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How Advocates Pushed Big Pharma to Cut Tuberculosis Drug Prices

How Advocates Pushed Big Pharma to Cut Tuberculosis Dru...

SIN Aug 14, 2023 0 28

The world’s best TB drug was too expensive for sufferers—until advocates and a Y...

Why Are COVID Rates Increasing in the Summer?

Why Are COVID Rates Increasing in the Summer?

SIN Aug 14, 2023 0 23

COVID hospitalizations are slowly rising again this summer, causing scientists a...

AI Causes Real Harm. Let's Focus on That over the End-of-Humanity Hype

AI Causes Real Harm. Let's Focus on That over the End-o...

SIN Aug 12, 2023 0 30

Effective regulation of AI needs grounded science that investigates real harms, ...

Carbon Capture Projects Get $1 Billion in New Federal Funding

Carbon Capture Projects Get $1 Billion in New Federal F...

SIN Aug 12, 2023 0 19

This first-of-its-kind federal funding is meant to jump-start a new industry tha...

How Wildfires Kill People

How Wildfires Kill People

SIN Aug 12, 2023 0 20

The deadly wildfire in Lahaina, Hawaii, has killed dozens of people so far. Here...

Russia Launches First Moon Mission after Half-Century Hiatus

Russia Launches First Moon Mission after Half-Century H...

SIN Aug 11, 2023 0 26

The Luna 25 spacecraft will attempt to land at the lunar south pole for the firs...

Earendel, the Most Distant Known Star, Reveals Its Secrets to JWST

Earendel, the Most Distant Known Star, Reveals Its Secr...

SIN Aug 11, 2023 0 34

A new view of a record-shattering distant star shows it to be twice as hot as ou...

Is Climate Change Causing More Record-Breaking Hail?

Is Climate Change Causing More Record-Breaking Hail?

SIN Aug 11, 2023 0 53

Enormous hailstones raise the question of whether global warming will intensify ...

Perseid Meteor Shower Peaks This Weekend in a Stargazing Must-See

Perseid Meteor Shower Peaks This Weekend in a Stargazin...

SIN Aug 11, 2023 0 20

All you need to see one of the year’s best meteor showers is a clear, dark sky—a...

The World's Oldest Moss Outlived the Dinosaurs, but It May Not Survive Climate Change

The World's Oldest Moss Outlived the Dinosaurs, but It ...

SIN Aug 11, 2023 0 26

The world’s oldest moss has survived Earth’s shifting landscapes for more than 4...

Maui's Deadly Wildfires Are a Reminder of Growing Risks

Maui's Deadly Wildfires Are a Reminder of Growing Risks

SIN Aug 11, 2023 0 21

Human exposure to wildfires in the U.S. more than doubled in the past two decade...

Racism in Health: The Roots of the U.S. Black Maternal Mortality Crisis

Racism in Health: The Roots of the U.S. Black Maternal ...

SIN Aug 10, 2023 0 20

A perfect storm of factors has led to huge racial disparities in maternal health...

Muon Mystery Deepens with Latest Measurements

Muon Mystery Deepens with Latest Measurements

SIN Aug 10, 2023 0 43

The latest data from the Muon g−2 experiment corroborates previous results, but ...

The Gambling Strategy That's Guaranteed to Make Money and Why You Should Never Use It

The Gambling Strategy That's Guaranteed to Make Money a...

SIN Aug 10, 2023 0 24

The Martingale betting strategy has led many gamblers to ruin when the Kelly cri...

Most Americans Support NASA--But Don't Think It Should Prioritize Sending People To Space

Most Americans Support NASA--But Don't Think It Should ...

SIN Aug 10, 2023 0 25

Scholars look to understand how Americans view space activities

The Mysterious Origins of 'X' in Algebra

The Mysterious Origins of 'X' in Algebra

SIN Aug 10, 2023 0 28

The letter X is key to modern algebra. But no one knows why

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