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10 votes
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When pop-up books taught popular science
9 votes -
Five in a row - the planets align in the night sky
5 votes -
How venoms are shaping medical advances
4 votes -
Forget Republicans v Democrats: Meet America’s new tribes
6 votes -
How A Teenage Girl Became the Mother of Horror: Mary Shelley combined science and the supernatural to write Frankenstein, the world’s first science-fiction novel.
3 votes -
Why you should be skeptical of the latest nutrition headlines
11 votes -
How to get that great “hoppy” beer taste without the exploding bottles
6 votes -
Nand Game - Build a computer from scratch
11 votes -
What the “grievance studies” hoax actually reveals: The headline-grabbing prank has more to do with gender than with academia
9 votes -
Cheese played a surprisingly important role in human evolution
10 votes -
Love grilled cheese or mac & cheese? Learn why young cheese melts better than aged cheese.
4 votes -
The secrets of cooking rice — the cause of recipe failure is not what you might think
10 votes -
How game design transformed Hillary for America's supporter engagement
2 votes -
Architect of Paris climate accord says Morrison government's emissions stance is 'anti-science'
4 votes -
Brewing a great cup of coffee depends on chemistry and physics
9 votes -
Does where you live affect what you eat?
7 votes -
US kids eating more fast food, healthier offerings not helping
11 votes -
Human-driven climate change is literally making Earth ‘wobble’
10 votes -
Mediterranean diet 'may help prevent depression'
3 votes -
A breakthrough for US troops: Combat-ready pizza
14 votes -
Why you literally can't overcook mushrooms
16 votes -
What is gluten? Here's how to see and feel gluten.
6 votes -
When to add salt during cooking—and why (it makes a huge difference)
25 votes -
Astronomers have found an exoplanet around the same star that Vulcan orbits in Star Trek canon
12 votes -
TESS is doing better than expected in hunt for exoplanets
13 votes -
North Carolina didn't like science on sea levels…so passed a law against it
12 votes -
Is Pluto a planet? New paper adds to decade-long debate
12 votes -
Startups flock to turn young blood into an elixir of youth
7 votes -
Tact filters
9 votes -
European science funders ban grantees from publishing in paywalled journals
16 votes -
The new science of seeing around corners
10 votes -
The 10,000-step daily goal is totally arbitrary. The popular setting for wearable fitness tech originated with a Japanese marketing campaign in the mid-1960s.
10 votes -
The science of the tennis grunt
5 votes -
Can you help me source this climate change map?
7 votes -
Fifty-four oenology students described white wine dyed red with descriptors strongly correlated with red wine
9 votes -
A study on the online "filter bubble" found that liberals and conservatives were actually recommended similar stories on Google News, representing a fairly homogeneous set of mainstream news sources
8 votes -
What does it take to impeach a president?
3 votes -
CMU engineers find innovative way to make a low-cost 3D bioprinter
3 votes -
Private dog cloning, what are your thoughts?
I had a discussion today about the ethics of cloning your pets. It's a thing you can currently pay (a lot) of money for, but I don't really see much discussion about it, even though it's absurdly...
I had a discussion today about the ethics of cloning your pets. It's a thing you can currently pay (a lot) of money for, but I don't really see much discussion about it, even though it's absurdly sci-fi and a little crazy to me that it's a real business.
So what are your thoughts? Is it ethical? Is it a bit weird? Is it perfectly healthy?
17 votes -
Democrats should get real with White working-class voters
13 votes -
Delayed impact of fair machine learning
4 votes -
Can society scale? If you want to understand how group dynamics work online, look no further than Numtot.
8 votes -
Bizarre “rogue planet” found lurking in Earth’s galactic neighborhood
9 votes -
Computer science as a lost art
13 votes -
Thinking allowed
3 votes -
Radar evidence of subglacial liquid water on Mars
21 votes -
Meat and Salt and Sparks by Rich Larson [Sci-Fi] [7365 words]
tor.com/2018/06/06/meat-and-salt-and-sparks-rich-larson/ A futuristic murder mystery about detective partners—a human and an enhanced chimpanzee—who are investigating why a woman murdered an...
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A futuristic murder mystery about detective partners—a human and an enhanced chimpanzee—who are investigating why a woman murdered an apparently random stranger on the subway
Found this today and read it for my morning break. I'm worried about spoilers, but I'm curious about people's thoughts on being a non-human intelligence and the subsequent integration into human society. Did this short evoke any particular emotions in you?
9 votes -
The Evolution of Science Fiction
7 votes -
Chinese researchers achieve stunning quantum-entanglement record
2 votes