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A global workspace in language models
Interpretability research on Claude's internal thoughts.
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The most popular blog posts about science & space on Hacker News. 4,454 posts.
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New CRISPR-based map ties every human gene to its function
A new CRISPR-based map ties every human gene to its function using a tool called Perturb-seq. The work was led by Jonathan Weissman and colleagues at MIT and the Whitehead Institute, and is free for other scientists to use.
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Caffeine boosts problem-solving ability but not creativity, study indicates
While the drug is known to increase focus, alertness and motor skills, its effect on creative thinking had not been studied previously.
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We Are Now In Command of the ISEE-3 Spacecraft
The ISEE-3 Reboot Project is pleased to announce that our team has established two-way communication with the ISEE-3 spacecraft and has begun commanding it to perform specific functions. Over the coming days and weeks our team will make an assessment of the spacecraft’s overall health and refine the techniques…
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Bar-tailed Godwits regularly travel more than 7,000 miles non-stop
Bar-tailed Godwits regularly travel more than 7,000 miles non-stop. One enthusiast is spreading the word of their amazing migrations, with the help of a research project tracking 20 tagged birds in...
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Sir, there's a cat in your mirror dimension
Pets do the darndest things, especially if you teach them a bit of math.
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I stopped working on black hole information loss
Science News, Physics, Science, Philosophy, Philosophy of Science
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Human brains are preconfigured with instructions for understanding the world
Assistant Professor of Biomolecular Engineering Tal Sharf's lab used organoids to make fundamental discoveries about human brain development.
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IBM open sources fully-functional Lego microscope design (2020)
By Katia Moskvitch
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All 12 moonwalkers had "lunar hay fever" from dust smelling like gunpowder (2018)
When the Apollo astronauts returned from the Moon, the dust that clung to their spacesuits made their throats sore and their eyes water. Lunar dust is made of sharp, abrasive and nasty particles, but how toxic is it for humans?
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37, the median value for the second prime factor of an integer
Chris Grossack's math blog and professional website.
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Microsoft unveils Majorana 1 quantum processor
Majorana 1 from Microsoft is the world’s first Quantum Processing Unit (QPU) built with a topoconductor. Discover more.
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Trillion-frame-per-second video
By using optical equipment in a totally unexpected way, MIT researchers have created an imaging system that makes light look slow.
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What is happening in the Arctic is now beyond words, so here are the pictures
The climate emergency requires actions at emergency speed for a rapid transition to a post-carbon, safe-climate future.
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Good sleep, good learning, good life
Author: Dr Piotr Wozniak Date: 2000-2018 For an extended modular version see: Science of sleep
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Catching the Great American Eclipse at 35,000 Feet
There’s nothing Alaska Airlines pilots like more than a challenge. As a company that started out flying between remote airfields deep in the Alaskan “bush,” safely navigating where other airlines can’t is in Alaska’s blood. So, for Alaska, putting a flight in the path of the Great American Eclipse wasn’t really a…
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Underwater ears everywhere
Programming note: the subscribe link was broken for a while because I am bad at computers (yet another case of "forgot to enable the systemd unit"). It's fixed now. The unsubscribe link was also broken and is now fixed but, you know, maybe that was a feature. Did wonders for reader retention.
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Johns Hopkins Launches Center for Psychedelic Research
The center, believed to be the first and largest of its kind, will use psychedelics to study the mind, identify therapies for diseases such as addiction, PTSD, Alzheimer's
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Amazon Braket – Get Started with Quantum Computing
Nearly a decade ago I wrote about the Quantum Compute Cloud on April Fool’s Day. The future has arrived and you now have the opportunity to write quantum algorithms and to run them on actual quantum computers. Here’s what we are announcing today: Amazon Braket – A fully managed service that allows scientists…
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DeepMind's WeatherNext model achieves breakthrough forecasting cyclones
WeatherNext enables accurate cyclone forecasts that can give an extra day of warning. Now we are open sourcing the model.
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Line scan camera image processing for train photography
I use my line scan camera to take cool pictures of trains and other stuff.
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Sauna effect on heart rate
We analyzed 59,000+ daily records from 256 sauna users to quantify what saunas actually do to your body. Using paired t-tests on same-day wearable data, we…
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UCLA discovers first stroke rehabilitation drug to repair brain damage (2025)
A new study by UCLA Health has discovered what researchers say is the first drug to fully reproduce the effects of physical stroke rehabilitation in model mice.
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The “432 Hz vs. 440 Hz” conspiracy theory
<p>Would you believe that there is a conspiracy theory about the way we tune musical instruments? And that this theory even involves the Nazis, chakras, and whatnot? No? Then sit down and enjoy
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How much of Thermo Fisher's antibody data has been manipulated?
We’ve documented more than 450 instances of apparent data manipulation in Thermo’s catalog
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Why it's so hard to build a jet engine
Civilization's toughest technical challenges are those that require extraordinary (and constantly improving) performance to be delivered at a low cost.