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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 23

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 1

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 3

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 2

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 4

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 3

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

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 1

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

Why Batteries Come in So Many Sizes and Shapes

Why Batteries Come in So Many Sizes and Shapes

SIN Apr 10, 2024 0 3

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

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 2

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

Animal "Queens" Reveal Surprising Complexities of Social Power

Animal "Queens" Reveal Surprising Complexities of Socia...

SIN Apr 10, 2024 0 1

In a new nature documentary about matriarchal species, the males are mostly absent

An Eclipse Is a Moment of Solitude—Even When You’re in a Crowd

An Eclipse Is a Moment of Solitude—Even When You’re in ...

SIN Apr 10, 2024 0 2

Even among hundreds of people, experiencing an eclipse is a joyous solitude

Think Seeing is Believing? Think Again

Think Seeing is Believing? Think Again

SIN Apr 10, 2024 0 2

We think that what we see represents stone-cold reality. Science has found out h...

Rural Americans Are Dying at Increasingly Higher Rates Than City Dwellers

Rural Americans Are Dying at Increasingly Higher Rates ...

SIN Apr 10, 2024 0 2

The urban-rural mortality rate gap in the U.S. is increasing, especially among y...

How Likely Is a Major Earthquake in New York City—And Is the City Prepared for It?

How Likely Is a Major Earthquake in New York City—And I...

SIN Apr 10, 2024 0 4

After an unexpected magnitude 4.8 earthquake rattled the New York City area, que...

Recycle Your Eclipse Glasses to Share the Awe with Others

Recycle Your Eclipse Glasses to Share the Awe with Others

SIN Apr 10, 2024 0 3

The nonprofit Astronomers Without Borders is collecting gently used eclipse glas...

Could Gravitational-Wave ‘Memories’ Prove Einstein Wrong?

Could Gravitational-Wave ‘Memories’ Prove Einstein Wrong?

SIN Apr 9, 2024 0 3

According to Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity, the universe rememb...

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