For the first time, researchers have identified the remains of a sailor from the doomed 1845 Franklin expedition of the fabled Northwest Passage ~humanities.history Article 1014 words 10 votes
Only two and a half billion tyrannosaurus rex inhabited the planet in total, researchers say ~science archaeology Article 497 words 14 votes
New technique reveals centuries of secrets in locked letters ~humanities.history Article 1039 words, published Mar 2 2021 4 votes
A new coronavirus variant is spreading in New York, researchers report ~health Article 1014 words 9 votes
Researchers levitated a small tray using nothing but light ~science physics Article 2168 words 8 votes
Signal ignores proxy censorship vulnerability, bans researchers ~tech privacy Article 924 words 11 votes
70TB of Parler users’ messages, videos, and posts leaked by security researchers ~tech social media security.cyber Link 42 votes
We read the paper that forced Timnit Gebru out of Google. Here’s what it says. ~tech google Article 1230 words 19 votes
Researchers restore lost sight in mice, offering clues to reversing aging ~science biology medicine Article 1038 words 6 votes
Batteries, fuel cells powered by spinach ~science chemistry Article 601 words, published Oct 26 2020 6 votes
AI researchers use heartbeat detection to identify deepfake videos ~science Article 813 words, published Sep 3 2020 12 votes
Euronews travelled to Iceland to see how researchers are hunting down viruses – and exploring their potential uses as part of a project called Virus-X ~science biology.molecular Video 4:00 4 votes
How the pandemic could choke gender equity for female researchers in Denmark – advocacy group calls for funders and institutions to launch grant and fellowship schemes ~science Article 955 words 3 votes
ASU researchers are developing artificial intelligence that can communicate with humans within Minecraft ~tech Article 660 words 4 votes
Hangover cure successfully tested on drunk subjects in Finland – dose of 1,200 milligrams of amino acid L-cysteine was found to reduce alcohol-related nausea and headache ~science chemistry Article 20 votes
Smartphone cameras can now detect diabetes with 80% accuracy ~science medicine Article 941 words 5 votes
New techniques are helping medical researchers develop new anti-cancer drugs and gain a better understanding of how existing ones work ~science medicine Article 1311 words, published Jul 27 2020 5 votes
Researchers created amino acids and primitive membranes by simulating conditions found at scalding vents on the ocean floor ~science biology.marine Article 1310 words, published Jul 21 2020 6 votes
Researchers say they have found the world's earliest confirmed case of smallpox, revealing the disease was widespread across northern Europe during the Viking age ~humanities.history Article 683 words 3 votes
What does the world look like from a beetle’s-eye view? Researchers strapped tiny cameras to the insects’ backs to find out ~science biology Article 616 words 3 votes
Spreading rock dust on the ground could pull carbon from the air, researchers say ~enviro climate change Article 940 words 14 votes
Researchers at Cornell University concluded that an online semester would result in more COVID-19 ~health Article 1248 words 16 votes
A super sensitive dark-matter search yields strange results. Researchers say there are three possible explanations for the anomalous data: One is mundane. Two would revolutionize physics ~science physics.particle Article 772 words 4 votes
New analysis suggests that assumptions about the source of early cases in Washington state might have been wrong, but the resulting reaction may have prevented a more severe outbreak ~health Article 1544 words 4 votes
Researchers claim new internet speed record of 44.2 Tbps over a standard optical fiber cable, using a single integrated chip ~tech internet Article 400 words 9 votes
University of Oxford researchers have begun recruiting human volunteers for Phase II/III human trials of a COVID-19 vaccine ~health Article 1927 words 8 votes
Nearly half of accounts tweeting about coronavirus are likely bots ~tech social media Article 793 words 12 votes
Florida COVID-19 data chief gets sidelined and researchers cry foul ~health Article 1390 words 13 votes
'Lovers of Modena' skeletal find were both men; researchers quick to reassess their relationship ~lgbt history Article 315 words, published Sep 12 2019 6 votes
Severe limits on coronavirus testing in Brazil are hiding the true scale of the outbreak, with researchers suggesting actual case numbers are 8-16 times higher than reported ~health healthcare Article 1404 words 10 votes
Researchers call for relaxed standards in race to find coronavirus vaccine ~health Article 342 words 3 votes
People with mild symptoms can spread coronavirus, European researchers warn ~health Article 705 words 12 votes
Melbourne researchers have mapped immune responses from one of Australia’s first novel coronavirus (COVID-19) patients, showing the body’s ability to fight the virus and recover from the infection ~science biology medicine Link 9 votes
Analysis of Voatz mobile voting app by MIT researchers finds elementary security flaws ~tech security Article 1644 words 11 votes
Security researchers partner with Chrome to take down over 500 browser extensions in a fraud network affecting 1.7 million users ~tech privacy security google browsers Article 6799 words 12 votes
How Twitter's default settings enabled a security researcher to discover phone numbers for over seventeen million accounts ~tech privacy security social media Article 601 words 10 votes
Google researchers find serious privacy risks in Safari’s anti-tracking protections ~tech apple google privacy Article 844 words 9 votes
Mysterious disappearance of Greenland's medieval Norse society in the 15th century came after walruses were hunted almost to extinction, researchers have said ~humanities.history Article 278 words 4 votes
China convicts three researchers involved in gene-edited babies ~science biology Article 138 words 11 votes
Researchers used skeletal remains and ancient DNA to reconstruct the burial of a woman who lived in what is now southern Sweden 7,000 years ago ~humanities.history Article 891 words, published Nov 11 2019 4 votes
ETH researchers used a 3D printing process to produce complex and highly porous glass objects ~science Article 225 words 5 votes
Denmark’s climate aspirations going up in smoke? International researchers lambast Danes for burning wood and calling it green ~enviro energy.renewable Article 586 words 7 votes
Security researchers find several bugs in Nest security cameras ~tech security.home Article 667 words, published Aug 21 2019 10 votes
Norwegian researchers say data may point to second blast at Russian test site ~news norway russia Article 1027 words 8 votes
Swedish authorities have refused a prominent researcher's request for access to official Hammarskjold-related documents ~humanities.history Article 880 words 5 votes
Researchers at Uppsala University have successfully created the world's first paper battery ~tech Link 6 votes