New research finds that user affiliations on Reddit can be used to predict which subreddits will turn so toxic they eventually get banned ~tech social media Article 1299 words, published Aug 6 2019 30 votes
Futurology: how a group of visionaries looked beyond the possible a century ago and predicted today’s world ~misc Article 3539 words, published Aug 22 2019 6 votes
NASA's Dragonfly spacecraft, resembling a large quadcopter drone, will fly through the orange clouds of Titan searching for signs of life ~space rocketry Article 2538 words 8 votes
What are the ethical consequences of immortality technology? ~humanities philosophy Article 1255 words, published Aug 8 2017 9 votes
The North Atlantic ocean current, which warms northern Europe, may be slowing ~enviro climate change Article 417 words 6 votes
Scientists from the University of Borås are exploring the possibility of converting old pieces of glutinous waste into yarn ~food Article 383 words, published Jun 11 2019 4 votes
A conversation with the team that made bread with 4500-year-old yeast from ancient Egyptian pottery ~food baking history Article 2433 words 13 votes
The life and death of an Instagram fish - What one funny-looking fish taught us about evolution, the internet, and the monsters we create ~tech social media internet Article 5616 words, published Jul 19 2019 7 votes
Detailed maps of the donors powering the 2020 Democratic campaigns ~misc politics Article 900 words 11 votes
The empty radicalism of the climate apocalypse: What would it mean to get serious about climate change? ~enviro climate change Article 5848 words, published Jun 19 2019 13 votes
A mathematician has resolved the Sensitivity Conjecture, a nearly thirty-year-old problem in computer science ~science mathematics Article 1944 words 24 votes
Give political power to ordinary people: To fight elite capture of the state, it’s time to consider sortition, or the assignment of political power through lotteries ~misc politics Article 2143 words 14 votes
Airborne concentrations and chemical considerations of radioactive ruthenium from an undeclared major nuclear release in 2017 ~science Article 3311 words, published Jul 26 2019 13 votes
Watch the Ridgecrest earthquake shatter the desert floor in stunning before-and-after images ~science Article 12 votes
US President Donald Trump’s electoral college edge could grow in 2020, rewarding polarizing campaign ~misc politics Article 2381 words 8 votes
USDA expected to lose two-thirds of research staff in move to Kansas City ~enviro Article 939 words 12 votes
Science and sustainability may clash on the Moon: Balancing the mining of lunar ice between colonization and astrobiological research ~space Article 1505 words 4 votes
Danish architecture firm COBE has won an international competition for a new science museum in Lund ~design architecture Article 648 words 5 votes
So far cultured meat has been burgers – the next big challenge is animal-free steaks ~food meat Article 1138 words 6 votes
NASA chooses Saturn’s moon Titan as its next destination as part of Project DragonFly—a drone mission to explore Titan's surface over two years ~space Article 410 words 28 votes
Zach Weinersmith, the cartoonist behind Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal and co-author of SOONISH, does a Q&A ~comics Link 12 votes
NASA rover on Mars detects high amounts of methane gas, hinting at possibility of life ~space Article 820 words 8 votes
NASA will conduct a delicate rescue mission to free a probe trapped just inches below the Red Planet’s surface ~space rocketry Article 555 words 6 votes
The case for room-temperature foods: There are many dishes and delicacies that benefit from being served at room temperature ~food cooking Article 9 votes
Ancient Babylonian astronomers calculated Jupiter’s position from the area under a time-velocity graph ~space astronomy Link 7 votes
Boaty McBoatface makes major climate change discovery on maiden outing ~enviro climate change Article 134 words 14 votes
Trump's latest government overhaul aims to cut advisory panels by one-third ~news usa politics Article 3 votes
C.S. Peirce on science and belief ~humanities philosophy Article 4029 words, published Apr 16 2019 4 votes
Here's the trick to caramelizing onions: There is no trick. The best caramelized onions cook low and slow. ~food cooking Article 10 votes
Quantum computing is a marathon, not a sprint ~science physics Article 972 words, published Apr 21 2019 5 votes
Researchers strapped video cameras on sixteen cats and let them do their thing. Here’s what they found. (Q&A with Maren Huck about her recent study in Applied Animal Behaviour Science) ~science Article 808 words, published May 30 2019 9 votes
Science institute that advised EU and UN 'actually industry lobby group' ~health Article 1057 words 10 votes
The birth of science in a darkened room: The father of modern optics could not have succeeded had he not feigned madness ~humanities.history Article 900 words 6 votes
Defeating the voters: Across the United States, state autocrats are spurning democratic majorities ~humanities Article 2142 words, published May 14 2019 15 votes
Liverpool is finishing a phenomenal season - thanks in part to an unrivaled reliance on data and analytics ~sports.football Article 3527 words 3 votes
The methane detectives: On the trail of a global warming mystery ~enviro climate change Article 3995 words 6 votes