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The agony and the ecstasy of deep brain stimulation surgery
What deep brain stimulation surgery feels like.
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Human Rapamycin Longevity Clinical Trials Begin
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.
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If you think psychological science is bad, imagine how bad it was in 1999
Shane Frederick points us to this article from 1999 , “Stereotype susceptibility: Identity salience and shifts in quantitative performance,” about which he writes:
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A Visualization of Galactic Settlement
Oh good, Star Wars got it right. The Core will indeed be a nexus of galactic civilization.
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What we learned doing Fast Grants
We launched an abnormally fast source of emergency science funding during COVID-19. The results revealed flaws in current science funding models.
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Myths in cycling: wider tires are slower
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…
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Merck Statement on Ivermectin use During the COVID-19 Pandemic
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…
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Animal testing is exploitative and largely ineffective
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Subatomic particle seen changing to antiparticle and back for the first time
Physicists have proved that a subatomic particle can switch into its antiparticle alter-ego and back again, in a new discovery revealed today. An extraordinarily precise measurement made by Oxford researchers using the LHCb experiment at CERN has provided the first evidence that charm mesons can change into their…
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How to sequence your genome at home
In this post I'll describe how to sequence a human genome at home, something that's only recently become possible.
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The Dangers of Low Head Dams (2019)
Dams serve a wide variety of purposes from hydropower to flood control to storage of water for municipal and industrials uses. But when a dam’s useful purpose fades away, the structure itself still remains. Dams come in all shapes and sizes, but contrary to what you might think, the most dangerous d
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Hundreds of fishing vessels vanishing along Argentina’s waters
An Oceana analysis found hundreds of foreign fishing vessels, primarily Chinese, pillaging the waters off Argentina.
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Ultra-high-density hard drives made with graphene store ten times more data
Graphene can be used for ultra-high density hard disk drives (HDD), with up to a tenfold jump compared to current technologies, researchers at the Cambridge Graphene Centre have shown.
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A Browsable Petascale Reconstruction of the Human Cortex
Posted by Tim Blakely, Software Engineer and Michał Januszewski, Research Scientist, Connectomics at Google In January 2020 we released the fly “he...
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A possible link between childhood trauma and Alzheimer disease
Two recent articles, one about China and the other from Europe, are pointing at a link between childhood trauma and Alzheimer disease. The first
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Please commit more blatant academic fraud
This week, I was thrilled to read about the first well-documented case of explicit academic fraud in the artificial intelligence community. I hope that this is the beginning of a trend, and that other researchers will be inspired by their example and follow up by engaging in even more blatant...
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Trials begin on lozenge that rebuilds tooth enamel
A new breath mint that rebuilds your tooth enamel while it whitens your teeth has been created by UW Researchers.
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Mild Covid-19 induces lasting antibody protection
People who have had mild illness develop antibody-producing cells that can last lifetime
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How inevitable is the concept of numbers?
Stephen Wolfram considers if numbers are actually required, the use of symbolics and the potential for the growing role of computational irreducibility.
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Cornell researchers see atoms at record resolution
Cornell researchers have topped their own record for atomic resolution with an electron microscope pixel array detector that incorporates sophisticated 3D reconstruction algorithms.
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A new replication crisis: Research that is less likely to be true is cited more
Papers in leading psychology, economic and science journals that fail to replicate and therefore are less likely to be true are often the most cited papers in academic research, according to a new study by the University of California San Diego’s Rady School of Management.
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Over the past 10 years, the LHC has found more than 50 new hadrons
This content is currently in the process of being archived and integrated into the CERN Library collections.
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Advice for young scientists and curious people in general
In Advice to a Young Scientist, Nobel Prize-winning biologist Peter Medawar shares practical advice for people planning to embark on a career in the sciences—and curious people in general. Here, we summarize some of Medawar’s key insights.
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A long-lasting, stable solid-state lithium battery
Researchers demonstrate a solution to a 40-year problem
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Caltech professor helps solve Hindenburg disaster
Konstantinos Giapis delves into the science of the iconic accident for a PBS special.