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Bed Bugs and Influencers Spark Pest Panic in Paris. Here's What You Need to Know

Bed Bugs and Influencers Spark Pest Panic in Paris. Her...

SIN Oct 13, 2023 0 23

Media reports suggest an unprecedented outbreak of bed bugs in Paris, but expert...

The AI Boom Could Use a Shocking Amount of Electricity

The AI Boom Could Use a Shocking Amount of Electricity

SIN Oct 13, 2023 0 22

Powering artificial intelligence models takes a lot of energy. A new analysis de...

How to Watch the Northern Lights and Other Awesome Auroras

How to Watch the Northern Lights and Other Awesome Auroras

SIN Oct 13, 2023 0 52

When the sun gets feisty, Earth’s atmosphere can literally light up. But seeing ...

Here's Why Salt Water Is Invading the Mississippi and Whether It Will Happen More Often

Here's Why Salt Water Is Invading the Mississippi and W...

SIN Oct 13, 2023 0 23

Raging floods, intensifying drought and rising seas could affect saltwater intru...

This Code Breaking Quaker Poet Hunted Nazis

This Code Breaking Quaker Poet Hunted Nazis

SIN Oct 12, 2023 0 23

How Elizebeth Smith Friedman went from scouring Shakespeare for secret codes to ...

AI Designs Little Robots in 30 Seconds and They Keep Sprouting Legs

AI Designs Little Robots in 30 Seconds and They Keep Sp...

SIN Oct 12, 2023 0 58

An AI used to build artificial neural networks can also create autonomous robot ...

Quantum Physics Isn't as Weird as You Think. It's Weirder

Quantum Physics Isn't as Weird as You Think. It's Weirder

SIN Oct 12, 2023 0 47

Quantum physics’ oddities seem less surprising if you stop thinking of atoms as ...

People Who Speak Backward Reveal the Brain's Endless Ability to Play with Language

People Who Speak Backward Reveal the Brain's Endless Ab...

SIN Oct 12, 2023 0 21

Argentine researchers studied a regional slang that reverses the order of word s...

NASA Reveals Sneak Peek of Historic Asteroid Sample

NASA Reveals Sneak Peek of Historic Asteroid Sample

SIN Oct 12, 2023 0 20

OSIRIS-REx’s treasure trove from asteroid Bennu includes material rich in water ...

Your Brain Finds It Easy to Size Up Four Objects But Not Five--Here's Why

Your Brain Finds It Easy to Size Up Four Objects But No...

SIN Oct 12, 2023 0 18

Neuron activity shows that the brain uses different systems for counting up to f...

Many-Mirrored Galaxies Deepen Dark Matter Mystery

Many-Mirrored Galaxies Deepen Dark Matter Mystery

SIN Oct 11, 2023 0 20

A surprisingly complex galaxy cluster suggests that in the search for dark matte...

Key Biden Climate Pollution Metric Is Safe--For Now

Key Biden Climate Pollution Metric Is Safe--For Now

SIN Oct 11, 2023 0 23

Supreme Court justices declined to decide whether the Biden administration is pl...

Monkeys with Transplanted Pig Kidneys Live for Up to Two Years or More

Monkeys with Transplanted Pig Kidneys Live for Up to Tw...

SIN Oct 11, 2023 0 20

A company that creates genetically modified pig organs for transplants hopes to ...

A Soggy Mission to Sniff Out a Greenhouse Gas 'Bomb' in the High Arctic

A Soggy Mission to Sniff Out a Greenhouse Gas 'Bomb' in...

SIN Oct 11, 2023 0 27

A needle-like tower, hung with sensors, "sniffs" the air above the Arctic circle...

Why Women Earn Less Than Men: Economic Historian Wins Nobel for Work on Gender Pay Gap

Why Women Earn Less Than Men: Economic Historian Wins N...

SIN Oct 11, 2023 0 37

Claudia Goldin mined 200 years of data to show that greater economic growth did ...

The Milky Way May Be Missing a Trillion Suns' Worth of Mass

The Milky Way May Be Missing a Trillion Suns' Worth of ...

SIN Oct 11, 2023 0 26

Slow-moving stars at the Milky Way’s outskirts suggest our galaxy may be far lig...

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