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Puns, Pranks and Puerile Humor: Silly Stories about Serious Science

Puns, Pranks and Puerile Humor: Silly Stories about Ser...

SIN Jan 28, 2024 0 1

Seventy-one essays of science trivia, from duck penises to hangover myths

Brains Are Not Required When It Comes to Thinking and Solving Problems--Simple Cells Can Do It

Brains Are Not Required When It Comes to Thinking and S...

SIN Jan 27, 2024 0 4

Tiny clumps of cells show basic cognitive abilities, and some animals can rememb...

Readers Respond to the October 2023 Issue

Readers Respond to the October 2023 Issue

SIN Jan 27, 2024 0 24

Letters to the editors for the October 2023 issue of Scientific American

How to Save Indigenous Languages

How to Save Indigenous Languages

SIN Jan 27, 2024 0 3

From Papua New Guinea to the Andaman Islands, Indigenous languages are under thr...

The Roman Empire's Worst Plagues Were Linked to Climate Change

The Roman Empire's Worst Plagues Were Linked to Climate...

SIN Jan 27, 2024 0 3

Changes in the climate may have caused disruptions to Roman society that manifes...

Syphilislike Diseases Have Plagued Humans for 14,000 Years

Syphilislike Diseases Have Plagued Humans for 14,000 Years

SIN Jan 27, 2024 0 27

Ancient DNA recovered from Brazilian remains shows that syphilis and other trepo...

Climate Disasters Prompt Another Home Insurance Company to Leave a State

Climate Disasters Prompt Another Home Insurance Company...

SIN Jan 27, 2024 0 21

The Hartford Financial Services Group is the latest insurer to say it won’t offe...

New 'Chicken from Hell' Discovered

New 'Chicken from Hell' Discovered

SIN Jan 26, 2024 0 1

A newly identified “chicken from hell” species suggests dinosaurs weren’t slidin...

Hospice Providers Must Be Better Regulated

Hospice Providers Must Be Better Regulated

SIN Jan 26, 2024 0 24

Too many hospice providers in the U.S. are run by private equity and for-profit ...

Tiny Fossils Reveal Dinosaurs' Lost Worlds

Tiny Fossils Reveal Dinosaurs' Lost Worlds

SIN Jan 26, 2024 0 1

Special assemblages of minuscule fossils bring dinosaur ecosystems to life

AI Survey Exaggerates Apocalyptic Risks

AI Survey Exaggerates Apocalyptic Risks

SIN Jan 26, 2024 0 2

A speculative survey about AI’s future may have been biased toward an alarmist p...

Consciousness Is a Continuum, and Scientists Are Starting to Measure It

Consciousness Is a Continuum, and Scientists Are Starti...

SIN Jan 26, 2024 0 5

A new technique helps anesthesiologists track changes in states of consciousness

AI Audio Deepfakes Are Quickly Outpacing Detection

AI Audio Deepfakes Are Quickly Outpacing Detection

SIN Jan 26, 2024 0 1

An alleged voice recording of racist remarks exemplifies the challenges of our n...

Cleaning Water Naturally the Ancient Maya Way

Cleaning Water Naturally the Ancient Maya Way

SIN Jan 26, 2024 0 2

The ancestral Maya lived in better harmony with the environment and kept water c...

How Far Away Is the Horizon?

How Far Away Is the Horizon?

SIN Jan 26, 2024 0 18

The edge of the world is closer than you think, and simple geometry proves it

NASA's Mars Helicopter Ingenuity Ends Mission on the Red Planet after 3 Years

NASA's Mars Helicopter Ingenuity Ends Mission on the Re...

SIN Jan 26, 2024 0 23

NASA’s enterprising Mars helicopter and its remarkable 72 flights offered a new ...

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