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Meet the New Autocrats Who Dismantle Democracies from Within

Meet the New Autocrats Who Dismantle Democracies from W...

SIN Sep 23, 2024 0 4

The new interconnected breed of autocrats gains and retains power by deception, ...

Uterus Transplants, Once Highly Experimental, Have Led to Dozens of Births

Uterus Transplants, Once Highly Experimental, Have Led ...

SIN Sep 23, 2024 0 4

Uterus transplants are becoming more common, opening up the possibility of pregn...

How Pregnancy Changes the Brain, and How Lizards Make DIY Scuba Gear

How Pregnancy Changes the Brain, and How Lizards Make D...

SIN Sep 23, 2024 0 6

This week’s news roundup explores how the brain is affected by pregnancy, the wa...

Moral Judgments May Shift with the Seasons

Moral Judgments May Shift with the Seasons

SIN Sep 20, 2024 0 3

Certain values carry more weight in spring and autumn than in summer and winter

Discover Math’s Elegance and Power with Drag Queen Kyne Santos

Discover Math’s Elegance and Power with Drag Queen Kyne...

SIN Sep 20, 2024 0 4

Mathematics communicator and drag queen Kyne will help you discover the beauty a...

Why Do So Many Tiny Asteroids Have Moons?

Why Do So Many Tiny Asteroids Have Moons?

SIN Sep 20, 2024 0 4

Scientists are putting a new spin on the creation of binary asteroids

Obesity-Drug Pioneers Win Prestigious Lasker Award for Medical Science

Obesity-Drug Pioneers Win Prestigious Lasker Award for ...

SIN Sep 20, 2024 0 4

Three scientists are honored for developing a class of blockbuster weight-loss d...

Was Thalidomide Safe? Frances Oldham Kelsey Was Not Convinced

Was Thalidomide Safe? Frances Oldham Kelsey Was Not Con...

SIN Sep 19, 2024 0 3

In the U.S. in the early 1960s the distributor of a thalidomide drug was impatie...

Ultra-Precise Particle Measurement Narrows Pathway to ‘New Physics’

Ultra-Precise Particle Measurement Narrows Pathway to ‘...

SIN Sep 19, 2024 0 4

A long-awaited calculation of the W boson’s mass agrees with theory, contradicti...

Here’s What the ‘Manosphere’ Gets Wrong about Cuckoldry

Here’s What the ‘Manosphere’ Gets Wrong about Cuckoldry

SIN Sep 19, 2024 0 5

In online forums the term “cuck” has become synonymous with “sucker” and “loser....

This Elegant Math Problem Could Help You Make the Best Choice in House-Hunting and Even Love

This Elegant Math Problem Could Help You Make the Best ...

SIN Sep 19, 2024 0 5

Math’s “best-choice problem” could help humans become better decision-makers, at...

The Strange Story of the Algorithm Meant to Solve Life, the Universe and Everything

The Strange Story of the Algorithm Meant to Solve Life,...

SIN Sep 19, 2024 0 6

Some researchers dream of solving all mysteries with a common method—but a mathe...

Being Empathetic Is Easier when Everyone’s Doing It

Being Empathetic Is Easier when Everyone’s Doing It

SIN Sep 19, 2024 0 3

Research is revealing the key to motivating empathy—and making it stick

Surgeons Identify—And Save—A Patient’s Chess-Playing Brain Area

Surgeons Identify—And Save—A Patient’s Chess-Playing Br...

SIN Sep 19, 2024 0 4

Neuroscientists at the University of Barcelona set about on a search for brain a...

Mystery of Deep-Ocean ‘Biotwang’ Sound Has Finally Been Solved

Mystery of Deep-Ocean ‘Biotwang’ Sound Has Finally Been...

SIN Sep 18, 2024 0 3

A strange sound dubbed “biotwang” was first heard bouncing around the Mariana Tr...

Science Crossword: Cosmic Goals

Science Crossword: Cosmic Goals

SIN Sep 18, 2024 0 3

Play this crossword inspired by the October 2024 issue of Scientific American

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