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This Simple Strategy Might Be the Key to Advancing Science Faster

This Simple Strategy Might Be the Key to Advancing Scie...

SIN Apr 24, 2024 0 20

The incentives in science don’t always encourage openness—but being wrong might ...

Glow-in-the-Dark Animals May Have Been Around for 540 Million Years

Glow-in-the-Dark Animals May Have Been Around for 540 M...

SIN Apr 24, 2024 0 39

Ancestors of so-called “soft” corals may have developed bioluminescence in the e...

Is There a Human Hiding behind That Robot or AI? A Brief History of Automatons That Were Actually People

Is There a Human Hiding behind That Robot or AI? A Brie...

SIN Apr 24, 2024 0 17

When human labor is hidden under the veneer of a robot or AI tool, that’s “fauxt...

New Interactive Map Shows Where Extreme Heat Threatens Health

New Interactive Map Shows Where Extreme Heat Threatens ...

SIN Apr 24, 2024 0 24

People in the U.S. will be able to see where extreme heat is a threat to health ...

An Epitaph for Daniel Dennett, Philosopher of Consciousness

An Epitaph for Daniel Dennett, Philosopher of Conscious...

SIN Apr 23, 2024 0 25

Is consciousness nothing more than an illusion? That idea defined the work of Da...

Is There a Human Hiding behind That Robot or AI?

Is There a Human Hiding behind That Robot or AI?

SIN Apr 23, 2024 0 23

When human labor is hidden under the veneer of a robot or AI tool, that’s “fauxt...

How Ugandan Tobacco Farmers Inadvertently Spread Bat-Borne Viruses

How Ugandan Tobacco Farmers Inadvertently Spread Bat-Bo...

SIN Apr 23, 2024 0 21

By cutting trees in response to international demand for tobacco, farmers induce...

After Months of Gibberish, Voyager 1 Is Communicating Well Again

After Months of Gibberish, Voyager 1 Is Communicating W...

SIN Apr 23, 2024 0 34

NASA scientists spent months coaxing the 46-year-old Voyager 1 spacecraft back i...

Biden Kicks Off Earth Week with Solar Funding, Expanding Climate Corps

Biden Kicks Off Earth Week with Solar Funding, Expandin...

SIN Apr 22, 2024 0 27

The Biden administration is marking Earth Week with announcements of solar power...

Time Slows Down When We See Something Memorable

Time Slows Down When We See Something Memorable

SIN Apr 22, 2024 0 21

New research shows that looking at memorable images can warp our perception of time

Experimental Ovarian Cryopreservation Could Delay Menopause, but Experts Are Weighing the Risks

Experimental Ovarian Cryopreservation Could Delay Menop...

SIN Apr 22, 2024 0 21

Extracting, freezing and retransplanting slices of hormone-producing ovarian tis...

Quantum Computers Can Run Powerful AI That Works like the Brain

Quantum Computers Can Run Powerful AI That Works like t...

SIN Apr 22, 2024 0 25

The influential AI design that makes chatbots tick now runs on quantum computers

How a Cloned Ferret Inspired a DNA Bank for Endangered Species

How a Cloned Ferret Inspired a DNA Bank for Endangered ...

SIN Apr 22, 2024 0 29

The birth of a cloned black-footed ferret named Elizabeth Ann, and her two new s...

: Experimental Ovarian Cryopreservation Could Delay Menopause, but Experts Are Weighing the Risks

: Experimental Ovarian Cryopreservation Could Delay Men...

SIN Apr 22, 2024 0 38

Extracting, freezing and retransplanting slices of hormone-producing ovarian tis...

Low-Earth Orbit Faces a Spiraling Debris Threat

Low-Earth Orbit Faces a Spiraling Debris Threat

SIN Apr 22, 2024 0 21

Millions of human-made objects travel at high speeds in low-Earth orbit, polluti...

Will the Amazon Rain Forest Help Save the Planet?

Will the Amazon Rain Forest Help Save the Planet?

SIN Apr 22, 2024 0 22

Years in the making, a project in the Amazon rain forest is finally set to deter...

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