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How a Car Engine Works
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 4,457 posts.
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Stanford researchers show fracking's impact to drinking water sources
News, research, and insights from Stanford University.
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Mapping Mountains
To view mountains from above is to journey through time itself: over ancient shorelines, the trails of glaciers, the marks of countless seasons, and ...
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The IQ Halo effect
On desirable correlates of intelligence
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The Importance of Acoustics in Food Storage
Deep in the archives of San Francisco-based Aquarius Records, buried between several days’ worth of “laptop glitchery” and “brutal industro-crunch,” lies this gem: Insect Noise in Stored Foodstuffs , (INRA, 2000, CD, 19:98).
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Stem Cells Regenerate Human Lens After Cataract Surgery, Restoring Vision
Researchers at University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and Shiley Eye Institute, with colleagues in China, have developed a new, regenerative medicine approach to remove congenital cataracts in infants, permitting remaining stem cells to regrow functional lenses.
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How cancer cells fuel their growth
Scientists report that amino acids, not sugar, supply most building blocks for cancerous tumor cells. The findings offer a new way to look at cancer cell metabolism, a field that may yield new treatments.
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How sleep and mental health are linked in the brain
This article is published in collaboration with The Conversation. We are only beginning to unravel the genetic and biochemical basis of mental illness – a…
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Sci-Hub as necessary, effective civil disobedience
Stevan Harnad’s “Subversive Proposal” came of age last year. I’m now teaching students younger than Stevan’s proposal, and yet, very little has actually changed in these 21 years. On the contrary, one may even make the case that while efforts […] <a class="more-link"…
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Black Hole Tech?
In celebration of the detection of gravitational waves, Stephen Wolfram looks forward and discusses what technology black holes could make possible.
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Beware The Man Of One Study
Aquinas famously said: beware the man of one book. I would add: beware the man of one study. For example, take medical research. Suppose a certain drug is weakly effective against a certain disease…
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New finding may explain heat loss in fusion reactors
Solving a longstanding mystery, MIT experiments reveal two forms of turbulence interacting. The new finding may explain heat loss in nuclear fusion reactors.
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A Peek into Einstein's Zurich Notebook
John D. Norton Department of History and Philosophy of Science University of Pittsburgh This page at http://www.pitt.edu/~jdnorton/Goodies
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Most Radioactive Spot in New York: A Street Corner in Queens
Many are going to ask, "What's so weird about this one corner?" and I'm here to answer. The end of Irving Avenue, where it meets Moffat Str...
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Riddle of cement’s structure is finally solved
Researchers have finally determined that concrete material acts at once as a continuous solid and like an aggregate of small particles. The work may help researchers engineer more durable, sustainable concrete.
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A small 2009 car demolishes a 1959 Chevy in a crash test [video]
In 2009, The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety conducted a crash test between a 1959 Chevrolet Bel Air and a 2009 Chevy Malibu. The video plainly shows how
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The Villain of CRISPR
a blog about genomes, DNA, evolution, open science, baseball and other important things
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Caltech Researchers Find Evidence of a Planet Beyond Pluto
Planet Nine's existence was discovered by Konstantin Batygin and Mike Brown through mathematical modeling and computer simulations.
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2^74207281-1 is Prime
GIMPS has discovered a new Mersenne prime number: 2^74207281-1 is prime! Discovered: 2016 Jan 07