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How Do Babies Realize They Can Influence the World?

How Do Babies Realize They Can Influence the World?

SIN Mar 22, 2024 0 28

An infant’s aha! moment may hold secrets to the origins of agency

Earth Has More Than One Moon

Earth Has More Than One Moon

SIN Mar 22, 2024 0 25

Quirks of orbital mechanics make a cadre of sun-orbiting asteroids appear to be ...

How Artificial Intelligence Helped Write this Award-Winning Song

How Artificial Intelligence Helped Write this Award-Win...

SIN Mar 22, 2024 0 21

Machine-learning algorithms allow composers to create all-new instruments.

Babies Smell Sweet, but Teenagers Stink. Is Evolution the Explanation?

Babies Smell Sweet, but Teenagers Stink. Is Evolution t...

SIN Mar 22, 2024 0 17

Carboxylic acids make teens give off a pungent olfactory mix redolent of cheese,...

The Cognitive Neuroscientist Who Helped Unravel the Mysteries of Language

The Cognitive Neuroscientist Who Helped Unravel the Mys...

SIN Mar 22, 2024 0 31

Ursula Bellugi was fixated on how we learn language. Her groundbreaking research...

NASA Slashes Budget for Chandra, Its Greatest X-ray Observatory

NASA Slashes Budget for Chandra, Its Greatest X-ray Obs...

SIN Mar 22, 2024 0 19

The Chandra X-ray Observatory faces a premature end under new funding cuts propo...

Mathematician Who Tamed Randomness Wins Abel Prize

Mathematician Who Tamed Randomness Wins Abel Prize

SIN Mar 22, 2024 0 39

Michel Talagrand innovative work has allowed others to tackle problems involving...

A Completely New Approach to Crops Could Boost Nutrition across Africa

A Completely New Approach to Crops Could Boost Nutritio...

SIN Mar 21, 2024 0 24

Cary Fowler, the U.S. State Department’s leading figure on global hunger, explai...

Kitten Season Is Out of Control. Are Warmer Winters to Blame?

Kitten Season Is Out of Control. Are Warmer Winters to ...

SIN Mar 21, 2024 0 19

The summer “kitten season” is starting earlier and lasting longer, which is bad ...

Planet-Eating Stars Are Surprisingly Common, New Study Suggests

Planet-Eating Stars Are Surprisingly Common, New Study ...

SIN Mar 20, 2024 0 34

At least one in a dozen binary stars shows signs of eating their planets

Female Mosquitoes Follow Each Other to Breeding Sites

Female Mosquitoes Follow Each Other to Breeding Sites

SIN Mar 20, 2024 0 37

Aedes aegypti mosquitoes use social cues to decide where to lay their eggs, scie...

Contributors to Scientific American’s April 2024 Issue

Contributors to Scientific American’s April 2024 Issue

SIN Mar 20, 2024 0 18

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

Stunning Comet Spiral Offers Glimpse of Icy Snowball at Its Core

Stunning Comet Spiral Offers Glimpse of Icy Snowball at...

SIN Mar 20, 2024 0 28

Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks is hiding a strange spiral in its icy heart—and it may tel...

Why Short Naps Are Good for You

Why Short Naps Are Good for You

SIN Mar 20, 2024 0 34

A quick nap can boost your memory, your mood and even your creativity

61 Unexpected PFAS ‘Forever Chemicals’ Found in Food Packaging

61 Unexpected PFAS ‘Forever Chemicals’ Found in Food Pa...

SIN Mar 20, 2024 0 18

A global study identified 61 PFAS chemicals in food packaging that are not autho...

Wegovy Is First Weight-Loss Drug Approved for Heart Diseases

Wegovy Is First Weight-Loss Drug Approved for Heart Dis...

SIN Mar 20, 2024 0 50

The FDA recently approved semaglutide (Wegovy) for preventing serious heart cond...

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