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Trump rejects AI regulation, citing parallels with climate change, in U.N. address

Trump rejects AI regulation, citing parallels with clim...

SIN Sep 23, 2026 0 22

The president also said artificial intelligence should be rebranded as “super in...

RFK, Jr., is focusing attention on electromagnetic fields. Here’s what the science says about exposure

RFK, Jr., is focusing attention on electromagnetic fiel...

SIN Sep 22, 2026 0 31

The research into how electromagnetic waves and radio frequency radiation influe...

This year’s El Niño just broke another sobering record

This year’s El Niño just broke another sobering record

SIN Sep 22, 2026 0 27

“This is probably going to be the superlative El Niño event of our lives so far,...

Meet the ‘fire amoeba,’ a record-breaking survivor of extreme heat

Meet the ‘fire amoeba,’ a record-breaking survivor of e...

SIN Sep 22, 2026 0 26

Incendiamoeba cascadensis can replicate at 145° F, breaking the heat tolerance r...

Mathematician reveals the truth behind the Parthenon’s optical illusion

Mathematician reveals the truth behind the Parthenon’s ...

SIN Sep 22, 2026 0 25

The Parthenon sits atop a platform that is curved into a subtle hill shape that ...

NASA Goddard’s shrinking workforce could stifle future space missions, experts say

NASA Goddard’s shrinking workforce could stifle future ...

SIN Sep 22, 2026 0 22

2025 was a brutal year of budget cuts and workforce attrition at NASA’s Goddard ...

Mathematicians use AI to find mysterious symmetries, solving decades-old problem

Mathematicians use AI to find mysterious symmetries, so...

SIN Sep 22, 2026 0 29

In parallel, a race by amateurs and mathematicians has found all 25,000 cases of...

What a Trump order to put political appointees in charge of NIH funding would mean for science

What a Trump order to put political appointees in charg...

SIN Sep 22, 2026 0 23

Advocates and scientists warn that giving political appointees power over resear...

Did OpenAI solve the wrong Navier-Stokes problem?

Did OpenAI solve the wrong Navier-Stokes problem?

SIN Sep 22, 2026 0 30

OpenAI’s proof seems eligible for a $1-million prize—but only by using a controv...

COVID cases are on the rise—here’s how to stay healthy this winter

COVID cases are on the rise—here’s how to stay healthy ...

SIN Sep 21, 2026 0 24

The virus is currently most prevalent in California and the southern U.S., but e...

9 ‘boundaries’ keep Earth livable. We’ve breached 7 of them

9 ‘boundaries’ keep Earth livable. We’ve breached 7 of ...

SIN Sep 21, 2026 0 24

Earth’s annual checkup shows that we’re at increasing risk of moving away from t...

Space weapons, AI safety concerns and the EPA’s rollback of power plant emission rules

Space weapons, AI safety concerns and the EPA’s rollbac...

SIN Sep 21, 2026 0 28

From orbital weapons to AI risks and weaker emissions rules

Why human language may be intertwined with fire

Why human language may be intertwined with fire

SIN Sep 20, 2026 0 29

Understanding how human language evolved is one of the hardest problems in scien...

Could brain-inspired computers run on the same amount of power as a human brain?

Could brain-inspired computers run on the same amount o...

SIN Sep 19, 2026 0 24

The human brain uses about the same amount of wattage as a lightbulb

Surviving the summer

Surviving the summer

SIN Sep 19, 2026 0 24

Editor in Chief Nancy Shute discusses existential threats to humankind: extreme ...

What does OpenAI’s blockbuster mathematics proof mean for the real world?

What does OpenAI’s blockbuster mathematics proof mean f...

SIN Sep 19, 2026 0 24

OpenAI’s claimed proof of the Navier-Stokes problem is a mathematical tour de fo...

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