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Milky Way's 'Sleeping Giant' Black Hole Lurks Shockingly Close to Earth

Milky Way's 'Sleeping Giant' Black Hole Lurks Shockingl...

SIN Apr 18, 2024 0 22

A black hole weighing as much as 33 suns lurks a mere 2,000 light-years away fro...

How Jeff Koons’s Lunar Artwork Could Outlast All of Humanity

How Jeff Koons’s Lunar Artwork Could Outlast All of Hum...

SIN Apr 18, 2024 0 26

How long can humanity’s artifacts endure on the lunar surface? A new installatio...

NASA’s Artemis Astronauts Will Help Grow Crops on the Moon—And Much More

NASA’s Artemis Astronauts Will Help Grow Crops on the M...

SIN Apr 17, 2024 0 38

When astronauts return to the moon later this decade, they’ll bring along scienc...

AI Can Transform the Classroom Just Like the Calculator

AI Can Transform the Classroom Just Like the Calculator

SIN Apr 17, 2024 0 53

AI can better education, not threaten it, if we learn some lessons from the adop...

The Evolution of a Big, Ugly Cry

The Evolution of a Big, Ugly Cry

SIN Apr 17, 2024 0 47

Uncontrollable sobbing is uniquely human, and it may be our emotions running out...

We Need to Make Cities Less Car-Dependent

We Need to Make Cities Less Car-Dependent

SIN Apr 17, 2024 0 32

Reducing the need for car travel is better for health, the environment and publi...

How a New AI Model Helps Volcanic History Rise from the Ashes

How a New AI Model Helps Volcanic History Rise from the...

SIN Apr 17, 2024 0 27

Volcano detectives use artificial intelligence to sleuth out ancient secrets in ...

Overconfidence Can Blindside Science and Society Alike. Here's How Not to Get Fooled

Overconfidence Can Blindside Science and Society Alike....

SIN Apr 17, 2024 0 20

The tale of how the "backfire effect" ultimately, itself, backfired, and the "pr...

Online Age Verification Laws Could Do More Harm Than Good

Online Age Verification Laws Could Do More Harm Than Good

SIN Apr 17, 2024 0 48

More U.S. states are requiring online ID checks. A proposed French strategy aims...

How Schools Can Help Kids Reduce Racism and Prejudice

How Schools Can Help Kids Reduce Racism and Prejudice

SIN Apr 17, 2024 0 26

Making schools more welcoming for all can make for a fair and just society

Walks in Green Parks Mean Stronger Immune Systems and Better Mental Health

Walks in Green Parks Mean Stronger Immune Systems and B...

SIN Apr 17, 2024 0 21

Contact with nature improves physical and mental health, but greenery is not eas...

Why Feathers Are One of Evolution’s Cleverest Inventions

Why Feathers Are One of Evolution’s Cleverest Inventions

SIN Apr 17, 2024 0 21

Fossil and living birds reveal the dazzling biology of feathers

Neither Plants nor Animals, These Ocean Organisms Protect Their Ecosystems against Heat Waves

Neither Plants nor Animals, These Ocean Organisms Prote...

SIN Apr 17, 2024 0 20

Mixotrophs, which have characteristics of both animals and plants, could help bl...

In Matters of Scientific Debate, Follow the Houdini Rule

In Matters of Scientific Debate, Follow the Houdini Rule

SIN Apr 16, 2024 0 37

Scientific expertise is typically limited and specific. When evaluating scientif...

Contributors to Scientific American’s May 2024 Issue

Contributors to Scientific American’s May 2024 Issue

SIN Apr 16, 2024 0 20

Writers, artists, photographers and researchers share the stories behind the sto...

How Our Thoughts Shape the Way Spoken Words Evolve

How Our Thoughts Shape the Way Spoken Words Evolve

SIN Apr 16, 2024 0 28

What makes a word survive or go extinct?

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