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U.S. Heat Deaths Will Soar as the Climate Crisis Worsens

U.S. Heat Deaths Will Soar as the Climate Crisis Worsens

SIN Sep 28, 2023 0 23

With three degrees Celsius of warming, U.S. deaths during extreme temperatures c...

Dead Trees and a Mysterious Cosmic Explosion Reveal Bigger Quake Risk for Seattle

Dead Trees and a Mysterious Cosmic Explosion Reveal Big...

SIN Sep 28, 2023 0 5

Washington State’s Puget Sound could face previously unknown earthquake risks, a...

Pangaea Ultima, the Next Supercontinent, May Doom Mammals to Far-Future Extinction

Pangaea Ultima, the Next Supercontinent, May Doom Mamma...

SIN Sep 28, 2023 0 2

250 million years from now, the emergence of a new supercontinent could render m...

What Happens if You Drop Antimatter? New Gravitational Test Sees First Fall

What Happens if You Drop Antimatter? New Gravitational ...

SIN Sep 27, 2023 0 26

In theory, physicists knew that antimatter should behave just like matter under ...

To Move Fast, Quantum Maze Solvers Must Forget the Past

To Move Fast, Quantum Maze Solvers Must Forget the Past

SIN Sep 27, 2023 0 10

Quantum algorithms can find their way out of mazes exponentially faster than cla...

The Chemistry behind Bourbon

The Chemistry behind Bourbon

SIN Sep 27, 2023 0 1

How does bourbon, “America’s spirit,” get its distinctive taste and color?

Song of the Stars, Part 2: Seeing in the Dark

Song of the Stars, Part 2: Seeing in the Dark

SIN Sep 27, 2023 0 2

In 2014, a blind astronomer “sonified” the universe’s most explosive event: a ga...

Hoʻoleilana, a Billion-Light-Year-Wide Bubble of Galaxies, Astounds Astronomers

Hoʻoleilana, a Billion-Light-Year-Wide Bubble of Galaxi...

SIN Sep 27, 2023 0 3

This enormous structure could help explain processes close to the dawn of time—o...

The Complete Human Y Chromosome Marks an Opportunity to Move Away from Stigma

The Complete Human Y Chromosome Marks an Opportunity to...

SIN Sep 27, 2023 0 17

The Y chromosome was once used to label people as criminal. A new complete Y chr...

Streetlights Are Mysteriously Turning Purple. Here's Why

Streetlights Are Mysteriously Turning Purple. Here's Why

SIN Sep 27, 2023 0 2

Newly purple streetlights might seem innocuous, but they could affect driver and...

Your Brain Looks for 'Winning Streaks' Everywhere--Here's Why

Your Brain Looks for 'Winning Streaks' Everywhere--Here...

SIN Sep 27, 2023 0 3

This is why we misinterpret life’s weird and wonderful random events

The Secret to Beetles' Unfathomable Diversity

The Secret to Beetles' Unfathomable Diversity

SIN Sep 27, 2023 0 4

The evolution of a chemical defense gland allowed the most diverse group of beet...

Flesh-Eating Bacteria Infections Are on the Rise in the U.S. Here's How to Stay Safe

Flesh-Eating Bacteria Infections Are on the Rise in the...

SIN Sep 27, 2023 0 4

Here’s why the CDC is so concerned about deadly flesh-eating bacteria and ways t...

Your Body Odor Could Be Used to Track Your Movements or Health

Your Body Odor Could Be Used to Track Your Movements or...

SIN Sep 27, 2023 0 3

Human scent signatures could one day be collected at places like crime scenes an...

The Loss of Dark Skies Is So Painful, Astronomers Coined a New Term for It

The Loss of Dark Skies Is So Painful, Astronomers Coine...

SIN Sep 26, 2023 0 2

Astronomers have a new term to describe the pain associated with the loss of acc...

Limiting Global Warming to 1.5 Degrees C 'Remains Possible,' Energy Experts Say

Limiting Global Warming to 1.5 Degrees C 'Remains Possi...

SIN Sep 26, 2023 0 17

Governments must “separate climate from geopolitics” and work together to triple...

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