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Discrimination Has Trapped People of Color in Unhealthy Urban 'Heat Islands'

Discrimination Has Trapped People of Color in Unhealthy...

SIN Sep 24, 2023 0 22

People of color, more than other groups, live in neighborhoods prone to excess h...

Rosalind Franklin Deserves a Posthumous Nobel Prize for Co-discovering DNA Structure

Rosalind Franklin Deserves a Posthumous Nobel Prize for...

SIN Sep 24, 2023 0 44

Awarding Rosalind Franklin a Nobel Prize posthumously for her role in DNA discov...

Poem: 'Message to My Beloved Sibling'

Poem: 'Message to My Beloved Sibling'

SIN Sep 23, 2023 0 22

Science in meter and verse

More People Die from Venomous Snakebites Each Year Than Have Ever Died from Ebola

More People Die from Venomous Snakebites Each Year Than...

SIN Sep 23, 2023 0 34

In low- and middle-income nations, snakebite envenoming is more deadly than almo...

Valley Fever Is a Growing Fungal Threat to Outdoor Workers

Valley Fever Is a Growing Fungal Threat to Outdoor Workers

SIN Sep 23, 2023 0 52

The disease hits farmworkers and outdoor laborers disproportionately hard

Online Ads Can Infect Your Device with Spyware

Online Ads Can Infect Your Device with Spyware

SIN Sep 23, 2023 0 55

An investigative report reveals that new spyware can slip in unseen through onli...

U.S. Will Weigh Cost of Carbon Pollution in More Government Decisions

U.S. Will Weigh Cost of Carbon Pollution in More Govern...

SIN Sep 23, 2023 0 25

Calculations determining the climate damage of greenhouse gas emissions—called t...

People Who Are Changing the Environment One Community at a Time

People Who Are Changing the Environment One Community a...

SIN Sep 22, 2023 0 51

These four researchers are highlighting environmental inequities and improving t...

See How AI Generates Images from Text

See How AI Generates Images from Text

SIN Sep 22, 2023 0 46

Generative AI algorithms use probability to create visuals from noise

These Adorable Jellyfish Show Learning Doesn't Even Require a Brain

These Adorable Jellyfish Show Learning Doesn't Even Req...

SIN Sep 22, 2023 0 47

Human scientists—used to the benefits of a centralized, complex brain—have been ...

This Researcher Captured Air from the Amazon in Dive-Bombs--And Found Grim Clues That the Forest Is Dying

This Researcher Captured Air from the Amazon in Dive-Bo...

SIN Sep 22, 2023 0 19

One researcher has been hiring planes to strafe the sky over the Amazon rain for...

Artificial Intelligence Could Finally Let Us Talk with Animals

Artificial Intelligence Could Finally Let Us Talk with ...

SIN Sep 22, 2023 0 48

AI is poised to revolutionize our understanding of animal communication

Fixing Air Pollution Could Dramatically Improve Health Disparities

Fixing Air Pollution Could Dramatically Improve Health ...

SIN Sep 22, 2023 0 25

The most marginalized people are breathing the most polluted air, and improving ...

The Equinox Is Not What You Think It Is

The Equinox Is Not What You Think It Is

SIN Sep 22, 2023 0 22

The equinox is not when day and night have equal lengths. Instead it’s something...

AI Tool Pinpoints Genetic Mutations That Cause Disease

AI Tool Pinpoints Genetic Mutations That Cause Disease

SIN Sep 22, 2023 0 33

Researchers have adapted the AI network to search for genetic changes linked to ...

World Governments Recommit to 2030 Goals to Save Humanity

World Governments Recommit to 2030 Goals to Save Humanity

SIN Sep 22, 2023 0 44

United Nations secretary-general António Guterres is proposing a $500-billion an...

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