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Plans For New Reactors Worldwide
Nuclear power capacity worldwide is increasing steadily. Most reactors under construction are in the Asian region. Significant further capacity is being created by plant uprating.
Most cited
Posts that commenters keep linking to, ranked by how many different people have cited them in Hacker News comments. 258 posts.
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Electricity Mix
Explore data on where our electricity comes from and how this is changing.
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On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem
We’re sharing an AI-generated solution to the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem, including a writeup and a formal proof in Lean.
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Mortality Risk of COVID-19
Explore data on the mortality risk of COVID-19 across the world.
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War and Peace
How common are armed conflict and peace between and within countries? How is this changing over time? Explore research and data on war and peace.
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Algorithm recovers speech from a potato-chip bag filmed through glass (2014)
Algorithm recovers speech from the vibrations of a potato-chip bag filmed through soundproof glass.
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Carcinogenicity of red and processed meat
Red meat refers to all mammalian muscle meat, including beef, veal, pork, lamb, mutton, horse and goat.
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How much of the world’s land would we need in order to feed the global population with the average diet of a given country?
There are large differences in the land of different diets, mostly depending on how much meat people eat.
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Environmental Impacts of Food Production
What are the environmental impacts of food production? How do we reduce the impacts of agriculture on the environment?
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SR-71 Blackbird Speed Check Story
There were a lot of things we couldn't do in an SR-71, but we were the fastest guys on the block and loved reminding our fellow aviators of this...
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Fasting triggers stem cell regeneration of damaged, old immune system
Results in mice are first evidence of natural intervention triggering stem cell-dependent regeneration of organ or system ; p rotection from chemotherapy immunosuppression indicates effect could be conserved in humans.
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Pfizer and BioNTech Conclude Phase 3 Study of COVID-19 Vaccine Candidate, Meeting All Primary Efficacy Endpoints
Primary efficacy analysis demonstrates BNT162b2 to be 95% effective against COVID-19 beginning 28 days after the first dose; 170 confirmed cases of COVID-19 were evaluated, with 162 observed in the placebo group versus 8 in the vaccine group Efficacy was consistent across age, gender, race and ethnicity demographics…
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Long COVID: Lasting effects of COVID-19
COVID-19 can have lasting symptoms that affect many parts of the body. Learn more about the symptoms and effects of long COVID.
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New study finds 45,000 deaths annually linked to lack of health coverage
Nearly 45,000 annual deaths are associated with lack of health insurance, according to a new study published online today by the American Journal of Public Health. That figure is about…
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Arguments from Global Warming Skeptics and what the science really says
Examines the science and arguments of global warming skepticism. Common objections like 'global warming is caused by the sun', 'temperature has changed naturally in the past' or 'other planets are warming too' are examined to see what the science really says.
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Half of the world’s habitable land is used for agriculture
More than three-quarters of global agricultural land is used for livestock, despite meat and dairy making up a much smaller share of the world's protein and calories.
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Economic Inequality
How is inequality measured, who produces key databases, and what does the data tell us?
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Population Growth
Explore global and national data on population growth, demography, and how they are changing.
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Which form of transport has the smallest carbon footprint?
How can individuals reduce their emissions from transport?
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Nuclear Power in China
China has become largely self-sufficient in reactor design and construction, as well as other aspects of the nuclear fuel cycle. The strong impetus for nuclear power in China is increasingly due to air pollution from coal-fired plants.
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People
This text circulated on the internet in September 2003. I first became aware of it when a journalist contacted a my colleague Sian Miller on 16th September, trying to track down the original source. It's been passed on many times, and in the way of most internet memes has mutated along the way. It struck me as…
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Where does the plastic in oceans come from?
Which countries and rivers emit the most plastic to the ocean? What does this mean for solutions to tackle plastic pollution?
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Signs of introspection in large language models
Research on the ability of large language models to introspect on their own internal states.
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Surgical masks reduce Covid-19 spread, large-scale Stanford study shows
Researchers found that surgical masks impede the spread of COVID-19 and that just a few, low-cost interventions increase mask-wearing compliance.
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Trust: Our World in Data
Trust is essential for effective cooperation. How does trust vary between different societies and locations and what matters for levels of trust?
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Chernobyl: the true scale of the accident
A total of up to 4000 people could eventually die of radiation exposure from the Chernobyl nuclear power plant (NPP) accident nearly 20 years ago, an international team of more than 100 scientists has concluded.
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Energy Mix
Explore global data on where our energy comes from, and how this is changing.
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Rates of Motor Vehicle Crashes, Injuries and Deaths in Relation to Driver Age, United States, 2014-2015
This Research Brief presents updated data on crash risk using data on crashes from the US DOT in conjunction with data on driving mileage from the AAA Foundation's American Driving Survey.
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Data review: ethnographic and archaeological evidence on violent deaths
What quantitative data is there about violent deaths in non-state societies?
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Almost all of the world’s mammal biomass is humans and livestock
Humans and livestock make up 95% of the world’s mammal biomass; wild mammals are just 5%.