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Earliest Merging Galaxies Discovered in New JWST Photos

Earliest Merging Galaxies Discovered in New JWST Photos

SIN Jul 11, 2023 0 27

Astronomers found two colliding galaxies dating back to less than 500 million ye...

Scientists Inch Toward Better Volcanic Eruption Forecasting

Scientists Inch Toward Better Volcanic Eruption Forecas...

SIN Jul 11, 2023 0 30

Satellites and other technologies are spurring a new revolution in volcanic acti...

Underground Climate Change Is Weakening Buildings in Slow Motion

Underground Climate Change Is Weakening Buildings in Sl...

SIN Jul 11, 2023 0 31

Hotspots beneath cities deform the ground, causing important infrastructure to c...

Do We Actually 'Hear' Silence?

Do We Actually 'Hear' Silence?

SIN Jul 11, 2023 0 23

An experiment tests whether our ears hear silent intervals in the same way they ...

School's Out. Should You Worry about the 'Summer Slide'?

School's Out. Should You Worry about the 'Summer Slide'?

SIN Jul 11, 2023 0 37

Kids don’t typically advance academically during the summer, but the research is...

U.S. Wildfires Threaten More People Than Ever

U.S. Wildfires Threaten More People Than Ever

SIN Jul 11, 2023 0 10

About eight in 10 people in the highest-risk fire areas of the U.S. live in West...

A Simple Replication Agreement Could Improve Trust in Science

A Simple Replication Agreement Could Improve Trust in S...

SIN Jul 10, 2023 0 29

A replicability crisis threatens computational science without shared code, data...

School's Out. Should You Worry About the 'Summer Slide'?

School's Out. Should You Worry About the 'Summer Slide'?

SIN Jul 10, 2023 0 27

Kids don’t typically advance academically during the summer, but the research is...

Just like People, Orangutans Get Smoker's Voice

Just like People, Orangutans Get Smoker's Voice

SIN Jul 10, 2023 0 30

New research has discovered that wildfire smoke hurts these primates’ voice—and ...

I Survived a Weekend at Biosphere 2 Pretending to Be in Space

I Survived a Weekend at Biosphere 2 Pretending to Be in...

SIN Jul 10, 2023 0 26

At a stay in Biosphere 2, I went in skeptical but learned to understand why anal...

Even Lawyers Don't Understand Legalese, New Study Shows

Even Lawyers Don't Understand Legalese, New Study Shows

SIN Jul 10, 2023 0 7

Lawyers and nonlawyers alike prefer contracts written in plain English

A Tight Labor Market Could Quell Poverty, but Eligibility Rules Threaten Those Gains

A Tight Labor Market Could Quell Poverty, but Eligibili...

SIN Jul 8, 2023 0 5

A tight labor market offers financial hope to many low-income workers but only i...

A Neurologist Answers Questions Patients Might Have about the New Alzheimer's Drug Lecanemab

A Neurologist Answers Questions Patients Might Have abo...

SIN Jul 8, 2023 0 25

What a patient and family members can expect from the recently approved drug lec...

How to Destroy 'Forever Chemicals'

How to Destroy 'Forever Chemicals'

SIN Jul 8, 2023 0 4

Health-damaging PFASs are nearly impossible to break down—but a new hot-water te...

Supercomputer Will Help Decide whether to Block the Sun

Supercomputer Will Help Decide whether to Block the Sun

SIN Jul 8, 2023 0 3

A new supercomputer is helping climate scientists determine whether injecting hu...

CDC to Reduce Funding for States' Child Vaccination Programs

CDC to Reduce Funding for States' Child Vaccination Pro...

SIN Jul 8, 2023 0 24

States will get less funding for childhood vaccines, a move linked to the recent...

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