US National Institutes of Health suspends dozens of pathogen studies over ‘gain-of-function’ concerns ~science Link 32 votes
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory will discover billions of dynamic objects while building up a deep map of the universe ~space astronomy Link 13 votes
US National Institutes of Health guts its first and largest study centered on women ~science Link 19 votes
Study on hydroxychloroquine by Didier Raoult and colleagues gets pulled on ethical and scientific grounds ~health medicine Link 11 votes
Scores of papers by Eliezer Masliah, prominent US neuroscientist and top National Institutes of Health official, fall under suspicion ~science Link 25 votes
AI makes racist judgement calls when asked to evaluate speakers of African American vernacular English ~tech Link 23 votes
Star botanist likely made up data about nutritional supplements, new probe finds ~science Link 11 votes
National Science Foundation halts South Pole megaproject to probe infant cosmos’ growth spurt ~space Link 8 votes
Did grave robbers plunder battlefields? Bones went to fertilizer and sugar processing, book argues. ~humanities.history Link 14 votes
By sending Mississippi river waters on a new course, engineers hope to build new land—and test ways to save a retreating coast ~enviro water Link 10 votes
Americas’ first cowboys were enslaved Africans, ancient cow DNA suggests ~humanities.history Link 24 votes
Poverty, not the poor - a systematic analysis of the relatively high stable rate of US poverty using multinational data ~finance Link 21 votes
Improving mental health by training the suppression of unwanted thoughts ~health.mental Link 14 votes
‘We’re changing the clouds.’ An unforeseen test of geoengineering is fueling record ocean warmth. ~science Link 80 votes
Cyberattack shutters major National Science Foundation-funded telescopes for more than two weeks ~science astronomy Link 18 votes
AI often mangles African languages. A network of thousands of coders and researchers is working to develop translation tools that understand their native languages ~tech Link 17 votes
Abortion laws are driving academics out of some US states—and keeping others from coming ~life education.higher work Link 29 votes
How scientific conferences are responding to US abortion bans and anti-LGBTQ+ laws ~science Link 32 votes
Lord of the Rings–quoting performance wins this year’s ‘Dance Your PhD’ contest ~science Article 783 words 5 votes
Native Americans—and their genes—traveled back to Siberia, new genomes reveal ~science Article 897 words 5 votes
An mRNA–lipid nanoparticle vaccine protects animals from twenty influenza lineages ~health medicine Link 4 votes
Finnish astronomers acquitted in defamation case related to protesting harassment – astrophysicist Christian Ott argued protests cost him postdoc position ~humanities education.higher Article 647 words 5 votes
James Webb Space Telescope reveals unpredicted bounty of bright galaxies in early universe ~space astronomy Article 1094 words 10 votes
‘Zombie papers’ just won’t die. Retracted papers by notorious fraudster still cited years later. ~science Article 890 words 9 votes
This drone has legs: Watch a flying robot perch on branches, catch a tennis ball in midair ~tech Link 8 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
Why many scientists say it’s unlikely that SARS-CoV-2 originated from a “lab leak” ~health Link 15 votes
Why vaccine safety experts put the brakes on AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine ~health medicine Article 1629 words 19 votes