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Polymetallic Nodules, a Source of Rare Metals, May Hold the Secrets of 'Dark Oxygen'

Polymetallic Nodules, a Source of Rare Metals, May Hold...

SIN Jul 24, 2025 0 20

When researchers discovered "dark oxygen" last year, the news spread around the ...

Gravitational Wave Science Faces Budget Cuts Just Years After Breakthrough Discoveries

Gravitational Wave Science Faces Budget Cuts Just Years...

SIN Jul 24, 2025 0 25

Less than a decade since the first detection of gravitational waves—ripples in s...

Study Finds COVID Pandemic Accelerated Brain Aging in Everyone

Study Finds COVID Pandemic Accelerated Brain Aging in E...

SIN Jul 23, 2025 0 22

A study of nearly 1,000 people showed that brain aging was not linked to infecti...

Physicists Blast Gold to Astonishing Temperatures, Overturning 40 Years of Physics

Physicists Blast Gold to Astonishing Temperatures, Over...

SIN Jul 23, 2025 0 37

Physicists superheated gold to 14 times its melting point, disproving a long-sta...

Can a Chatbot be Conscious? Inside Anthropic’s Interpretability Research on Claude 4

Can a Chatbot be Conscious? Inside Anthropic’s Interpre...

SIN Jul 23, 2025 0 28

As large language models like Claude 4 express uncertainty about whether they ar...

Nonfiction and Fiction Summer Reading Recommendations from Scientific American

Nonfiction and Fiction Summer Reading Recommendations f...

SIN Jul 23, 2025 0 17

If you’re seeking a summer read, Scientific American has some fantastic fiction ...

Ozzy Osbourne, Who Suffered with a Form of Parkinson’s, Dies at 76

Ozzy Osbourne, Who Suffered with a Form of Parkinson’s,...

SIN Jul 23, 2025 0 21

Ozzy Osbourne, lead singer of Black Sabbath, has died at age 76. He said he had ...

Trump Administration Changes at NIH, EPA, NASA, NSF Spark Internal Dissent

Trump Administration Changes at NIH, EPA, NASA, NSF Spa...

SIN Jul 23, 2025 0 33

Hundreds of staffers at the National Institutes of Health, Environmental Protect...

Ozzy Osbourne, Who Suffered with Rare Form of Parkinson’s, Dies at 76

Ozzy Osbourne, Who Suffered with Rare Form of Parkinson...

SIN Jul 23, 2025 0 22

Ozzy Osbourne, lead singer of Black Sabbath, has died at age 76. He had been pre...

Biggest Trial of Four-Day Workweek Finds Workers Are Happier and Feel Just as Productive

Biggest Trial of Four-Day Workweek Finds Workers Are Ha...

SIN Jul 22, 2025 0 29

The largest yet study on a four-day workweek included 141 companies, 90 percent ...

NASA Employees Warn Science and Safety Are at Risk from White House Budget Cuts

NASA Employees Warn Science and Safety Are at Risk from...

SIN Jul 22, 2025 0 16

A declaration of dissent from past and present NASA employees warns that science...

Why I’m Suing OpenAI, the Creator of ChatGPT

Why I’m Suing OpenAI, the Creator of ChatGPT

SIN Jul 22, 2025 0 23

My lawsuit in Hawaii lays out the safety issues in OpenAI’s products and how the...

Male Birth Control Pill YCT-529 Passes Human Safety Test

Male Birth Control Pill YCT-529 Passes Human Safety Test

SIN Jul 22, 2025 0 20

A hormone-free pill, called YCT-529, that temporarily stops sperm production by ...

Optimists Are Alike, but Pessimists Are Unique, Brain Scan Study Suggests

Optimists Are Alike, but Pessimists Are Unique, Brain S...

SIN Jul 22, 2025 0 20

Optimists have similar patterns of brain activation when they think about the fu...

Could AI Have Prevented SkyWest Airliner’s Near Collision with a B-52 Bomber?

Could AI Have Prevented SkyWest Airliner’s Near Collisi...

SIN Jul 22, 2025 0 28

A SkyWest pilot’s last-second decision could have prevented a collision that air...

Try These Logic Puzzles from the International Logic Olympiad

Try These Logic Puzzles from the International Logic Ol...

SIN Jul 22, 2025 0 24

In only its second year, the International Logic Olympiad is already booming as ...

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