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These Bizarre Devices Could Generate Power from Ocean Waves

These Bizarre Devices Could Generate Power from Ocean W...

SIN Oct 20, 2023 0 45

A facility off the coast of Oregon is being constructed to test devices to harne...

A Nasty Tropical Skin Disease Is Now Endemic in the U.S.

A Nasty Tropical Skin Disease Is Now Endemic in the U.S.

SIN Oct 20, 2023 0 20

A unique U.S. strain of leishmaniasis has just been reported

No One Should Die Waiting for an Organ Transplant. These Doctors Want to Ensure That Doesn't Happen

No One Should Die Waiting for an Organ Transplant. Thes...

SIN Oct 19, 2023 0 30

Advances are increasing the supply of organs. But this isn’t enough. Enter the g...

Popular Weight-Loss Drugs Come with Side Effects

Popular Weight-Loss Drugs Come with Side Effects

SIN Oct 19, 2023 0 36

Recent studies evaluate risks associated with drugs such as Wegovy and Mounjaro

A New Way to Inspire People to Get a COVID Vaccine

A New Way to Inspire People to Get a COVID Vaccine

SIN Oct 19, 2023 0 42

Research on what makes people willing to donate organs shows how to motivate man...

Universities Need to Address Sexual Harassment in the Gaming They Sponsor

Universities Need to Address Sexual Harassment in the G...

SIN Oct 19, 2023 0 25

Esports are booming on college campuses, and safe participation in gaming is a n...

Traces of Oldest and Largest Solar Storm Found in Buried French Forest

Traces of Oldest and Largest Solar Storm Found in Burie...

SIN Oct 19, 2023 0 45

An enormous “Miyake event”—a bombardment of Earth by particles from the sun—hit ...

This Public Health Measure Bridges the National Divide over Firearms--Just Don't Call It Gun Control

This Public Health Measure Bridges the National Divide ...

SIN Oct 19, 2023 0 18

Some states have begun to buy into the need for off-site firearm storage to prot...

Your Personal Information Is Probably Being Used to Train Generative AI Models

Your Personal Information Is Probably Being Used to Tra...

SIN Oct 19, 2023 0 22

Companies are training their generative AI models on vast swathes of the Interne...

Simultaneous Megafires Will Increasingly Plague the Western U.S.

Simultaneous Megafires Will Increasingly Plague the Wes...

SIN Oct 19, 2023 0 21

The Western U.S. faces a future of fighting multiple large wildfires at once—a s...

New Pill Helps COVID Smell and Taste Loss Fade Quickly

New Pill Helps COVID Smell and Taste Loss Fade Quickly

SIN Oct 19, 2023 0 42

The antiviral drug ensitrelvir, which has not been approved outside of Japan, sh...

Milestone Pig-to-Human Heart Transplant May Pave the Way for Broader Trial

Milestone Pig-to-Human Heart Transplant May Pave the Wa...

SIN Oct 18, 2023 0 18

Surgeons transplanted a genetically modified pig heart into a human for the seco...

'Virtual' Power Plants Give the Grid Vital Flexibility

'Virtual' Power Plants Give the Grid Vital Flexibility

SIN Oct 18, 2023 0 18

Virtual power plants are aggregations of electricity producers, consumers and st...

Protecting Plants and Animals at Risk Must Start before They Need the Endangered Species Act

Protecting Plants and Animals at Risk Must Start before...

SIN Oct 18, 2023 0 16

The Endangered Species Act is an emergency measure turning 50 this year. Focusin...

How Would We Know There's Life on Earth? This Bold Experiment Found Out

How Would We Know There's Life on Earth? This Bold Expe...

SIN Oct 18, 2023 0 27

Thirty years ago, astronomer Carl Sagan convinced NASA to turn a passing space p...

Grammar Changes How We See, an Australian Language Shows

Grammar Changes How We See, an Australian Language Shows

SIN Oct 18, 2023 0 25

An Aboriginal language provides unexpected insight into how language influences ...

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