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These Hornets Can Thrive on Just Alcohol without Getting Buzzed

These Hornets Can Thrive on Just Alcohol without Gettin...

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Social wasps can hold their liquor

The Forgotten Developer of Tamoxifen, a Lifesaving Breast Cancer Therapy

The Forgotten Developer of Tamoxifen, a Lifesaving Brea...

SIN Oct 24, 2024 0 6

Her name was on the patent for tamoxifen, but Dora Richardson’s story was lost u...

Apples Have Never Tasted So Delicious. Here’s Why

Apples Have Never Tasted So Delicious. Here’s Why

SIN Oct 24, 2024 0 8

Apple experts divide time into “before Honeycrisp” and “after Honeycrisp,” and a...

Climate Change Is Raising the Temperature on Global Conflict

Climate Change Is Raising the Temperature on Global Con...

SIN Oct 24, 2024 0 7

In a new book, a long-time foreign correspondent examines the underappreciated l...

Anyone Can Learn Echolocation in Just 10 Weeks—And It Remodels Your Brain

Anyone Can Learn Echolocation in Just 10 Weeks—And It R...

SIN Oct 24, 2024 0 13

Human echolocation repurposes parts of the brain’s visual cortex for sound, even...

The Daring Russian Geneticist Whose Experiments on Silver Foxes Explained Domestication Has Died

The Daring Russian Geneticist Whose Experiments on Silv...

SIN Oct 24, 2024 0 9

Lyudmila Trut devoted her life to studying the process of domestication by selec...

Largest-Ever Pair of Black Hole Jets Stretches 23 Million Light-Years

Largest-Ever Pair of Black Hole Jets Stretches 23 Milli...

SIN Oct 24, 2024 0 10

Supermassive black holes can expel jets of material so vast and powerful that th...

Lost Silk Road Cities Discovered High in the Mountains of Central Asia

Lost Silk Road Cities Discovered High in the Mountains ...

SIN Oct 24, 2024 0 9

On the Silk Road, these lost twin cities may have sustained themselves in a fore...

Jeff VanderMeer on How Scientific Uncertainty Inspires His Weird Fiction

Jeff VanderMeer on How Scientific Uncertainty Inspires ...

SIN Oct 23, 2024 0 12

In Absolution, the fourth novel in Jeff VanderMeer’s Southern Reach saga, scient...

As Hurricane Floodwaters Recede, a Public Health Threat Rises

As Hurricane Floodwaters Recede, a Public Health Threat...

SIN Oct 23, 2024 0 9

A potable water shortage and a toxic stew of sewage and other pollutants that Hu...

How Society’s Beauty Standards Could Impact Breast Cancer Outcomes

How Society’s Beauty Standards Could Impact Breast Canc...

SIN Oct 23, 2024 0 13

An epidemiologist explores a troubling rise in early-onset breast cancer diagnos...

Anosmia, the Inability to Smell, Changes How People Breathe

Anosmia, the Inability to Smell, Changes How People Bre...

SIN Oct 22, 2024 0 10

A small study of people with congenital anosmia found changes in breathing that ...

Indigenous People Mix Ancient and Modern Science to Protect Salmon and Bears

Indigenous People Mix Ancient and Modern Science to Pro...

SIN Oct 22, 2024 0 7

The Heiltsuk of British Columbia are using a mix of traditional principles and m...

We Need More Meds, Not Beds, to Help People Recovering from Addiction

We Need More Meds, Not Beds, to Help People Recovering ...

SIN Oct 22, 2024 0 9

People recovering from substance use disorders need homes, jobs and medication-c...

How Earth's Early Life Thrived amid Catastrophic Asteroid Impacts

How Earth's Early Life Thrived amid Catastrophic Astero...

SIN Oct 22, 2024 0 9

A gigantic space rock that slammed into Earth more than three billion years ago ...

How Your Brain Processes Zero (It’s Not Exactly ‘Nothing’)

How Your Brain Processes Zero (It’s Not Exactly ‘Nothing’)

SIN Oct 21, 2024 0 13

What we think about when we think about “zilch” is surprisingly complex, neurosc...

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