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How the Math of Cracks Can Make Planes, Bridges and Dams Safer

How the Math of Cracks Can Make Planes, Bridges and Dam...

SIN Jun 25, 2024 0 25

Better predictions of how cracks grow can make machines and structures more reli...

People Who Are Fat and Healthy May Hold Keys to Understanding Obesity

People Who Are Fat and Healthy May Hold Keys to Underst...

SIN Jun 25, 2024 0 20

“Heavy and healthy” can be a rare or common condition. But either way it may sig...

Poem: ‘An Ars Poetica’

Poem: ‘An Ars Poetica’

SIN Jun 25, 2024 0 55

Science in meter and verse

New Understandings of Food, Fat, Fitness and Evolution

New Understandings of Food, Fat, Fitness and Evolution

SIN Jun 25, 2024 0 17

Quantum observers, migrating mangroves, the deep history of an asteroid and unde...

How to Stay Safe during Lightning Storms

How to Stay Safe during Lightning Storms

SIN Jun 25, 2024 0 25

Each year in the U.S. lightning strikes 37 million times and kills 21 people on ...

How Earth Went from a Sterile Rock to a Lush, Living Planet

How Earth Went from a Sterile Rock to a Lush, Living Pl...

SIN Jun 25, 2024 0 20

From microbes to mammoths, life has transformed Earth into one big living system...

What Does Artificial General Intelligence Actually Mean?

What Does Artificial General Intelligence Actually Mean?

SIN Jun 25, 2024 0 18

Claims of artificial general intelligence are increasingly common. But can anyon...

The Paris Olympics Face Bacterial Challenges, and Microplastics Are Found in Penis Tissues

The Paris Olympics Face Bacterial Challenges, and Micro...

SIN Jun 25, 2024 0 54

Microplastics are everywhere, Olympic ambitions for the Seine River are complica...

Learning from Great Tits' Urban Adaptability

Learning from Great Tits' Urban Adaptability

SIN Jun 25, 2024 0 21

One of Europe’s most common birds, the great tit, show an amazing adaptability t...

Giant Viruses Discovered in Arctic Ice Could Slow Sea-Level Rise

Giant Viruses Discovered in Arctic Ice Could Slow Sea-L...

SIN Jun 25, 2024 0 23

Scientists recently discovered giant viruses infecting algal blooms that dot the...

What a Study on Ultraprocessed Fake Meat and Heart Disease Really Found

What a Study on Ultraprocessed Fake Meat and Heart Dise...

SIN Jun 25, 2024 0 20

A recent study found that eating ultraprocessed plant-based foods was linked to ...

This 1920s Debate Explains Why So Many Americans Hate the News Media

This 1920s Debate Explains Why So Many Americans Hate t...

SIN Jun 24, 2024 0 22

Brawls over the honesty of online and cable news today owe their origins to Worl...

How Older Adults Can Exercise to Reduce Their Risk of Dangerous Falls

How Older Adults Can Exercise to Reduce Their Risk of D...

SIN Jun 24, 2024 0 26

Tai Chi, yoga, water exercises and other low-impact workouts may help prevent se...

‘There Are No Such Things as Gendered Emotions

‘There Are No Such Things as Gendered Emotions

SIN Jun 24, 2024 0 17

We still expect children to express emotions in gendered ways. It’s harmful and ...

The Hidden Story of Trailblazing Black Astronauts at NASA

The Hidden Story of Trailblazing Black Astronauts at NASA

SIN Jun 24, 2024 0 21

A new film details the history of Ed Dwight and NASA’s first Black astronaut can...

The Best Mosquito Repellents, according to Science

The Best Mosquito Repellents, according to Science

SIN Jun 24, 2024 0 23

Mosquito experts break down how to choose and use the best mosquito repellents

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