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How Venus’ Quasi-Moon Zoozve Got Its Name

How Venus’ Quasi-Moon Zoozve Got Its Name

SIN Jul 17, 2024 0 6

Radiolab host Latif Nasser found and named a mysterious quasi-moon of Venus. Now...

These Animals are Physics Whizzes

These Animals are Physics Whizzes

SIN Jul 17, 2024 0 19

How falling cats, slithering snakes, burrowing prairie dogs and more exploit the...

How Twisters Brought the Science of Storm Chasing to the Big Screen

How Twisters Brought the Science of Storm Chasing to th...

SIN Jul 17, 2024 0 5

Sean Waugh, a professional storm chaser and meteorologist, talks about his role ...

LARPing Made Me a Stronger Person. It Can Do the Same for You, Too

LARPing Made Me a Stronger Person. It Can Do the Same f...

SIN Jul 16, 2024 0 5

Thousands of people around the world do live-action role-playing to learn and ch...

The Nash Equilibrium Is the Optimal Poker Strategy. Expert Players Don’t Always Use It

The Nash Equilibrium Is the Optimal Poker Strategy. Exp...

SIN Jul 16, 2024 0 5

Poker players can now employ AI to find the optimal playing strategy, but they o...

How Games Run Everything from Online Dating to Social Media to Stock Markets

How Games Run Everything from Online Dating to Social M...

SIN Jul 16, 2024 0 4

Games have captivated people since ancient times. Now they run our lives

What Game Should I Play? Take This Interactive Quiz to Find Out

What Game Should I Play? Take This Interactive Quiz to ...

SIN Jul 16, 2024 0 5

From board games to solo puzzles to fantastical escapes to tricks for running fa...

Why Almost Everyone Gets the Monty Hall Probability Puzzle Wrong

Why Almost Everyone Gets the Monty Hall Probability Puz...

SIN Jul 16, 2024 0 4

How to finally wrap your mind around the uniquely counterintuitive Monty Hall di...

COVID Rates Are Rising Again. Why Does SARS-CoV-2 Spread So Well in the Summer?

COVID Rates Are Rising Again. Why Does SARS-CoV-2 Sprea...

SIN Jul 16, 2024 0 6

A combination of human behavior and immunity, the environment, and SARS-CoV-2 it...

Asteroid Apophis is Target of Europe’s New Ramses Mission

Asteroid Apophis is Target of Europe’s New Ramses Mission

SIN Jul 16, 2024 0 3

ESA’s Ramses spacecraft will scout out Apophis before and after the asteroid’s s...

Science Crossword: Pseudoscience

Science Crossword: Pseudoscience

SIN Jul 16, 2024 0 3

Your favorite word game with a twist of science

What Do Baseball Pitchers Shohei Ohtani, Gerrit Cole and Shane Bieber Have in Common?

What Do Baseball Pitchers Shohei Ohtani, Gerrit Cole an...

SIN Jul 16, 2024 0 4

Baseball pitchers are throwing faster than ever—and needing Tommy John surgery

Games Rule the World—And Always Have

Games Rule the World—And Always Have

SIN Jul 16, 2024 0 4

Why we’re fascinated by solving mind-bending puzzles, pitching faster fastballs,...

How Does the World’s Largest Library Decide What Becomes History?

How Does the World’s Largest Library Decide What Become...

SIN Jul 16, 2024 0 5

From ancient clay tablets to TV shows to video games, the U.S. Library of Congre...

A Weird, Midsize Black Hole May Lurk in Omega Centauri

A Weird, Midsize Black Hole May Lurk in Omega Centauri

SIN Jul 16, 2024 0 5

Images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope point to an elusive intermediate-size...

Can One Chatbot Catch Another’s Lies?

Can One Chatbot Catch Another’s Lies?

SIN Jul 16, 2024 0 5

A new approach uses language models to interrogate other language models and sni...

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