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AI’s Energy Demands Threaten a Nuclear Waste Nightmare

AI’s Energy Demands Threaten a Nuclear Waste Nightmare

SIN Jan 31, 2025 0 21

Reviving nuclear power plants to power AI threatens an avalanche of nuclear waste

How Many Planets Are in the Solar System?

How Many Planets Are in the Solar System?

SIN Jan 31, 2025 0 53

The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” a...

How Plane Accidents, Such as the Washington, D.C., Crash, Are Investigated

How Plane Accidents, Such as the Washington, D.C., Cras...

SIN Jan 31, 2025 0 24

The accident that resulted in a commercial airplane crashing into the Potomac ye...

The Science of Cynicism and the Transformative Psychological Power of Hope

The Science of Cynicism and the Transformative Psycholo...

SIN Jan 31, 2025 0 28

Giving in to cynicism makes us less trusting, less connected, and even less phys...

How Plane Accidents, like the DC Crash, Are Investigated

How Plane Accidents, like the DC Crash, Are Investigated

SIN Jan 31, 2025 0 37

The accident that resulted in a commercial airplane crashing into the Potomac ye...

Here’s How Quickly Could Polio Return to the U.S. without Vaccines

Here’s How Quickly Could Polio Return to the U.S. witho...

SIN Jan 31, 2025 0 42

Polio, a disease that can cause lifelong paralysis, has been eliminated from the...

Europe’s Extremely Large Telescope Faces a New Dire Threat

Europe’s Extremely Large Telescope Faces a New Dire Threat

SIN Jan 30, 2025 0 26

Observatories in Chile’s Atacama Desert, including the world’s largest optical t...

What You Need to Know About Venomous Caterpillars

What You Need to Know About Venomous Caterpillars

SIN Jan 30, 2025 0 38

These caterpillars carry a toxic chemical cocktail and Inquisition-like delivery...

Watch a Frog Walk on Water with High-Speed Belly Flops

Watch a Frog Walk on Water with High-Speed Belly Flops

SIN Jan 30, 2025 0 29

Tiny frogs seem to skim the water’s surface, but high-speed video reveals their ...

Recapping RFK, Jr's First Day of Confirmation Hearings in 5 Takeaways

Recapping RFK, Jr's First Day of Confirmation Hearings ...

SIN Jan 30, 2025 0 24

From Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s views on vaccines to Medicaid, here are some ways ...

What Trump’s First Days Say about Science in the New Administration

What Trump’s First Days Say about Science in the New Ad...

SIN Jan 30, 2025 0 35

Trump seems intent on freezing out professional scientists, especially those wit...

Trump Asks SpaceX to Return NASA’s ‘Stranded’ Astronauts to Earth ASAP

Trump Asks SpaceX to Return NASA’s ‘Stranded’ Astronaut...

SIN Jan 30, 2025 0 23

Despite a recent request from Trump, NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wil...

Trump Funding Freeze Could Set Disaster Recovery Back ‘for Years’

Trump Funding Freeze Could Set Disaster Recovery Back ‘...

SIN Jan 30, 2025 0 36

President Donald Trump’s sudden move to freeze federal grants is hitting states ...

NASA’s Latest Asteroid Sample Hints at Life’s Extraterrestrial Origins

NASA’s Latest Asteroid Sample Hints at Life’s Extraterr...

SIN Jan 30, 2025 0 21

Material retrieved from the asteroid Bennu by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft shows...

RFK, Jr., Confirmation Hearing Is Tomorrow. Here’s What to Know

RFK, Jr., Confirmation Hearing Is Tomorrow. Here’s What...

SIN Jan 30, 2025 0 24

Some health professionals have spoken out about President Donald Trump’s nominat...

Which Foods Are the Most Ultraprocessed? New System Ranks Them

Which Foods Are the Most Ultraprocessed? New System Ran...

SIN Jan 30, 2025 0 27

Scientists have created a ranking of grocery store items based on their degree o...

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