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Removing oil left behind in 2.5B gallons of produced water every day in U.S.
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The most popular blog posts about science & space on Hacker News. 4,455 posts.
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Bitter Lessons from the ISSpresso
Why launch costs aren't the reason it costs a fortune to do things in space
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The Block Stacking Problem
John D. Norton Department of History and Philosophy of Science University of Pittsburgh https://sites.pitt.edu/~jdnorton/jdnorton.html
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AlphaFold: Using AI for Scientific Discovery
In our study published in Nature, we demonstrate how artificial intelligence research can drive and accelerate new scientific discoveries. We’ve built a dedicated, interdisciplinary team in hopes of using AI to push basic research forward: bringing together experts from the fields of structural biology, physics, and…
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Stealing from Biologists to Compile Haskell Faster
The trick that makes GHC’s ApplicativeDo optimization faster is structurally identical to how biologists predict RNA folding.
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How much do electric car batteries degrade?
Many electric cars will still have more than 80% of their initial capacity after 200,000 miles.
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Do climate models predict extreme weather?
Science News, Physics, Science, Philosophy, Philosophy of Science
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A global reforestation project is how we fix climate change
An In-Depth Overview of Key Technical Factors
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Russia’s permafrost is melting and it could have a devastating global effect
Rising temperatures are causing the frozen ground that covers large parts of the Earth to break up, adding to the greenhouse gases in the atmosphere
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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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My Hour of Memoryless Lucidity
Yesterday, I had a coronectomy: the top halves of my bottom wisdom teeth were surgically removed. It was my first time being sedated, and I didn’t know what to expect. While I was unconscious…
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Impulsive Rich Kid, Impulsive Poor Kid (2015)
Is the best way to curb crime a widespread program in cognitive behavioral therapy?
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Data from over 100 failed ceasefires shows most are followed by offensives
This article was originally published by War is Boring on 31 October 2016.On Sept. 10, 2016, the U.S.-brokered a ceasefire with Russia and Syria in the besieged city of Aleppo. Although low-in
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Does the Sumerian King List Align with Paleoclimate Events?
A statistical test of whether the Sumerian King List's antediluvian reigns line up with paleoclimate events better than chance.
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Batteries with 50 per cent more energy with pure silicon anode
The unit Energy and Materials Transition will focus primarily on the themes of a sustainable energy system and sustainable industry, including circularity.
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Oyster: Towards Unsupervised Object Detection from Lidar Point Clouds
Transform your supply chain with Waabi’s AI-first autonomous trucking solution. Scale freight operations, improve safety, and boost efficiency. Learn more.
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LIGO Surpasses the Quantum Limit
New technology in operation at LIGO is tackling quantum mechanical noise, enabling LIGO to probe a larger volume of the Universe and greatly boost the observatory's ability to study the exotic events that shake space and time.
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Gravitational attraction of stars and cows
One attempt at rationalizing astrology is to say that the gravitational effects of celestial bodies impact our bodies. To get an idea how hard the stars and planets pull on us, let's compare their gravitational attraction to that of cows at various distances. Newton's law of gravity says that the gravitational…
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The lottery ticket hypothesis: why neural networks work
The lottery ticket hypothesis explains why massive neural networks succeed despite centuries of theory predicting they should fail
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Zebrafish protein unlocks dormant genes for heart repair
Researchers from the Bakkers group at the Hubrecht Institute have successfully repaired damaged mouse hearts using a protein from zebrafish.
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Distinct cellular and genetic differences in colorectal cancer in young patients
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute researchers, along with Mass General Brigham researchers from the Gene Lay Institute of Immunology and Inflammation, and the Broad Institute, have uncovered biological clues to why colorectal cancer can behave more aggressively in younger people. Published today in Nature Medicine, the…
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Quark Stars
Wow — evidence that very massive neutron stars may have cores made of deconfined quark matter! The idea of a ‘quark star’ is not new, but I didn’t know it was a serio…
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The first dexterous and sentient hand prosthesis has been successfully implanted
Your Content Goes Here A female Swedish patient with hand amputation has become the first recipient of an osseo-neuromuscular implant to control a dexterous hand prosthesis. In a pioneering surgery, titanium implants were placed in the two forearm bones (radius and ulnar), from which electrodes to nerves and muscle…
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Busy Beaver Updates: Now Even Busier
Way back in the covid-filled summer of 2020, I wrote a survey article about the ridiculously-rapidly-growing Busy Beaver function. My survey then expanded to nearly twice its original length, with …