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Cells Discovered Making 'Dark Oxygen' Underground

Cells Discovered Making 'Dark Oxygen' Underground

SIN Aug 22, 2023 0 2

A chemical trick for making oxygen can sustain whole underground ecosystems

Turtle Shells Record Nuclear History

Turtle Shells Record Nuclear History

SIN Aug 22, 2023 0 4

Minuscule amounts of uranium detected in the shells of turtles point to a new wa...

Can Dogs Use Language?

Can Dogs Use Language?

SIN Aug 22, 2023 0 2

The “button dogs” of TikTok seem to be learning human words. What’s really going...

Fountains of Diamonds Erupt as Supercontinents Break Up

Fountains of Diamonds Erupt as Supercontinents Break Up

SIN Aug 22, 2023 0 1

Researchers have discovered a pattern where diamonds spew from deep beneath Eart...

Why a Highly Mutated Coronavirus Variant Has Scientists on Alert

Why a Highly Mutated Coronavirus Variant Has Scientists...

SIN Aug 22, 2023 0 21

Research is under way to determine whether the mutation-laden lineage BA.2.86 is...

Disappearing Glaciers Expose Vast New Ecosystems That Need Protection

Disappearing Glaciers Expose Vast New Ecosystems That N...

SIN Aug 21, 2023 0 3

New habitats that are emerging as mountain glaciers melt away represent huge eco...

The Dangers of Wildfire Smoke

The Dangers of Wildfire Smoke

SIN Aug 21, 2023 0 3

Climate change is making wildfires more likely and more intense, exposing more p...

Worm Brains, Decoded like Never Before, Could Shed Light on Our Own Mind

Worm Brains, Decoded like Never Before, Could Shed Ligh...

SIN Aug 21, 2023 0 3

One of the most in-depth catalogs of an animal’s brain-body connections ever com...

Russia's Luna-25 Lander Has Crashed into the Moon

Russia's Luna-25 Lander Has Crashed into the Moon

SIN Aug 21, 2023 0 18

Luna-25, Russia's first moon mission in nearly a half-century, was the vanguard ...

Getting Closer to Eliminating the Wild Poliovirus

Getting Closer to Eliminating the Wild Poliovirus

SIN Aug 21, 2023 0 21

Global efforts to eradicate the poliovirus were recently described as unsuccessf...

Using Human-Sized Microphones and Hay Bales, They Unlocked the Mysteries of Bird Migration

Using Human-Sized Microphones and Hay Bales, They Unloc...

SIN Aug 21, 2023 0 22

For thousands of years, no one truly knew how birds migrated—that is until a few...

The Fast, Furious and Brutally Short Life of an African Male Lion

The Fast, Furious and Brutally Short Life of an African...

SIN Aug 21, 2023 0 4

From the moment a male lion is born it faces a gauntlet of challenges, ranging f...

A Heroic Effort Aims to Save Florida's Coral Reefs from Record Heat

A Heroic Effort Aims to Save Florida's Coral Reefs from...

SIN Aug 20, 2023 0 2

As waters off Florida hit abnormally hot temperatures, volunteer divers are resc...

Lessons from Antarctica about Raising Kids in the Climate Crisis

Lessons from Antarctica about Raising Kids in the Clima...

SIN Aug 20, 2023 0 1

Horror stories from Indigenous writers, a plea for better road ecology, and more...

Science News Briefs from around the World: September 2023

Science News Briefs from around the World: September 2023

SIN Aug 19, 2023 0 3

Ancient poop pathogens in Israel, Peru’s millennia-old El Niño preparations, a h...

Will Scientists Ever Find a Theory of Everything?

Will Scientists Ever Find a Theory of Everything?

SIN Aug 19, 2023 0 4

Physicists are on an ever urgent quest to find a fuller understanding of what ma...

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