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Space Junk from the International Space Station May Have Struck a Home in Florida

Space Junk from the International Space Station May Hav...

SIN Apr 12, 2024 0 50

Three years ago astronauts threw out the largest piece of trash ever tossed from...

How Will EPA’s New Rule about ‘Forever Chemicals’ Protect Your Drinking Water?

How Will EPA’s New Rule about ‘Forever Chemicals’ Prote...

SIN Apr 12, 2024 0 42

A new EPA rule will limit PFASs, or “forever chemicals,” in your drinking water ...

Black Scientists Are Building Their Own Vital Communities

Black Scientists Are Building Their Own Vital Communities

SIN Apr 12, 2024 0 78

A person-centric scientific conference demonstrates that gathering can counter t...

How Do Tides Shape Earth and the Solar System?

How Do Tides Shape Earth and the Solar System?

SIN Apr 12, 2024 0 51

The ocean’s twice-daily rise and fall is only the most obvious effect of tides—t...

Measles Is Back, and That’s Scary

Measles Is Back, and That’s Scary

SIN Apr 12, 2024 0 42

The deadly virus was practically eliminated in the U.S., but now it’s infecting ...

Scientists Found a Way to Supercharge Cancer-Fighting Cells

Scientists Found a Way to Supercharge Cancer-Fighting C...

SIN Apr 12, 2024 0 77

The bioengineered immune players called CAR T cells last longer and work better ...

A Random Influx of DNA from a Virus Helped Vertebrates Become So Stunningly Successful

A Random Influx of DNA from a Virus Helped Vertebrates ...

SIN Apr 12, 2024 0 55

Insertion of genetic material from a virus into the genome of a vertebrate ances...

Why Some People Always Get Lost—And Others Never Do

Why Some People Always Get Lost—And Others Never Do

SIN Apr 12, 2024 0 72

Experience may matter more than innate ability when it comes to a sense of direc...

U.S. Carbon Removal Needs Have a $100-Billion Price Tag—Per Year

U.S. Carbon Removal Needs Have a $100-Billion Price Tag...

SIN Apr 12, 2024 0 54

The U.S. needs to vastly increase taxpayer spending on direct carbon removal tec...

Why We Believe the Myth of High Crime Rates

Why We Believe the Myth of High Crime Rates

SIN Apr 11, 2024 0 52

The crime issue, a focus of the 2024 presidential election, is sometimes rooted...

Did the Eclipse Give You the Amateur Astronomy Bug? Here’s How to Get Started

Did the Eclipse Give You the Amateur Astronomy Bug? Her...

SIN Apr 11, 2024 0 46

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, a professional astronomer, talks about her own adventu...

Climate Action Is a Legal Obligation, European Court Rules

Climate Action Is a Legal Obligation, European Court Rules

SIN Apr 10, 2024 0 41

The European Court of Human Rights found that climate change is a human rights i...

Peter Higgs, a Giant of Particle Physics, Dies at 94

Peter Higgs, a Giant of Particle Physics, Dies at 94

SIN Apr 10, 2024 0 43

The Nobel Prize-winning theorist’s prediction of the Higgs boson sparked a half-...

Why Batteries Come in So Many Sizes and Shapes

Why Batteries Come in So Many Sizes and Shapes

SIN Apr 10, 2024 0 59

A rectangular nine-volt battery is basically just a bunch of smaller batteries i...

How a Theory about Climate Change Led to The Feminine Mystique

How a Theory about Climate Change Led to The Feminine M...

SIN Apr 10, 2024 0 39

In 1958 Betty Friedan wrote an article that changed science journalism—and her c...

Ring This ‘Fish Doorbell’ to Help Migrating Animals Get Through a Dutch Canal

Ring This ‘Fish Doorbell’ to Help Migrating Animals Get...

SIN Apr 10, 2024 0 44

An online underwater livestream lets worldwide volunteers ring a “fish doorbell”...

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