Why the new pollution literature is credible ~enviro pollution Article 788 words, published Dec 1 2021 4 votes
This drone has legs: Watch a flying robot perch on branches, catch a tennis ball in midair ~tech Link 8 votes
Human computer: The forgotten women's profession ~life.women Article 1708 words, published Nov 2 2021 5 votes
Were the Norse the first to settle the Azores? Seafarers may have come and gone from lush archipelago more than 1000 years ago ~humanities.history Link 7 votes
Nearly 500 Mesoamerican monuments revealed by laser mapping—many for the first time ~humanities.history Link 5 votes
David Shor is telling US Democrats what they don’t want to hear ~misc politics Article 5801 words 8 votes
Folding@Home's Covid Moonshot program to receive $10M grant ~health medicine Article 621 words 7 votes
There is no algorithm for truth (presentation by Tom Scott) ~tech social media Video 59:34, published Oct 24 2019 7 votes
Why many scientists say it’s unlikely that SARS-CoV-2 originated from a “lab leak” ~health Link 15 votes
Evidence of fraud in an influential field experiment about dishonesty ~science Article 2882 words 6 votes
Google’s new ‘time crystals’ could be a breakthrough for long-awaited quantum computers ~comp Article 802 words 12 votes
JPL's plan for the next Mars helicopter: After Ingenuity's success, they want to go much, much bigger ~space Article 2948 words 6 votes
Physicists face stagnation if they continue to treat the philosophy of science as a joke ~humanities philosophy Link 10 votes
The success of Iceland's 'four-day week' trial has been greatly overstated ~life work Article 866 words 13 votes
Neurotype-matching, but not being autistic, influences self and observer ratings of interpersonal rapport ~science Article 7059 words 12 votes
Why some biologists and ecologists think social media is a risk to humanity ~science biology Article 2606 words 15 votes
Scientists and economists sold Karl Popper’s ‘falsification’ idea to the world. They have much to answer for ~humanities philosophy Article 3141 words, published Feb 16 2021 7 votes
This is the only possible world ~humanities philosophy Article 2162 words, published Jun 2 2021 4 votes
NASA has selected two new missions to study Venus, expected to launch in 2028 - 2030 ~space Article 16 votes
Is gerrymandering about to become more difficult? ~misc politics Article 120 words, published May 27 2021 14 votes
The doomed mouse utopia that inspired the ‘Rats of NIMH’. Dr. John Bumpass Calhoun spent the ’60s and ’70s playing god to thousands of rodents. ~science psychology.comparative Article 1444 words, published Sep 14 2016 10 votes
Politically polarized brains share an intolerance of uncertainty ~science psychology Article 806 words 5 votes
If I fits I sits: A citizen science investigation into illusory contour susceptibility in domestic cats ~science biology Article 360 words 20 votes
Why did the Democratic and Republican parties switch platforms? ~humanities.history Article 620 words, published Nov 2 2020 6 votes
Mars has right ingredients for present-day microbial life beneath its surface, study finds ~space Article 367 words 8 votes
The Polish doctors who used science to outwit the Nazis ~humanities.history Article 7684 words, published Aug 14 2017 8 votes
Quantum computing’s reproducibility crisis: Majorana fermions ~science physics Article 1907 words 9 votes
How the slowest computer programs illuminate math’s fundamental limits ~science mathematics Article 1732 words 8 votes