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Stopping the Latest Outbreak Threat: Chronic Wasting Disease

Stopping the Latest Outbreak Threat: Chronic Wasting Di...

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A spillover of the neurological disease to humans from deer, elk, and other anim...

Why Does the Same Temperature Feel Hotter or Colder in Different Places?

Why Does the Same Temperature Feel Hotter or Colder in ...

SIN Feb 1, 2024 0 52

The answer isn’t just about temperature. Our physiology, psychology and clothing...

People Have Very Different Understandings of Even the Simplest Words

People Have Very Different Understandings of Even the S...

SIN Feb 1, 2024 0 25

Distinctive meanings for a word like “risk” can have a big impact on public mess...

How You Can Participate in Solar Eclipse Research

How You Can Participate in Solar Eclipse Research

SIN Feb 1, 2024 0 44

Volunteers can join several crowdsourced science projects during the total solar...

AI's Climate Impacts May Hit Marginalized People Hardest

AI's Climate Impacts May Hit Marginalized People Hardest

SIN Feb 1, 2024 0 21

A Brookings Institution report warns that energy-hungry artificial intelligence ...

Growth Hormone Injections May Have 'Seeded' Alzheimer's in Some People, Study Suggests

Growth Hormone Injections May Have 'Seeded' Alzheimer's...

SIN Feb 1, 2024 0 50

Injections of no-longer-used growth hormone derived from cadavers may have “seed...

To Predict Snowfall, NASA Planes Fly into the Storm

To Predict Snowfall, NASA Planes Fly into the Storm

SIN Jan 31, 2024 0 57

Cloud-diving expeditions reveal the hidden physics of brewing snowstorms

Computers Sculpt Hopping Gelatinous Robots

Computers Sculpt Hopping Gelatinous Robots

SIN Jan 31, 2024 0 35

These bloblike bots have been optimized for speed

Scientists Destroy Illusion That Coin Toss Flips Are 50–50

Scientists Destroy Illusion That Coin Toss Flips Are 50–50

SIN Jan 31, 2024 0 20

Researchers go to great lengths to prove a tiny bias in coin flipping

Sperm Cell Powerhouses Contain Almost No DNA

Sperm Cell Powerhouses Contain Almost No DNA

SIN Jan 31, 2024 0 20

Scientists discover why fathers usually don’t pass on their mitochondria’s genome

Rising Temperatures Are Turning Some Animals Nocturnal

Rising Temperatures Are Turning Some Animals Nocturnal

SIN Jan 31, 2024 0 22

As climate change makes the planet hotter, some animals might become more active...

Ping-Pong Ball Insulators Can Block Noise

Ping-Pong Ball Insulators Can Block Noise

SIN Jan 31, 2024 0 20

Researchers harness acoustics principles to seal out noise pollution

JWST Spots Baby Sun Spitting Up Supersonic Flows

JWST Spots Baby Sun Spitting Up Supersonic Flows

SIN Jan 31, 2024 0 26

A newly released image from the James Webb Space Telescope provides a detailed v...

Fossils Finally Reveal Fiery Colors of Prehistoric Animals

Fossils Finally Reveal Fiery Colors of Prehistoric Animals

SIN Jan 31, 2024 0 25

An ancient frog, bird and dinosaur wore elusive yellow and orange shades, a new ...

Alien World Denser Than Steel Confounds Our Understanding of Planet Formation

Alien World Denser Than Steel Confounds Our Understandi...

SIN Jan 31, 2024 0 17

A newly spotted world is just perplexingly dense

Will Quantum Computers Upend Cryptography as We Know It?

Will Quantum Computers Upend Cryptography as We Know It?

SIN Jan 31, 2024 0 29

Experts are starting to plan for the moment when a quantum computer large enough...

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