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The National Weather Service Is Understaffed and Underfunded. Here’s Why That Matters.

The National Weather Service Is Understaffed and Underf...

SIN Jun 6, 2025 0 20

What happens when the U.S.’s most trusted source of extreme weather alerts can’t...

What Is the Analemma?

What Is the Analemma?

SIN Jun 6, 2025 0 20

A curious celestial phenomenon known as the analemma is a reflection of Earth’s ...

New NWS Hires Won’t Make Up for Trump Cuts, Meteorologists Say

New NWS Hires Won’t Make Up for Trump Cuts, Meteorologi...

SIN Jun 5, 2025 0 15

Nearly 600 employees left the National Weather Service or were fired in recent m...

This ‘Tower of Worms’ Is a Squirming Superorganism

This ‘Tower of Worms’ Is a Squirming Superorganism

SIN Jun 5, 2025 0 19

Scientists have captured the first videos of wild roundworms forming living, wri...

Mathematicians Solve Multidimensional Shape-Slicing Dilemma

Mathematicians Solve Multidimensional Shape-Slicing Dil...

SIN Jun 5, 2025 0 27

A 40-year-old conjecture on shapes’ cross sections is finally proven

What Will Happen to Opioid and Drug Overdose Deaths after CDC Cuts?

What Will Happen to Opioid and Drug Overdose Deaths aft...

SIN Jun 5, 2025 0 20

Layoffs and funding freezes have gutted the CDC’s response to the opioid crisis—...

How We Solve the Climate Crisis

How We Solve the Climate Crisis

SIN Jun 5, 2025 0 19

Science communicator Hank Green explains how our species’ unique intelligence go...

Nuclear Weapon Strike Decisions Could Come Down to Human Suggestibility

Nuclear Weapon Strike Decisions Could Come Down to Huma...

SIN Jun 5, 2025 0 40

Surveys show that how nuclear strike options are presented strongly influences t...

How Velvet Worm Slime Hardens in Seconds to Trap Prey

How Velvet Worm Slime Hardens in Seconds to Trap Prey

SIN Jun 5, 2025 0 25

The velvet worm’s extraordinary goo could inspire recyclable bioplastics

Proposed Federal Budget Would Devastate U.S. Space Science

Proposed Federal Budget Would Devastate U.S. Space Science

SIN Jun 5, 2025 0 15

Scientists are rallying to reverse ruinous proposed cuts to both NASA and the Na...

Is NASA Ready for Death in Space?

Is NASA Ready for Death in Space?

SIN Jun 4, 2025 0 22

NASA has quietly taken steps to prepare for a death in space. We need to ask how...

Math Proves That Everything Really Is Becoming More Complicated over Time

Math Proves That Everything Really Is Becoming More Com...

SIN Jun 4, 2025 0 22

Nothing in the cosmos is in equilibrium, which means entropy is on the rise

Heat Safety Experts behind OSHA Rules Were Laid Off, which Could Make It Easier to Scrap Regulations

Heat Safety Experts behind OSHA Rules Were Laid Off, wh...

SIN Jun 4, 2025 0 22

Government layoffs threaten to make it easier for the Trump administration to di...

Kids See a Lot More Misinformation Than We Think

Kids See a Lot More Misinformation Than We Think

SIN Jun 4, 2025 0 16

Thanks to faulty artificial intelligence, deepfakes and plain bad actors, childr...

Bizarre Quantum Universe

Bizarre Quantum Universe

SIN Jun 3, 2025 0 17

Even how matter exists in the first place is a mystery to physicists

The World Isn’t Ready for the Mental Health Toll of Extreme Heat

The World Isn’t Ready for the Mental Health Toll of Ext...

SIN Jun 3, 2025 0 25

Temperatures are rising, and so are mental health risks

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