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Arctic Cyclones Are Getting Stronger, More Damaging

Arctic Cyclones Are Getting Stronger, More Damaging

SIN Oct 24, 2023 0 66

As the climate warms, Arctic cyclones are lasting longer and becoming stronger, ...

Generative AI Models Are Sucking Data Up From All Over the Internet, Yours Included

Generative AI Models Are Sucking Data Up From All Over ...

SIN Oct 24, 2023 0 31

In the rush to build and train ever-larger AI models, developers have swept up m...

Space Manufacturing is Not Science Fiction

Space Manufacturing is Not Science Fiction

SIN Oct 24, 2023 0 26

A Stanford researcher is growing crystals on the International Space Station to ...

What It Takes to Grow Crystals in Space

What It Takes to Grow Crystals in Space

SIN Oct 24, 2023 0 45

Researcher Debbie G. Senesky builds materials that can work on Venus

Before Trump, before Agnew, Hate Mail Reveals Long-Simmering Hostility to Journalists

Before Trump, before Agnew, Hate Mail Reveals Long-Simm...

SIN Oct 24, 2023 0 44

While contempt for news organizations is intense in the wake of Trump, archived ...

A More Reliable Wikipedia Could Come from AI Research Assistants

A More Reliable Wikipedia Could Come from AI Research A...

SIN Oct 24, 2023 0 30

A neural network can identify Wikipedia references that are unlikely to support ...

Mysterious Lightning 'Superbolts' Can Be 1,000 Times as Strong as Ordinary Strikes

Mysterious Lightning 'Superbolts' Can Be 1,000 Times as...

SIN Oct 24, 2023 0 57

Superbolts of lightning that are up to 1,000 times more intense than ordinary li...

Why Settling Mars Is a Terrible Idea

Why Settling Mars Is a Terrible Idea

SIN Oct 24, 2023 0 31

The downsides of spacefaring, infiltrating Florida’s gator poachers, and more bo...

Science News Briefs from around the World: November 2023

Science News Briefs from around the World: November 2023

SIN Oct 24, 2023 0 26

Coral trysts by moonlight in French Polynesia, polluted Antarctic wilderness, mu...

What Went Wrong with a Highly Publicized COVID Mask Analysis?

What Went Wrong with a Highly Publicized COVID Mask Ana...

SIN Oct 21, 2023 0 36

The Cochrane Library, a trusted source of health information, misled the public ...

Poems: 'Fractal' and 'In Practice'

Poems: 'Fractal' and 'In Practice'

SIN Oct 21, 2023 0 41

Science in meter and verse

Readers Respond to the June 2023 Issue

Readers Respond to the June 2023 Issue

SIN Oct 21, 2023 0 66

Letters to the editors for the June 2023 issue of Scientific American

Sleeping People Can Follow Simple Spoken Commands

Sleeping People Can Follow Simple Spoken Commands

SIN Oct 21, 2023 0 71

A new study finds that we respond to simple commands, such as smiling or frownin...

Some Parents Show Their Kids They Care With a Corpse

Some Parents Show Their Kids They Care With a Corpse

SIN Oct 21, 2023 0 43

If you’re a silphid beetle, a dead body is all your children really want, and it...

JWST Detects Quartz Crystals in an Exoplanet's Atmosphere

JWST Detects Quartz Crystals in an Exoplanet's Atmosphere

SIN Oct 21, 2023 0 50

Astronomers have found high-altitude clouds formed from quartz crystals on the g...

Can We Save Every Species from Extinction?

Can We Save Every Species from Extinction?

SIN Oct 20, 2023 0 36

The Endangered Species Act requires that every U.S. plant and animal be saved fr...

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