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Gluten Free Antarctica
Far below the Antarctic circle, I watch a woman cry real tears because she can’t get gluten-free toast.
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The most popular blog posts about science & space on Hacker News. 4,454 posts.
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A Trial HIV Vaccine Triggered Elusive and Essential Antibodies in Humans
DURHAM, N.C. – An HIV vaccine candidate developed at the Duke Human Vaccine Institute triggered low levels of an elusive type of broadly neutralizing HIV antibodies among a small group of people enrolled in a 2019 clinical trial.The finding, reported May 17 in the journal Cell, not only provides proof that a vaccine…
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It’s Time for Some Queueing Theory
Queueing theory is the scientific study of waiting in line. It can apply to familiar lines like those at the grocery store or bank but also to things like web s
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Test scores are not irrelevant
Some claims that test scores don’t predict college success don’t add up.
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Sound-suppressing silk can create quiet spaces
MIT researchers developed a silk fabric, which is barely thicker than a human hair, that can suppress unwanted noise and reduce noise transmission in a large room.
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Our closest worm kin regrow body parts, raising hopes of regeneration in humans
A new study of one of our closest invertebrate relatives, the acorn worm, reveals that regenerating body parts might one day be possible.
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Yes, we did discover the Higgs
Ben Recht got my attention with a tweet about his blog post "The Higgs discovery did not take place.” I’m generally a fan of Ben’s writing, but I think he’s off base on a number of issues, and I’ll explain why. [Updated Oct 23rd, 2024] Ben's …
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Forensic Ballistics: How Apollo 12 Helped Solve the Skydiver Meteorite Mystery
What can a 45-year-old mission to the Moon tell us about a
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Students invent quieter leaf blower
Patent-pending design by Hopkins undergrads could be available in stores within two years
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Starlink satellites hindering detection of near-Earth asteroids, study finds
A study of archival images from Zwicky Transient Facility shows an increase in satellite streaks.
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The big alcohol study that didn't happen
Why did a huge alcohol RCT get cancelled? A strange story of science, academia, bureaucratic maneuvering, ambition, politics, capitalism, the deep state, secret emails, and slippery ethical slopes.
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How SpaceX lands Starship (sort of)
aka: how I “accidentally” discovered what I already suspected: optimization methods are at the heart of landing rockets.
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ALICE finds first ever evidence of the antimatter partner of hyperhelium-4
The finding also represents the first evidence of the heaviest antimatter hypernucleus yet at the LHC
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Hillbilly Tracking of Low Earth Orbit Satellites
An adventure of the Southern Appalachian Space Agency, by Travis Goodspeed <travis at radiantmachines.com>, as presented at Summercon 2013...
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Log-log plot of new vs. total Covid-19 cases by country
Visualizing the exponential growth of COVID-19 across the world.
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Glucosamine Supplementation Reduces All-Cause Mortality: Study
A recent analysis published in the journal BMJ showed that glucosamine supplementation conveys around a 15% reduction of all-cause mortality.
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Scientists discover second code hiding in DNA
Finding a second code hiding in the genome casts new light on how changes to DNA impact health and disease.
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Self-healing material can build itself from carbon in the air
A new material developed at MIT can mimic plants by taking carbon dioxide from the air and turning it into a useful solid material, potentially helping in the battle against global climate change.
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Demystifying Fourier analysis
I've started learning about spectrum analysis a long time ago at university, but failed to gain a true insight in how it works under the hood. For me, it was just some magical math formulas I had to memorize and know about. I knew the theory but it didn't really click .
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LaTeX Coffee Stains (2009)
This package provides an essential feature to LaTeX that has been missing for too long. It adds a coffee stain to your documents. A lot of time can be saved by printing stains directly on the page rather than adding it manually.
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The world has probably passed peak pollution
Millions die prematurely from local air pollution, but we can reduce this number significantly.
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Fishing gear accounts for an alarming amount of plastic in oceans (2021)
Explore past press releases and news by The Nature Conservancy in the United States and around the globe.
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The rise of batteries in six charts
The unstoppable rise of batteries is leading to a domino effect that puts half of global fossil fuel demand at risk.
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Why rails buckle in Britain
Why don’t rails get hot in Europe? The truth is they do.
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The limits of "computational photography"
I was recently discussing laser etching with an engineer/font-designer friend of mine, and I wanted to show him a picture of some really good laser etching on a particular piece of optical equipment.
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Training exercise boosts brain power, Johns Hopkins researchers say
Hopkins researchers identify specific exercise that boosts memory, attention
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Scientists find first observational evidence linking black holes to dark energy
Study No. 1 in The Astrophysical Journal: A Preferential Growth Channel for Supermassive Black Holes in Elliptical Galaxies at z ≲ 2 Study No. 2 in The Astrophysical Journal Letters: Observational Evidence for Cosmological Coupling of Black Holes and Its Implications for an Astrophysical Source o