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Engineer Who Won the Nobel Prize Twice in Physics
American scientist John Bardeen is famous for the invention of transistor and the theory of superconductivity. Who will win Nobel Prize in 2022?
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 4,455 posts.
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The Hypnotic World of Degenerate Spirals
Doga Tekin's website.
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A review of correlations between big five personality types and life outcomes
People with the same big five personality types tend to be more happy, successful, intelligent, creative, and popular. Why aren’t there more tradeoffs?
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Eating sardines regularly helps prevent type 2 diabetes
Nutrients such as taurine, omega 3, calcium and vitamin D help to protect against the diseaseThe study was carried out on a group of participants aged 65 and above. However, investigators claim the results could be extrapolated to other age groupsSardine consumption also improves other health parameters, such as…
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What did Einstein mean by “spooky action at a distance”?
Science News, Physics, Science, Philosophy, Philosophy of Science
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Dark Matter: The Situation Has Changed
Science News, Physics, Science, Philosophy, Philosophy of Science
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Researchers chart path to drastically lower administrative costs of health care
A new analysis by Stanford researchers suggests the health care industry can reap many of the economic benefits of a "Medicare for All" program through incremental changes to the private health care market.
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UFOs shows government competence as either surprisingly high or low
Sometimes I pride myself on my taking an intellectual strategy of tackling neglected important questions.
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Why has nuclear power been a flop?
Nuclear is expensive, but it should be cheap
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So you want to build a carbon capture company
Would you like to win one hundred million bucks from Elon Musk? Carbon capture (CC) is all the rage these days, with dozens of companies springing up to remove CO2 from the atmosphere and help stab…
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Nicholas Wade: Origin of Covid – Following the Clues
“” is published by Nicholas Wade.
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Internal Combustion Engine
Interactive article explaining how an internal combustion engine works.
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Better drainage of brain debris improves Alzheimer's disease therapies
In most of the organs of our body, the lymphatic system is responsible for conducting lymph between different parts of the body. The lymphatic system processes an average of 3 liters of lymph per day. Lymph lies between the blood vessels and the cells. The lymphatic system provides a return route to the blood vessels…
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The health benefits of better air
Why the air you breathe matters, and what to do about it.
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2021 Williams F1 Computational Fluid Dynamics
Thanks to some clever people I was able to get a CAD model of the current 2021 Williams F1 car — that’s not something that happens every day, so of course I had to run CFD on it. CAD Ge…
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Sector by sector: where do global greenhouse gas emissions come from?
Globally, we emit around 50 billion tonnes of greenhouse gases yearly. Where do these emissions come from? We take a look, sector-by-sector.
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Mars has right ingredients for present-day microbial life: study
New research suggests that rocks in the Martian crust could produce the same kind of chemical energy that supports microbial life deep beneath Earth’s surface.
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Referees’ home-bias in football disappears without audience: study
We analyzed referees’ performances in 1283 games from the top four Eu
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Open Source Goes to Mars
Celebrating the nearly 12,000 developers who aided Ingenuity's first Martian flight with a profile badge that recognizes their contributions to this historic achievement.
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Prions
Editor’s Note 4/4/21: A few weeks after this article was published, a mysterious prion disease was identified in New Brunswick, Canada. I do not have to say that viruses have dominated every level of public conversation for the past year. Ancient and odd but relatively easy to talk about,
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Deriving the piano keyboard from biological principles using clustering
Once upon a time we were creatures in the wilderness and we evolved the ability to hear sounds. Now here's an interesting thing, if you hear a sound of frequency f and others of frequency 2f, 3f, etc then there's a good chance these sounds come from the same object, due to the physical principle of resonance . And so…
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Neurons might contain something within them
Neurons might contain something incredible within them.
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Time flies in Google Earth’s biggest update in years
In the biggest update to Google Earth since 2017, you can now see our planet in an entirely new dimension — time.