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How Heavy Is a Neutrino? Physicists Are Still Racing to Find Answers

How Heavy Is a Neutrino? Physicists Are Still Racing to...

SIN Mar 7, 2024 0 26

A new generation of lab experiments is aiming to weigh neutrinos with astonishin...

‘Ring of Fire’ Rocket Engines Put a New Spin on Spaceflight

‘Ring of Fire’ Rocket Engines Put a New Spin on Spacefl...

SIN Mar 7, 2024 0 49

Rotating detonation engines developed by NASA and others could spark a rocketry ...

Two Giant U.S. Telescopes Are Threatened by Federal Funding Cap

Two Giant U.S. Telescopes Are Threatened by Federal Fun...

SIN Mar 7, 2024 0 38

The Thirty Meter Telescope and Giant Magellan Telescope might need to compete fo...

Extreme Weather in U.S. Displaced 2.5 Million People Last Year

Extreme Weather in U.S. Displaced 2.5 Million People La...

SIN Mar 7, 2024 0 24

The Census Bureau found that among nearly 2.5 million people displaced last year...

Here's Why We Might Live in a Multiverse

Here's Why We Might Live in a Multiverse

SIN Mar 7, 2024 0 23

Several branches of modern physics, including quantum theory and cosmology, sugg...

We Need to Investigate UFOs. But Without the Distraction of Conspiracy Theories

We Need to Investigate UFOs. But Without the Distractio...

SIN Mar 7, 2024 0 52

A former government official calls for investigating unidentified anomalous phen...

What Are the Benefits of Sleeping Alone?

What Are the Benefits of Sleeping Alone?

SIN Mar 7, 2024 0 26

Sleep experts break down why some couples are choosing a “sleep divorce,” or opt...

Rare Brown Panda Mystery Solved after 40 Years

Rare Brown Panda Mystery Solved after 40 Years

SIN Mar 7, 2024 0 42

Chinese researchers have found the gene responsible for the brown-and-white fur ...

First Arrest of a Greenhouse Gas Smuggler Made in U.S.

First Arrest of a Greenhouse Gas Smuggler Made in U.S.

SIN Mar 7, 2024 0 25

A California resident faces charges under a 2020 law that seeks to curb powerful...

This Antipoaching Unit in Kenya is Saving Sea Turtles

This Antipoaching Unit in Kenya is Saving Sea Turtles

SIN Mar 7, 2024 0 24

Sammy Safari, a ranger in Kenya, stops poachers who hunt sea turtles—with educat...

These Electric Fish Detect Images of What Their Companions Are ‘Seeing’

These Electric Fish Detect Images of What Their Compani...

SIN Mar 7, 2024 0 31

Schools of brainiac fish share “images” of nearby objects and use their extraord...

What Plant Migrations Tell Us about Ourselves

What Plant Migrations Tell Us about Ourselves

SIN Mar 1, 2024 0 22

New insights into why animals play, how to hunt an asteroid, and more books out now

Is Marijuana Bad for Health? Here's What We Know So Far

Is Marijuana Bad for Health? Here's What We Know So Far

SIN Mar 1, 2024 0 22

Marijuana’s health impacts—good and bad—are coming into focus

Helpful Gut Bacteria Seem to Reduce Allergic Disease in Kids

Helpful Gut Bacteria Seem to Reduce Allergic Disease in...

SIN Mar 1, 2024 0 20

In babies, the right combo of gut bacteria might stave off later allergies, so s...

Readers Respond to the November 2023 Issue

Readers Respond to the November 2023 Issue

SIN Mar 1, 2024 0 29

Letters to the editors for the November 2023 issue of Scientific American

When Hurricanes Strike, Climate Change Dominates Social Media

When Hurricanes Strike, Climate Change Dominates Social...

SIN Mar 1, 2024 0 48

Tweets about climate change increase 80 percent when a hurricane hits and triple...

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