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[sahy-uhns] / ˈsaɪ əns /


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And you don’t need any charts to see what that means: Fiction is on the verge of becoming science.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2026

"The attacks on science have bothered me a lot," French Ecological Transition Minister Monique Barbut was reported as saying by the AFP news agency.

From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2026

Progress in theoretical computer science often comes through incremental refinements rather than dramatic changes.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 2026

Hundreds of studies in computer science and biology rely on it.

From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026

Based on their knowledge of acoustic science, the doctors theorized that the raps could be made to reverberate on nearby tables, doors, or other solid objects.

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock

"Caleb resurrected a statistical technique from a bygone era," said co-author Jacques Gauthier, a professor of Earth and planetary sciences at Yale and curator-in-charge for vertebrate paleontology at the Peabody Museum.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 25, 2026

“It’s like an enormous bathtub sloshing around,” Mark Cane, professor emeritus of earth and climate sciences at Columbia University, told NPR on Monday.

From Salon ● Oct. 22, 2026

But his frustrations are shared by his teachers, including Fatoumata Danso, 30, who has taught economic and social sciences at the Eugene Henaff high school for five years.

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026

State investment vehicles such as Mubadala and Masdar poured billions into U.K. offshore wind, clean tech, life sciences and fiber-optic networks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

In this case, both the music and lyrics are highly informative, as is the situation in which the song was sung, lending itself to integration through three areas: music, language arts and social sciences.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin


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