Mary directors brought science to ...

SIN Mar 20, 2026 0 18

Project Hail Mary directors Christopher Miller and Phil Miller talk about astrob...

Drug retatrutide helps people lower blood sugar and lose weight, clinical trial results show

Drug retatrutide helps people lower blood sugar and los...

SIN Mar 20, 2026 0 16

Retatrutide is among a new class of weight loss drugs being tested for their eff...

The world's happiest countries report calls attention to youth well-being

The world's happiest countries report calls attention t...

SIN Mar 20, 2026 0 20

Gallup’s annual world happiness ranking for 2026 explores how the use of social ...

Try these language puzzles from North America’s biggest linguistics competition

Try these language puzzles from North America’s biggest...

SIN Mar 19, 2026 0 20

For 20 years, this computational linguistics competition has inspired new genera...

Gerd Faltings, mathematician who proved the Mordell conjecture, wins the Abel Prize at age 71

Gerd Faltings, mathematician who proved the Mordell con...

SIN Mar 19, 2026 0 24

The Mordell conjecture—now known as Faltings’s theorem—concerns the number of sp...

Something extremely weird is happening to our galactic neighbor. Scientists think they know why

Something extremely weird is happening to our galactic ...

SIN Mar 19, 2026 0 17

The stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud aren’t behaving the way they should. A c...

The math of March Madness brackets

The math of March Madness brackets

SIN Mar 19, 2026 0 12

Or When can mathematicians reverse engineer basketball tournament results from y...

The Iran war disrupts global helium supply and artificial intelligence chipmakers

The Iran war disrupts global helium supply and artifici...

SIN Mar 19, 2026 0 23

The closure of the Strait of Hormuz has trapped a third of the world’s commercia...

There might be less water on the moon than we’d hoped

There might be less water on the moon than we’d hoped

SIN Mar 19, 2026 0 19

New satellite data come up dry as the search for lunar ice continues

COVID probably killed 150,000 more people in its first two years than official U.S. tolls show

COVID probably killed 150,000 more people in its first ...

SIN Mar 19, 2026 0 22

We have severely undercounted the number of COVID deaths, scientists say

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover discovers even older lost rivers at Jezero Crater

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover discovers even older los...

SIN Mar 19, 2026 0 18

By plying its ground-penetrating radar in the depths of Mars’s Jezero Crater, th...

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