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Before Trump, before Agnew, Hate Mail Reveals Long-Simmering Hostility to Journalists

Before Trump, before Agnew, Hate Mail Reveals Long-Simm...

SIN Oct 24, 2023 0 19

While contempt for news organizations is intense in the wake of Trump, archived ...

Why Settling Mars Is a Terrible Idea

Why Settling Mars Is a Terrible Idea

SIN Oct 24, 2023 0 3

The downsides of spacefaring, infiltrating Florida’s gator poachers, and more bo...

Mouse Mummies Show Life Persists in Mars-like Environment

Mouse Mummies Show Life Persists in Mars-like Environment

SIN Oct 24, 2023 0 2

Tiny mice found mummified at the summits of Andean volcanoes appear to be living...

What It Takes to Grow Crystals in Space

What It Takes to Grow Crystals in Space

SIN Oct 24, 2023 0 2

Researcher Debbie G. Senesky builds materials that can work on Venus

What Went Wrong with a Highly Publicized COVID Mask Analysis?

What Went Wrong with a Highly Publicized COVID Mask Ana...

SIN Oct 21, 2023 0 2

The Cochrane Library, a trusted source of health information, misled the public ...

Poems: 'Fractal' and 'In Practice'

Poems: 'Fractal' and 'In Practice'

SIN Oct 21, 2023 0 4

Science in meter and verse

Readers Respond to the June 2023 Issue

Readers Respond to the June 2023 Issue

SIN Oct 21, 2023 0 23

Letters to the editors for the June 2023 issue of Scientific American

Sleeping People Can Follow Simple Spoken Commands

Sleeping People Can Follow Simple Spoken Commands

SIN Oct 21, 2023 0 19

A new study finds that we respond to simple commands, such as smiling or frownin...

Some Parents Show Their Kids They Care With a Corpse

Some Parents Show Their Kids They Care With a Corpse

SIN Oct 21, 2023 0 2

If you’re a silphid beetle, a dead body is all your children really want, and it...

JWST Detects Quartz Crystals in an Exoplanet's Atmosphere

JWST Detects Quartz Crystals in an Exoplanet's Atmosphere

SIN Oct 21, 2023 0 17

Astronomers have found high-altitude clouds formed from quartz crystals on the g...

Can We Save Every Species from Extinction?

Can We Save Every Species from Extinction?

SIN Oct 20, 2023 0 2

The Endangered Species Act requires that every U.S. plant and animal be saved fr...

Scientists Explore Pulling Potent Methane Out of the Air to Curb Warming

Scientists Explore Pulling Potent Methane Out of the Ai...

SIN Oct 20, 2023 0 19

Methane traps more heat in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide, but pulling it fr...

See How Humans around the World Spend the 24 Hours in a Day

See How Humans around the World Spend the 24 Hours in a...

SIN Oct 20, 2023 0 21

A new study calculated the average “global human day,” revealing which activitie...

How to Save Greenland's Massive Ice Sheet

How to Save Greenland's Massive Ice Sheet

SIN Oct 20, 2023 0 3

The Greenland Ice Sheet could experience runaway melting if the world overshoots...

The Evolutionary Reasons We Are Drawn to Horror Movies and Haunted Houses

The Evolutionary Reasons We Are Drawn to Horror Movies ...

SIN Oct 20, 2023 0 2

Scary play lets people—and other animals—rehearse coping skills for disturbing c...

Stunning Images Reveal Rogue Planets of the Orion Nebula

Stunning Images Reveal Rogue Planets of the Orion Nebula

SIN Oct 20, 2023 0 2

The James Webb Space Telescope’s infrared gaze sheds new light on the Orion nebu...

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