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Can a Buried Time Capsule Beat Earth’s Geology and Deep Time?

Can a Buried Time Capsule Beat Earth’s Geology and Deep...

SIN Nov 18, 2025 0 43

A ridiculous but instructive thought experiment involving deep time, plate tecto...

Nuclear-Waste Arks Are a Bold Experiment in Protecting Future Generations

Nuclear-Waste Arks Are a Bold Experiment in Protecting ...

SIN Nov 18, 2025 0 47

Designing nuclear-waste repositories is part engineering, part anthropology—and ...

The Leonid Meteor Shower Is Peaking—Here’s How to Watch This Fireball-Filled Event

The Leonid Meteor Shower Is Peaking—Here’s How to Watch...

SIN Nov 18, 2025 0 35

A thin crescent moon and dark skies could give watchers a clear view of this ast...

How Technology and Friendship Preserved a 20-Year E-mail Time Capsule

How Technology and Friendship Preserved a 20-Year E-mai...

SIN Nov 17, 2025 0 36

Scientific American’s editor in chief David M. Ewalt reflects on a 20-year exper...

How Influential People Map Their Social World

How Influential People Map Their Social World

SIN Nov 17, 2025 0 43

The same brain areas that help us map physical space help us chart social connec...

Life Expectancy with Type 1 Diabetes Varies Dramatically by Nation

Life Expectancy with Type 1 Diabetes Varies Dramaticall...

SIN Nov 15, 2025 0 38

People with this autoimmune disease face much shorter life expectancies in lower...

Scientists Create 3.3 Trillion Degree Particle Soup to Mimic the Universe Just after the Big Bang

Scientists Create 3.3 Trillion Degree Particle Soup to ...

SIN Nov 15, 2025 0 28

Quark-gluon plasma, a bizarre state of matter that mimics the early cosmos, is t...

Amelia Earhart Records Released by U.S. Spy Agency

Amelia Earhart Records Released by U.S. Spy Agency

SIN Nov 15, 2025 0 32

The U.S. Office of the Director of National Intelligence released long-promised ...

Scientists Unearth Mysterious Meteorite Crater in China

Scientists Unearth Mysterious Meteorite Crater in China

SIN Nov 15, 2025 0 29

Thousands of years ago, a space rock hit what is now China, leaving a bowl-shape...

New Glenn Rocket Launch Tests Jared Isaacman’s Commercial Space Vision for NASA

New Glenn Rocket Launch Tests Jared Isaacman’s Commerci...

SIN Nov 15, 2025 0 46

NASA’s presumptive next leader wants to outsource more of the space agency’s int...

Sun Continues Celestial Fireworks Display with Powerful Solar Flare

Sun Continues Celestial Fireworks Display with Powerful...

SIN Nov 15, 2025 0 29

The same region on the sun that’s responsible for this week’s stunning auroral d...

Man With Tick-Borne Meat Allergy Dies after Eating Burger

Man With Tick-Borne Meat Allergy Dies after Eating Burger

SIN Nov 15, 2025 0 47

Lone star tick bites are the most common cause of alpha-gal syndrome, which caus...

We Had a Name for ‘Galaxies’ before We Knew They Existed

We Had a Name for ‘Galaxies’ before We Knew They Existed

SIN Nov 15, 2025 0 38

Centuries before other galaxies were known to exist, astronomers called them “sp...

Blue Origin’s NASA Launch to Mars Is a Shot across the Bow for Elon Musk’s SpaceX

Blue Origin’s NASA Launch to Mars Is a Shot across the ...

SIN Nov 15, 2025 0 36

After delays, Jeff Bezos’s rocket company successfully launched a NASA mission t...

Raccoons Are Showing Early Signs of Domestication

Raccoons Are Showing Early Signs of Domestication

SIN Nov 15, 2025 0 27

City-dwelling raccoons seem to be evolving a shorter snout—a telltale feature of...

Global Study Reveals Best Cities for Walking and Cycling

Global Study Reveals Best Cities for Walking and Cycling

SIN Nov 15, 2025 0 41

Data from 11,587 cities show that, rain or shine, some places are just better fo...

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