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Congressional Budget Turmoil Stops FEMA from Doling out $8 Billion

Congressional Budget Turmoil Stops FEMA from Doling out...

SIN Sep 28, 2023 0 44

Puerto Rico will be hit hardest by spending restrictions set by FEMA as disaster...

Reconstruction Helped Her Become a Physician. Jim Crow Drove Her to Flee the U.S.

Reconstruction Helped Her Become a Physician. Jim Crow ...

SIN Sep 28, 2023 0 43

Sarah Loguen Fraser was the daughter of abolitionists and one of the first Afric...

Classifying Heat Waves Will Help People Better Understand Their Dangers

Classifying Heat Waves Will Help People Better Understa...

SIN Sep 28, 2023 0 44

Climate change is making heat waves stronger and longer. Naming and ranking them...

Precision Medicine Has Been Overhyped

Precision Medicine Has Been Overhyped

SIN Sep 28, 2023 0 36

A new book argues that genomics is overshadowing environmental and social soluti...

How Family Trauma Perpetuates Authoritarian Societies

How Family Trauma Perpetuates Authoritarian Societies

SIN Sep 28, 2023 0 42

Pioneering scholar Riane Eisler describes her lifelong quest to understand why w...

Don't Blame AI. Plagiarism Is Turning Digital News into Hot Garbage

Don't Blame AI. Plagiarism Is Turning Digital News into...

SIN Sep 28, 2023 0 43

A botched obituary underlines threats from both artificial intelligence and digi...

U.S. Heat Deaths Will Soar as the Climate Crisis Worsens

U.S. Heat Deaths Will Soar as the Climate Crisis Worsens

SIN Sep 28, 2023 0 78

With three degrees Celsius of warming, U.S. deaths during extreme temperatures c...

The American Climate Corps Wants You

The American Climate Corps Wants You

SIN Sep 28, 2023 0 69

Biden’s new program is expected to hire 20,000 people in its first year for rene...

Why Do Airplane Flights Cause Digestive Problems?

Why Do Airplane Flights Cause Digestive Problems?

SIN Sep 28, 2023 0 45

The butterflies, and gas, in your tummy while you’re in flight might not just be...

Pangaea Ultima, the Next Supercontinent, May Doom Mammals to Far-Future Extinction

Pangaea Ultima, the Next Supercontinent, May Doom Mamma...

SIN Sep 28, 2023 0 49

250 million years from now, the emergence of a new supercontinent could render m...

Dead Trees and a Mysterious Cosmic Explosion Reveal Bigger Quake Risk for Seattle

Dead Trees and a Mysterious Cosmic Explosion Reveal Big...

SIN Sep 28, 2023 0 42

Washington State’s Puget Sound could face previously unknown earthquake risks, a...

What Happens if You Drop Antimatter? New Gravitational Test Sees First Fall

What Happens if You Drop Antimatter? New Gravitational ...

SIN Sep 27, 2023 0 93

In theory, physicists knew that antimatter should behave just like matter under ...

To Move Fast, Quantum Maze Solvers Must Forget the Past

To Move Fast, Quantum Maze Solvers Must Forget the Past

SIN Sep 27, 2023 0 51

Quantum algorithms can find their way out of mazes exponentially faster than cla...

The Chemistry behind Bourbon

The Chemistry behind Bourbon

SIN Sep 27, 2023 0 50

How does bourbon, “America’s spirit,” get its distinctive taste and color?

Hoʻoleilana, a Billion-Light-Year-Wide Bubble of Galaxies, Astounds Astronomers

Hoʻoleilana, a Billion-Light-Year-Wide Bubble of Galaxi...

SIN Sep 27, 2023 0 45

This enormous structure could help explain processes close to the dawn of time—o...

Song of the Stars, Part 2: Seeing in the Dark

Song of the Stars, Part 2: Seeing in the Dark

SIN Sep 27, 2023 0 39

In 2014, a blind astronomer “sonified” the universe’s most explosive event: a ga...

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