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Government grant-funded research should not be published in for-profit journals
OR: the long overdue forest fire
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 4,455 posts.
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A ternary plot of citrus geneology
Interactive ternary chart of citrus ancestry
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First in-utero stem cell therapy for fetal spina bifida repair is safe: study
A UC Davis Health research team has safely performed the world’s first spina bifida treatment combining fetal surgery with stem cells, according to results from Phase 1 of an ongoing clinical trial. These results have been published today in The Lancet.
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World-first gigabit laser link between aircraft and geostationary satellite
Faster, more secure connections from space could one day make broadband on planes, ships and even remote roads as easy as turning on a light. The European Space Agency (ESA), Airbus Defence and Space, the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO) and German payload manufacturer TESAT (as…
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Google Street View in 2026
Benchmarks & Tips for Big Data, Hadoop, AWS, Google Cloud, PostgreSQL, Spark, Python & More...
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Looks like it is happening
Update: Sorry, but a commenter points out that this may just be an artifact of counting based on when most recently modified, not on original submission date. Numbers using original, not most recen…
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The Physics and Economics of Moving 44 Tonnes at 56mph
Weight limits, speed limits, fuel consumption at scale, and why trucks do the things that annoy you on the motorway.
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Six Math Essentials
Just a brief announcement that I have been working with Quanta Books to publish a short book in popular mathematics entitled “Six Math Essentials”, which will cover six of the fundament…
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Blue light filters don't work – controlling total luminance is a better bet
Why controlling total luminance is a better bet
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Overall, the colorectal cancer story is encouraging
An interactive data journalism piece exploring the rise of young-onset colorectal cancer, with population simulations, risk factors, and prevention information.
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Dinosaur Food: 100M year old foods we still eat today (2022)
I just finished Oliver Sacks’ excellent Everything in Its Place. In it, he mentioned as an aside that the Ginkgo biloba tree is hundreds of millions of years old, and its phenotype has been practically frozen since then – a living fossil.
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So you want to build a tunnel
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] It seems like homemade tunnels are kind of having a moment. Just about everywhere I look, it feels like someone is carving new spaces from the ground and documenting the process online. Colin Furze might be the quintessential ex
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Neurons outside the brain
The three brains in our body
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Pink noise reduces REM sleep and may harm sleep quality
Potential sleep solutions like “pink noise” & other ambient noises worsened sleep quality, while earplugs protected sleep, in a study on the effects of aircraft noise on sleep.
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GPT-5.2 derives a new result in theoretical physics
A new preprint shows GPT-5.2 proposing a new formula for a gluon amplitude, later formally proved and verified by OpenAI and academic collaborators.
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Why vampires live forever
The modern longevity movement's obsession with blood transfusions makes perfect sense — if you accept that Peter Thiel and Bryan Johnson are vampires.
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5,300-year-old 'bow drill' rewrites story of ancient Egyptian tools
A new study reveals that Egyptians were using a mechanically sophisticated drilling tool far earlier than previously suggested.
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The Singularity will occur on a Tuesday
src= alt="Always has been astronaut meme" / "Wait, the singularity is just humans freaking out?" "Always has been." Everyone in San Francisco is talking about t
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A brief history of oral peptides
Semaglutide is a peptide. Your stomach’s entire job is to destroy peptides.
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Why is the sky blue?
The internet’s default answer to “why is the sky blue?” is “Rayleigh scattering”. And that’s not wrong, but it’s also not very useful.
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Quartz crystals
(This is an adapted version of part of an article I wrote for the Dutch amateur radio magazine Electron , August 2016.)
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I'm going to cure my girlfriend's brain tumor
Launch of an experiment to use AI-Scientists to accelerate research of a "solved" disease.
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Invention of DNA "page numbers" opens up possibilities for the bioeconomy
A major technological advance in DNA writing enables researchers to construct and create in the language of biology
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It's all a blur
Designing a slightly sneaky blur filter and then poking holes in it.
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Where did all the starships go?
In this Weekly Chart, we look for sci-fi books and their changing titles.
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Banning lead in gas worked. The proof is in our hair
Researchers analyzed samples of Utahns' hair going back a century to document a 100-fold decrease in lead concentrations.
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Dark Alley Mathematics
Base changing and other calculations
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Vitamin D supplements cut heart attack risk by 52%. Why?
A new randomized control trial tested personalized vitamin D supplementation based on blood test results.
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Two days of oatmeal reduce cholesterol level
The fact that oats have a beneficial effect on the metabolism is nothing new. German medic Carl von Noorden treated patients with diabetes with the cereal at the beginning of the 20th century – with remarkable success. “Today, effective medications are available to treat patients with diabetes,” explains…