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Antarctica's Penguins Could Be Devastated by Avian Influenza

Antarctica's Penguins Could Be Devastated by Avian Infl...

SIN Feb 12, 2024 0 19

Scientists are watching closely to see whether avian influenza will reach Antarc...

Pseudoscience Has Long Been Used to Oppress Transgender People

Pseudoscience Has Long Been Used to Oppress Transgender...

SIN Feb 12, 2024 0 18

Three major waves of opposition to transgender health care in the past century h...

Cybercrime Security Gap Leaves People Who Aren't Proficient in English Poorly Protected

Cybercrime Security Gap Leaves People Who Aren't Profic...

SIN Feb 12, 2024 0 23

Our research finds that language is often a barrier for people dealing with cybe...

CDC's Labs Are Making a Comeback. Now They Need Support

CDC's Labs Are Making a Comeback. Now They Need Support

SIN Feb 12, 2024 0 42

The pandemic early exposed weaknesses in CDC’s laboratories. Organizational and ...

Here's Why Infants Are Strangely Resistant to COVID

Here's Why Infants Are Strangely Resistant to COVID

SIN Feb 12, 2024 0 41

Very young children’s developing immune systems respond to the COVID-causing vir...

Cape Cod Faces a Rising 'Yellow Tide'

Cape Cod Faces a Rising 'Yellow Tide'

SIN Feb 12, 2024 0 20

Tourism is big business on the cape, but a growing environmental issue could dis...

Why Do Birds Have Such Skinny Legs?

Why Do Birds Have Such Skinny Legs?

SIN Feb 10, 2024 0 60

The songbirds in your backyard hop around on such itty-bitty legs. Here’s why bi...

Embattled Climate Scientist Michael Mann Wins $1 Million in Defamation Lawsuit

Embattled Climate Scientist Michael Mann Wins $1 Millio...

SIN Feb 10, 2024 0 20

Michael Mann secured a win in his legal battle against conservative bloggers who...

Second Private U.S. Moon Lander Readies for Launch

Second Private U.S. Moon Lander Readies for Launch

SIN Feb 9, 2024 0 18

Intuitive Machines’ IM-1 is aiming to be the first commercial mission to softly ...

JWST's Puzzling Early Galaxies Don't Break Cosmology--But They Do Bend Astrophysics

JWST's Puzzling Early Galaxies Don't Break Cosmology--B...

SIN Feb 9, 2024 0 21

Rather than ripping up our fundamental models of the universe, the unexpectedly ...

What Taylor Swift Conspiracies Reveal, According to Science

What Taylor Swift Conspiracies Reveal, According to Sci...

SIN Feb 9, 2024 0 56

Yes, conspiracy narratives are everywhere. But it’s not as bad as you think

Planets Orbiting Dead Stars Foretell the Solar System's Far-Future Fate

Planets Orbiting Dead Stars Foretell the Solar System's...

SIN Feb 9, 2024 0 36

Images of possible planets around white dwarf stars suggest that some gas-giant ...

Aggression Disorders Are Serious, Stigmatized and Treatable

Aggression Disorders Are Serious, Stigmatized and Treat...

SIN Feb 9, 2024 0 17

Researchers have a clearer picture than ever before of how common conditions tha...

Bilingualism Is Reworking This Language's Rainbow

Bilingualism Is Reworking This Language's Rainbow

SIN Feb 9, 2024 0 42

The Tsimane’ language divides the rainbow into blackish, reddish and whitish. Bu...

How April's Eclipse Will Solve Solar Mysteries

How April's Eclipse Will Solve Solar Mysteries

SIN Feb 9, 2024 0 57

Experiments planned for the 2024 total solar eclipse aim to figure out how the s...

Tougher AI Policies Could Protect Taylor Swift--And Everyone Else--From Deepfakes

Tougher AI Policies Could Protect Taylor Swift--And Eve...

SIN Feb 9, 2024 0 43

In January Taylor Swift became the latest high-profile target of nonconsensual d...

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