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How to Grieve Our Changing Planet

How to Grieve Our Changing Planet

SIN Mar 19, 2024 0 37

A new book on the perils of human exceptionalism

Families Find Ways to Protect Their LGBTQ Kids from Serious Harm—Physical and Mental—after a Flood of Discriminatory Laws

Families Find Ways to Protect Their LGBTQ Kids from Ser...

SIN Mar 19, 2024 0 43

Hostility toward LGBTQ kids, enshrined in hundreds of new bills, has put familie...

Quantum Weirdness in New Strange Metals Bends the Rules of Physics

Quantum Weirdness in New Strange Metals Bends the Rules...

SIN Mar 19, 2024 0 32

Electrons swarm in a soup of quantum entanglement in a new class of materials ca...

How the Strange Relationship between Chickens and Humans Shaped Our World

How the Strange Relationship between Chickens and Human...

SIN Mar 19, 2024 0 25

Chicken takeovers, the missing histories of silk, a dazzling memoir of gravity, ...

Poem: ‘SnapShot, 1968’

Poem: ‘SnapShot, 1968’

SIN Mar 19, 2024 0 42

Science in meter and verse

The God Chatbots Changing Religious Inquiry

The God Chatbots Changing Religious Inquiry

SIN Mar 19, 2024 0 26

Large language models trained on religious texts claim to offer spiritual insigh...

Why Cicadas Power Spray Their Pee

Why Cicadas Power Spray Their Pee

SIN Mar 19, 2024 0 28

Thirsty cicadas produce more powerful jets of urine than some mammals

How Wild Animals Actually Responded to Our COVID Lockdowns

How Wild Animals Actually Responded to Our COVID Lockdowns

SIN Mar 19, 2024 0 28

The COVID lockdowns and the subsequent reemergence of humans had some surprising...

Florida’s Surgeon General Shows the Danger of Politicizing of Medicine

Florida’s Surgeon General Shows the Danger of Politiciz...

SIN Mar 19, 2024 0 17

Florida state surgeon general Joseph Ladapo’s rejection of evidence-based policy...

As Extreme Heat and Smoke Threaten U.S. Farmworkers, Federal Health Leaders Evaluate Protections

As Extreme Heat and Smoke Threaten U.S. Farmworkers, Fe...

SIN Mar 19, 2024 0 21

Leaders of the Department of Health and Human Services will meet throughout the ...

People with ‘Havana Syndrome’ Show No Brain Damage or Medical Illness

People with ‘Havana Syndrome’ Show No Brain Damage or M...

SIN Mar 19, 2024 0 40

The largest and most comprehensive studies of ‘Havana Syndrome’ point to stress ...

Why People Aged 65 and Older Should Get a Spring COVID Vaccine

Why People Aged 65 and Older Should Get a Spring COVID ...

SIN Mar 19, 2024 0 28

Older people are particularly vulnerable to COVID and should get another vaccine...

Want to Work for the American Climate Corps? Applications Open Next Month

Want to Work for the American Climate Corps? Applicatio...

SIN Mar 19, 2024 0 22

Biden is calling on Congress for an additional $8 billion in funding for the Ame...

The Great Debate: Could We Ever Travel through Time?

The Great Debate: Could We Ever Travel through Time?

SIN Mar 18, 2024 0 21

Our space and physics editors go head-to-head over a classic mind-bending question.

Why You Should Listen when Your Child Cries ‘Not Fair!’

Why You Should Listen when Your Child Cries ‘Not Fair!’

SIN Mar 18, 2024 0 41

Children need patient adults and lots of practice to understand fairness, justic...

Too Much Trust in AI Poses Unexpected Threats to the Scientific Process

Too Much Trust in AI Poses Unexpected Threats to the Sc...

SIN Mar 18, 2024 0 27

It’s vital to “keep humans in the loop” to avoid humanizing machine-learning mod...

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