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What Halting Congestion Pricing in NYC Could Mean for Plans in Other Cities

What Halting Congestion Pricing in NYC Could Mean for P...

SIN Jun 11, 2024 0 4

Portland, Ore., Seattle, San Francisco and Los Angeles have all explored chargin...

What Do Google’s AI Answers Cost the Environment?

What Do Google’s AI Answers Cost the Environment?

SIN Jun 11, 2024 0 3

Google is bringing AI answers to a billion people this year, but generative AI r...

Astronomers Should Take a Deeper Look at Naming

Astronomers Should Take a Deeper Look at Naming

SIN Jun 11, 2024 0 2

We should—and must—take careful measure of what we name things

How Magic Tricks Help Us Understand Animal Minds

How Magic Tricks Help Us Understand Animal Minds

SIN Jun 11, 2024 0 4

By performing tricks for birds, monkeys and other creatures, researchers hope to...

Can AI Stop Climate Misinformation?

Can AI Stop Climate Misinformation?

SIN Jun 11, 2024 0 2

Researchers want to create an AI system that can quickly detect and debunk false...

Elephants Call Their Relatives by Name across the Savanna

Elephants Call Their Relatives by Name across the Savanna

SIN Jun 11, 2024 0 3

Female elephants address one another with individualized rumbles

How Do Whole-Body Deodorants Work, and Are They Safe?

How Do Whole-Body Deodorants Work, and Are They Safe?

SIN Jun 10, 2024 0 2

A number of whole-body deodorants are coming to market. But are they safe and ef...

Very Hungry—And Very Invasive—Caterpillars Are a Munching through U.S. Forests

Very Hungry—And Very Invasive—Caterpillars Are a Munchi...

SIN Jun 10, 2024 0 2

Drought is facilitating the devastating spread of spongy moth caterpillars acros...

Here’s Why Protest News Doesn’t Tell You Much

Here’s Why Protest News Doesn’t Tell You Much

SIN Jun 10, 2024 0 4

Baked-in news practices cover only the worst moments of protests and neglect tel...

Teens Are Spreading Deepfake Nudes of One Another. It’s No Joke

Teens Are Spreading Deepfake Nudes of One Another. It’s...

SIN Jun 10, 2024 0 3

Teens are sending deepfake nude images of classmates to each other, disrupting l...

Carbon Removal Is Catching On, but It Needs to Go Faster

Carbon Removal Is Catching On, but It Needs to Go Faster

SIN Jun 10, 2024 0 2

World leaders must make plans to remove more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere,...

AI Identifies Antibiotic Candidates, and There’s a ‘Morning-After Pill’ for Sexually Transmitted Infections

AI Identifies Antibiotic Candidates, and There’s a ‘Mor...

SIN Jun 10, 2024 0 2

The Hubble Space Telescope’s woes, moon rocks and antibiotic candidates discover...

How to Improve Prospective Memory, the Ability to Remember to Remember

How to Improve Prospective Memory, the Ability to Remem...

SIN Jun 9, 2024 0 3

Prospective memory is a skill that can be practiced, making it more likely that ...

AI Will Become Mathematicians’ ‘Co-Pilot’

AI Will Become Mathematicians’ ‘Co-Pilot’

SIN Jun 8, 2024 0 5

Fields Medalist Terence Tao explains how proof checkers and AI programs are dram...

Banning Fossil Fuel Ads Would Be Legally Difficult in the U.S.

Banning Fossil Fuel Ads Would Be Legally Difficult in t...

SIN Jun 8, 2024 0 5

This week U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres called for bans on fossil fuel...

Some People with Insomnia Think They’re Awake When They’re Asleep

Some People with Insomnia Think They’re Awake When They...

SIN Jun 7, 2024 0 4

You say you haven’t slept all night. Brain scans say you have. New science says ...

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