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Nearly 500 Neighborhoods Prone to Climate Disasters Will Get Extra Money for Resilience

Nearly 500 Neighborhoods Prone to Climate Disasters Wil...

SIN Sep 8, 2023 0 42

U.S. census tracts with high exposure to climate impacts will get extra federal ...

She Cracked the Mystery of How to Split the Atom, but Someone Else Got the Nobel Prize for the Discovery

She Cracked the Mystery of How to Split the Atom, but S...

SIN Sep 7, 2023 0 47

Lise Meitner, an Austrian-born Jewish physicist, never received the Nobel Prize ...

Half the World's Population Faced Extreme Heat for at Least 30 Days This Summer

Half the World's Population Faced Extreme Heat for at L...

SIN Sep 7, 2023 0 20

Nearly every person on the planet saw high temperatures that were made at least ...

What This Graph of a Dinosaur Can Teach Us about Doing Better Science

What This Graph of a Dinosaur Can Teach Us about Doing ...

SIN Sep 7, 2023 0 22

Anscombe’s quartet and the datasaurus dozen demonstrate the importance of visual...

Watch a Comet's Tail Get Mangled by the Sun

Watch a Comet's Tail Get Mangled by the Sun

SIN Sep 7, 2023 0 25

Discovered only last month, Comet Nishimura is drawing attention before close ap...

Algorithms Are Making Important Decisions. What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

Algorithms Are Making Important Decisions. What Could P...

SIN Sep 7, 2023 0 21

Seemingly trivial differences in training data can skew the judgments of AI prog...

Why Do Cats Knead Like They're Making Biscuits?

Why Do Cats Knead Like They're Making Biscuits?

SIN Sep 7, 2023 0 28

Often nicknamed “making biscuits,” kneading is a good sign that your cat is happ...

Human Ancestors Nearly Went Extinct 900,000 Years Ago

Human Ancestors Nearly Went Extinct 900,000 Years Ago

SIN Sep 7, 2023 0 19

A new technique for analyzing modern genetic data suggests that prehumans surviv...

As Heat Waves Worsen, Federal Aid Is Insufficient to Fund Cooling Needs

As Heat Waves Worsen, Federal Aid Is Insufficient to Fu...

SIN Sep 6, 2023 0 18

Many states prioritize using money from a federal energy assistance program for ...

What Are the Best and Safest Sunscreens?

What Are the Best and Safest Sunscreens?

SIN Sep 6, 2023 0 39

What dermatologists say about sun sensitivity, cancer risk and the products they...

This Tick Bite Makes You Allergic to Red Meat

This Tick Bite Makes You Allergic to Red Meat

SIN Sep 6, 2023 0 21

The bite of the lone star tick makes people allergic to a sugar found in mammal ...

The U.S. Undercounts Climate-Driven Deaths

The U.S. Undercounts Climate-Driven Deaths

SIN Sep 6, 2023 0 59

The full death toll from extreme heat waves, hurricanes and other climate-relate...

Why High-Speed Bullet Trains Won't Work in the U.S. Right Now

Why High-Speed Bullet Trains Won't Work in the U.S. Rig...

SIN Sep 6, 2023 0 36

Amtrak will soon get 28 high-speed rail cars. But they won't operate at high spe...

This Lesbian Monkey Love Triangle Tells Us Something Really Interesting about Darwin's 'Paradox'

This Lesbian Monkey Love Triangle Tells Us Something Re...

SIN Sep 5, 2023 0 45

A “Darwinian paradox” is that homosexual activity occurs even though it does not...

What Do Climate Scientists Tell Their Kids about the Future?

What Do Climate Scientists Tell Their Kids about the Fu...

SIN Sep 5, 2023 0 24

Doom and gloom, or realism and hope? Here’s how six climate experts describe the...

Physicists Explain How Heat Kills Machines and Electronics

Physicists Explain How Heat Kills Machines and Electronics

SIN Sep 5, 2023 0 57

Extreme heat can slow and even damage electronics ranging from computers to cars

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