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Plankton Are Making Ocean Plastic Pollution Even More of a Mess

Plankton Are Making Ocean Plastic Pollution Even More o...

SIN Nov 28, 2023 0 19

Microbes tear up plastic into teeny tiny pieces that are even more dangerous to ...

Could Tougher Building Codes Fix Climate Change?

Could Tougher Building Codes Fix Climate Change?

SIN Nov 28, 2023 0 18

States that adopt updated building codes also could see big savings in energy bills

Climate Adaptation is Backfiring

Climate Adaptation is Backfiring

SIN Nov 28, 2023 0 24

The choices we make in how we adapt to climate change can sometimes come back to...

Firearm Forensics Has Proven Reliable in the Courtroom. And in the Lab

Firearm Forensics Has Proven Reliable in the Courtroom....

SIN Nov 27, 2023 0 3

Despite criticism, a slate of new scientific studies show that forensic firearms...

An Ancient Art Form Topples Assumptions about Mathematics

An Ancient Art Form Topples Assumptions about Mathematics

SIN Nov 27, 2023 0 28

The sand drawings of Vanuatu follow principles from a branch of mathematics know...

ECPR Could Prevent Many More Cardiac Arrest Deaths

ECPR Could Prevent Many More Cardiac Arrest Deaths

SIN Nov 27, 2023 0 1

A relatively new procedure, ECPR, improves on traditional CPR, but it may be dif...

Drones and AI Could Locate Land Mines in Ukraine

Drones and AI Could Locate Land Mines in Ukraine

SIN Nov 25, 2023 0 1

An AI model could speed up laborious and dangerous demining efforts

Are Children's Books Improving Representation?

Are Children's Books Improving Representation?

SIN Nov 25, 2023 0 2

Racial and gender disparities persist in award-winning kids’ literature despite ...

Newfound Hybrid Brain Cells Send Signals like Neurons Do

Newfound Hybrid Brain Cells Send Signals like Neurons Do

SIN Nov 24, 2023 0 1

Some astrocytes, thought to play only a supportive role in the brain, can commun...

Air-Conditioning Discovery Eliminates Harmful Gases

Air-Conditioning Discovery Eliminates Harmful Gases

SIN Nov 24, 2023 0 19

Heat pumps are ubiquitous in the form of air conditioners. Scientists just inven...

Machine Learning Creates a Massive Map of Smelly Molecules

Machine Learning Creates a Massive Map of Smelly Molecules

SIN Nov 24, 2023 0 2

Scientists can finally predict a chemical’s odor without having a human sniff it

The Members of This Reservation Learned They Live with Nuclear Weapons. Can Their Reality Ever Be the Same?

The Members of This Reservation Learned They Live with ...

SIN Nov 24, 2023 0 3

The Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara peoples are learning more about the missiles sil...

How to Buy Your First Telescope

How to Buy Your First Telescope

SIN Nov 24, 2023 0 2

This beginner’s guide to telescope basics will help make holiday shopping a litt...

Earth's Earliest Rocks Forged by Colliding Tectonic Plates

Earth's Earliest Rocks Forged by Colliding Tectonic Plates

SIN Nov 23, 2023 0 1

Our planet’s crust has been shifting and sliding for four billion years, a new s...

Southern Hemisphere Braces for Record-Breaking Heat

Southern Hemisphere Braces for Record-Breaking Heat

SIN Nov 23, 2023 0 4

Like the Northern Hemisphere before it, the Southern Hemisphere is set to be env...

Astronomy Is Facing an End Of The Era of Monster Telescopes

Astronomy Is Facing an End Of The Era of Monster Telesc...

SIN Nov 23, 2023 0 1

Money, engineering, and sheer geometry may mark an end of the line for building ...

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