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AI Is Too Unpredictable to Behave According to Human Goals

AI Is Too Unpredictable to Behave According to Human Goals

SIN Jan 27, 2025 0 6

AI “alignment” is a buzzword, not a feasible safety goal

What Would a U.S. Withdrawal from the WHO Mean for Global Health?

What Would a U.S. Withdrawal from the WHO Mean for Glob...

SIN Jan 27, 2025 0 5

A rundown on what’s at stake for global health if the U.S. withdraws from the Wo...

Joints Are the Ultimate Flex

Joints Are the Ultimate Flex

SIN Jan 25, 2025 0 7

The evolution of joints is how we went from blobs to badasses

Weekend Rain Poses Landslide Risk in Wildfire-Scarred Los Angeles

Weekend Rain Poses Landslide Risk in Wildfire-Scarred L...

SIN Jan 25, 2025 0 9

The Los Angeles area is expecting rain this weekend—potentially offering a respi...

Trump Cancels Science Reviews at NIH, World’s Largest Public Biomedical Research Funder

Trump Cancels Science Reviews at NIH, World’s Largest P...

SIN Jan 25, 2025 0 7

President Trump has placed an indefinite suspension on research grant reviews an...

How Reality TV Helps Explain Trump’s Success

How Reality TV Helps Explain Trump’s Success

SIN Jan 25, 2025 0 6

What makes reality shows so popular also helps explain why Donald Trump is so po...

Los Angeles Fires Force Us to Confront Our Dystopian Present

Los Angeles Fires Force Us to Confront Our Dystopian Pr...

SIN Jan 25, 2025 0 8

Decades of warnings went ignored about the threats from climate change. With hom...

The Health Effects of FDA-Authorized ZYN Nicotine Pouches

The Health Effects of FDA-Authorized ZYN Nicotine Pouches

SIN Jan 25, 2025 0 5

ZYN, the popular brand of flavored nicotine pouches, recently earned FDA authori...

Los Angeles Fires Delay Release of New Fire Risk Maps

Los Angeles Fires Delay Release of New Fire Risk Maps

SIN Jan 25, 2025 0 4

Climate disasters such as the recent Los Angeles–area fires are making it harder...

Community Science Initiatives You Can Do on a Trip to the Outdoors

Community Science Initiatives You Can Do on a Trip to t...

SIN Jan 24, 2025 0 5

The founder of Adventure Scientists explains how community science is the ultima...

Are Saturn’s Rings Vanishing? That Depends on Your Point of View

Are Saturn’s Rings Vanishing? That Depends on Your Poin...

SIN Jan 24, 2025 0 5

This year, from Earth’s perspective, Saturn’s rings will appear nearly edge on, ...

Teaching Evolution Has a Bright Future in the U.S.

Teaching Evolution Has a Bright Future in the U.S.

SIN Jan 24, 2025 0 6

A century after the Scopes trial, hopeful prospects beckon for teaching the unif...

Glowing “Mystery Mollusk” Finally Identified

Glowing “Mystery Mollusk” Finally Identified

SIN Jan 24, 2025 0 6

This strange sea creature stumped scientists for 20 years. Here’s what it really...

Remembering Margarethe Hilferding, the First Woman Admitted to Freud’s Vienna Psychoanalytic Society

Remembering Margarethe Hilferding, the First Woman Admi...

SIN Jan 24, 2025 0 6

Margarethe Hilferding was the first woman admitted to Sigmund Freud’s Vienna Psy...

The Neuroscience of Severance: What’s Real? What’s Fake?

The Neuroscience of Severance: What’s Real? What’s Fake?

SIN Jan 24, 2025 0 7

The hit show Severance can be refashioned as a teaching moment about certain bra...

How Sports Betting Apps Use Psychology to Keep Users Gambling

How Sports Betting Apps Use Psychology to Keep Users Ga...

SIN Jan 24, 2025 0 9

Mobile sports betting apps’ frictionless designs, personalized notifications and...

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