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Measles, Whooping Cough, the Laschamp Event and a Colossal Squid

Measles, Whooping Cough, the Laschamp Event and a Colos...

SIN Apr 21, 2025 0 44

This week’s news roundup covers measles and whooping cough cases, evidence of a ...

Why GLP-1 Weight-Loss Drugs Are Hard to Make into Pills

Why GLP-1 Weight-Loss Drugs Are Hard to Make into Pills

SIN Apr 21, 2025 0 55

Some experts say oral versions of popular weight-loss drugs such as Wegovy could...

How THC, the Psychoactive Compound in Weed, Gets You High

How THC, the Psychoactive Compound in Weed, Gets You High

SIN Apr 19, 2025 0 66

Most people know weed gets you high—but do you know how THC actually does it?

Lifesaving Alzheimer’s Research Delayed by Trump Funding Cuts

Lifesaving Alzheimer’s Research Delayed by Trump Fundin...

SIN Apr 19, 2025 0 34

The Trump administration is freezing, delaying and revoking funding for dementia...

Researchers Discover New Color That’s Impossible to See without Lasering Your Retinas

Researchers Discover New Color That’s Impossible to See...

SIN Apr 19, 2025 0 34

Researchers discover a new color outside the range of human color vision, but yo...

Trump Tariffs Hit Oil Companies despite Administration‘s Support for Fossil Fuels

Trump Tariffs Hit Oil Companies despite Administration‘...

SIN Apr 19, 2025 0 62

Liberty Energy, founded by Secretary of Energy Chris Wright, reports falling pr...

Trump Administration's Science Cuts Come for NSF Funding

Trump Administration's Science Cuts Come for NSF Funding

SIN Apr 19, 2025 0 47

The National Science Foundation, which funds key science and engineering researc...

Microplastics Make It into Your Food through Plant Leaves

Microplastics Make It into Your Food through Plant Leaves

SIN Apr 19, 2025 0 49

New evidence shows plant leaves absorb airborne microplastics, a previously over...

What Causes Severe Morning Sickness, and What Treatments Exist?

What Causes Severe Morning Sickness, and What Treatment...

SIN Apr 18, 2025 0 41

Scientists discovered two genes involved in hyperemesis gravidarum, a condition ...

NASA’s Next Major Space Telescope Is Ready to Launch. Trump Wants to Kill It and Other Vital Science

NASA’s Next Major Space Telescope Is Ready to Launch. T...

SIN Apr 18, 2025 0 49

Amid harsh cuts, the Trump administration has proposed canceling the nearly read...

What Are ORCs? Astronomers Still Don’t Know

What Are ORCs? Astronomers Still Don’t Know

SIN Apr 18, 2025 0 47

ORCs—odd radio circles—are one of the weirdest recent discoveries in the heavens...

Scientific American Editor Gary Stix Talks about His 35 Years of Editing the Magazine

Scientific American Editor Gary Stix Talks about His 35...

SIN Apr 18, 2025 0 43

Hear takeaways from 35 years at Scientific American from Gary Stix, our recently...

What Is Dimethyl Sulfide, the Chemical Potentially Found on Exoplanet K2-18 b?

What Is Dimethyl Sulfide, the Chemical Potentially Foun...

SIN Apr 18, 2025 0 60

Dimethyl sulfide is in the news after NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope may have...

Why Astronomers Doubt Claims That Planet K2-18 b Finding Means Alien Life

Why Astronomers Doubt Claims That Planet K2-18 b Findin...

SIN Apr 18, 2025 0 44

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope detected an intriguing compound in the atmosph...

Gutting NIOSH Endangers Every U.S. Worker

Gutting NIOSH Endangers Every U.S. Worker

SIN Apr 18, 2025 0 42

I was fired from my job as a scientist at the only federal agency dedicated to t...

Better Refrigerators, Washing Machines, Furniture and Tires Are Mandated for Europe’s Circular Economy

Better Refrigerators, Washing Machines, Furniture and T...

SIN Apr 17, 2025 0 40

New European Union regulations will require products that last longer and are ea...

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