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Addiction Risk Shows up in Children’s Brain Scans before Drug Use Starts

Addiction Risk Shows up in Children’s Brain Scans befor...

SIN Jul 7, 2025 0 60

Brain differences in children and teens who experiment with drugs early show up ...

Astronaut Matthew Dominick Speaks to Scientific American, Live from the International Space Station

Astronaut Matthew Dominick Speaks to Scientific America...

SIN Jul 7, 2025 0 53

We spoke with NASA astronaut Matthew Dominick in an exclusive, first-ever interv...

Pulsing Magma in Earth’s Mantle Drives Tectonic Plates Tearing Africa Apart

Pulsing Magma in Earth’s Mantle Drives Tectonic Plates ...

SIN Jul 7, 2025 0 54

Chemical fingerprints from volcanic rock offer hints of what’s happening in the ...

Math’s Block-Stacking Problem Has a Preposterous Solution

Math’s Block-Stacking Problem Has a Preposterous Solution

SIN Jul 6, 2025 0 49

In principle, this impossible math allows for a glue-free bridge of stacked bloc...

Workers Have Died in Extreme Heat as OSHA Has Debated Protections

Workers Have Died in Extreme Heat as OSHA Has Debated P...

SIN Jul 4, 2025 0 50

The June heat dome contributed to the deaths of at least three people. They have...

Human Gut Bacteria Can Gather Up PFAS ‘Forever Chemicals’

Human Gut Bacteria Can Gather Up PFAS ‘Forever Chemicals’

SIN Jul 4, 2025 0 77

When tested on their own and in mice, these bacterial strains from the human mic...

Climate Change’s Fingerprints Came Early, a Thought Experiment Reveals

Climate Change’s Fingerprints Came Early, a Thought Exp...

SIN Jul 4, 2025 0 54

Climate change left its signature on the atmosphere early in the industrial revo...

Can Life Survive the Death of the Sun?

Can Life Survive the Death of the Sun?

SIN Jul 4, 2025 0 72

The future is bright—too bright—for life as we know it once the sun transforms i...

Proof That Adult Brains Make New Neurons Settles Scientific Controversy

Proof That Adult Brains Make New Neurons Settles Scient...

SIN Jul 4, 2025 0 62

Adult brains grow new neurons, and scientists have finally pinpointed where they...

First Human Genome from Ancient Egypt Sequenced from 4,800-Year-Old Teeth

First Human Genome from Ancient Egypt Sequenced from 4,...

SIN Jul 4, 2025 0 69

Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finall...

How Massive Medicaid Cuts Will Harm People’s Health

How Massive Medicaid Cuts Will Harm People’s Health

SIN Jul 4, 2025 0 60

Evidence shows that Medicaid improves people’s health and is particularly vital ...

New Interstellar Object Comet 3I/ATLAS—What We Know So Far as It Zips through the Solar System

New Interstellar Object Comet 3I/ATLAS—What We Know So ...

SIN Jul 4, 2025 0 55

All eyes are on Comet 3I/ATLAS as astronomers worldwide chase the exotic ice bal...

Record-Breaking Results Bring Fusion Power Closer to Reality

Record-Breaking Results Bring Fusion Power Closer to Re...

SIN Jul 3, 2025 0 66

Breakthroughs from two rival experiments, Germany’s Wendelstein 7-X and the Join...

New Interstellar Object Comet 3I/Atlas—What We Know So Far as It Zips through the Solar System

New Interstellar Object Comet 3I/Atlas—What We Know So ...

SIN Jul 3, 2025 0 62

All eyes are on Comet 3I/Atlas as astronomers worldwide chase the exotic ice bal...

Republicans’ One Big Beautiful Bill Act Will Raise U.S. Climate Emissions

Republicans’ One Big Beautiful Bill Act Will Raise U.S....

SIN Jul 3, 2025 0 49

Four research firms project that the Republicans’ One Big Beautiful Bill Act wil...

How Trump’s Federal Funding Cuts Are Hurting Early-Career Researchers and American Health

How Trump’s Federal Funding Cuts Are Hurting Early-Care...

SIN Jul 3, 2025 0 44

Canceled grants and slashed budgets are disproportionately affecting junior heal...

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