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Doctors Do Racist Things to Patients. Here Are Seven Ways They Can Stop

Doctors Do Racist Things to Patients. Here Are Seven Wa...

SIN Oct 26, 2023 0 29

Physicians need to be aware of how their choice of words and patient labels affe...

Space Junk Is Polluting Earth's Stratosphere with Vaporized Metal

Space Junk Is Polluting Earth's Stratosphere with Vapor...

SIN Oct 26, 2023 0 22

Defunct satellites and other pieces of orbital debris are pumping metals into Ea...

Hurricane Otis Came Out of Nowhere to Slam into Mexico

Hurricane Otis Came Out of Nowhere to Slam into Mexico

SIN Oct 26, 2023 0 47

Tropical Storm Otis rapidly intensified into a Category 5 hurricane overnight in...

We Are Racing Toward Earth's Catastrophic Tipping Points

We Are Racing Toward Earth's Catastrophic Tipping Points

SIN Oct 26, 2023 0 61

Temperatures are skyrocketing. Extinctions are accelerating. Groundwater is bein...

Astronomers May Have Witnessed Worlds in Collision

Astronomers May Have Witnessed Worlds in Collision

SIN Oct 26, 2023 0 37

A planet-vaporizing impact is the leading explanation for a distant star’s curio...

Does Humanity Have to Eat Meat?

Does Humanity Have to Eat Meat?

SIN Oct 25, 2023 0 60

Meat-eating may not have made us human after all, say paleoanthropologists

The Tale of the Rotifer That Came Back to Life after 25,000 Years in an Icy Tomb

The Tale of the Rotifer That Came Back to Life after 25...

SIN Oct 25, 2023 0 34

Can something spring back to life if it last moved around when woolly mammoths r...

Can a Bad Night's Sleep Trigger a Migraine?

Can a Bad Night's Sleep Trigger a Migraine?

SIN Oct 25, 2023 0 28

Scientists have found a feedback loop between poor sleep and migraine attacks, a...

The World Solved Acid Rain. We Can Also Solve Climate Change

The World Solved Acid Rain. We Can Also Solve Climate C...

SIN Oct 25, 2023 0 51

Lessons from how we tackled acid rain can be applied to our world today

Depleted Groundwater Could Be Refilled by Borrowing a Trick from Solar Power

Depleted Groundwater Could Be Refilled by Borrowing a T...

SIN Oct 25, 2023 0 23

In many places around the world, groundwater is being pumped out faster than nat...

'Modified' Gravity May Make Planet Nine Disappear

'Modified' Gravity May Make Planet Nine Disappear

SIN Oct 25, 2023 0 28

Strange patterns in the orbits of small objects in the outer solar system could ...

Global Fossil-Fuel Demand Can Peak Before 2030--Here's How

Global Fossil-Fuel Demand Can Peak Before 2030--Here's How

SIN Oct 24, 2023 0 35

It’s possible for fossil-fuel demand to peak before the end of the decade, but e...

Flesh-Eating Bacteria Cases Spiked in Florida after Hurricane Ian

Flesh-Eating Bacteria Cases Spiked in Florida after Hur...

SIN Oct 24, 2023 0 19

A recent study found that Hurricane Ian led to a spike in cases of vibriosis, a ...

Spicy Food Probably Doesn't Cause Long-Term Harm

Spicy Food Probably Doesn't Cause Long-Term Harm

SIN Oct 24, 2023 0 27

While spicy food can cause pain, it isn’t linked to higher mortality rates

Earth's Latest 'Vital Signs' Show the Planet Is in Crisis

Earth's Latest 'Vital Signs' Show the Planet Is in Crisis

SIN Oct 24, 2023 0 48

The overall picture of Earth’s health is grim, although there are bright spots: ...

All Natural Numbers Are Either Happy or Sad. Some Are Narcissistic, Too

All Natural Numbers Are Either Happy or Sad. Some Are N...

SIN Oct 24, 2023 0 58

The number 1 is among the happiest numbers, 4 is sad, and both are narcissistic

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