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Disclaimer: this post is an opinion piece based on the experience and opinions derived from attending the CASP14 conference as a doctoral student researching protein modelling. When provided, quotes have been extracted from my notes of the event, and while I hope to have captured them as accurately as possible, I…
The study of obesity is the study of mysteries.
A new article was published in The Chronicle about me running Sci-Hub, a project dedicated to providing free access to academic journals all over the world. Their goal is to present Sci-Hub and its…
on bottlenecks, crashes and what diversity really looks like
The University of Oxford today started vaccinations of a novel HIV vaccine candidate as part of a Phase I clinical trial in the UK.
If you aren’t used to staring at math, Poisson’s equation looks a little intimidating:
Transport accounts for around one-fifth of global CO₂ emissions. Three-quarters of this is from road transport.
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A completely passive solar-powered desalination system developed by researchers at MIT and in China could provide more than 1.5 gallons of fresh drinking water per hour for every square meter of solar collecting area. Such systems could potentially serve off-grid arid coastal areas to provide an efficient, low-cost…
Physicists at MIT and elsewhere have used gravitational waves to observationally confirm Hawking’s black hole theorem for the first time.
Why did the Asian flush evolve? What does this say about alcoholism? What does this have to do with Odysseus?
Status: Rough working notes – me thinking aloud. Speculative, and likely contains errors, misconceptions, and omissions; thoughtful, informed comments are welcome. Intended for a general scientifically curious audience, not requiring much detailed specialist background.
“The Martian” by Andy Weir, and its film adaptation directed by Ridley Scott, remain some of my all time favorite science fiction works. Way back in the day I wrote a technical commenta…
If you've been reading popular science websites or magazines lately, then you may have heard the news: we don't understand how airplanes work. For example:…
A new study from researchers at Columbia University is the first to quantitatively link psychological stress to graying hair in people and find that the process is reversible.
Researchers have created a plant-based, sustainable, scalable material that could replace single-use plastics in many consumer products.
For 75 days straight, Costa Rica ran on 100% renewable electricity
What deep brain stimulation surgery feels like.
Today is a doubly important day: it marks the final day of the PEARL campaign and it is a celebration of another victory for the life extension community.
Shane Frederick points us to this article from 1999 , “Stereotype susceptibility: Identity salience and shifts in quantitative performance,” about which he writes:
Oh good, Star Wars got it right. The Core will indeed be a nexus of galactic civilization.
We launched an abnormally fast source of emergency science funding during COVID-19. The results revealed flaws in current science funding models.
When we started to publish Bicycle Quarterly 15 years ago, it seemed that most of the technical aspects of bicycles were well-known. And yet, as we tested many different bikes, we started to question many of the things we had accepted as 'facts.' To celebrate…
KENILWORTH, N.J., Feb. 4, 2021 – Merck (NYSE: MRK), known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, today affirmed its position regarding use of ivermectin during the COVID-19 pandemic. Company scientists continue to carefully examine the findings of all available and emerging studies of ivermectin for the…
