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5 votes
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Engineers develop a recipe for zero-emissions fuel: soda cans (aluminium), seawater and caffeine
14 votes -
"Dark oxygen" production defies knowledge of the deep ocean, potentially upends standard model for discovering life on other planets
31 votes -
You don't descend from all your ancestors
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Discovery of a new primitive microcontinent between Greenland and Canada could help scientists understand how microcontinents form
14 votes -
Stephen Hawking Archive made available to historians and researchers
17 votes -
The unexpected poetry of PhD acknowledgements
29 votes -
Maps distort how we see the world
23 votes -
Why don’t we know how antidepressants work yet?
30 votes -
Genomic prediction of IQ is modern snake oil
11 votes -
Denmark's Museum of Evolution displays a rare, 97% complete skeleton of a Camarasaurus Grandis, a sauropod discovered in Wyoming
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How AI revolutionized protein science, but didn’t end it
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This is the first animal ever found that doesn't need oxygen to survive
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The misplaced incentives in academic publishing
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Breakthrough in nuclear spectroscopy would lead to more accurate clocks
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Paul Meehl’s philosophical psychology
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Ozempic and Wegovy linked to rare blindness risk, study finds
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High-altitude cave used by Tibetan Buddhists yields a Denisovan fossil
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Does anyone have experience working as an independent researcher?
Ive been working in engineering for a few years now. Ive gotten pretty good at my job, and Ive learned a lot. But it was never really my intention to work at a big corporation my whole life. When...
Ive been working in engineering for a few years now. Ive gotten pretty good at my job, and Ive learned a lot. But it was never really my intention to work at a big corporation my whole life.
When I was a kid, on TV there were all these scientists and researchers who just had money to do research somehow. They didnt go to an office or go to meetings, they just had funding somehow to go do science stuff. There was often a big lab built right into their home so they could just wake up and tinker around with stuff. That was the dream for me growing up.
I could always just keep working where I am now, but I cant really do the kind of research I want within the normal structured environment that big companies want me to work in. I want to work on a difficult problem that I would expect to take years of experimentation before I would even hope of making any big breakthroughs.
Im wondering if anyone here has ever done any kind of work as an independent researcher. Like, living off grant money or something like that. Ive been looking at SBIR/STTR grants as a possible first step, but that would only get me 3 years, and after that Id need to find a continued income source.
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Smiling robot face is made from living human skin cells
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For many Olympic medalists, silver stings more than bronze
14 votes -
Deriving mammalian DNA methylation predictors for maximum life span, gestation time and age at sexual maturity
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Collecting sex-crazed zombie cicadas on speed: Scientists track a bug-controlling super-sized fungus
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Texas abortion ban linked to 13% increase in infant and newborn deaths
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Second Canadian scientist alleges brain illness investigation was shut down
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Ahmes, the first known maths author
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Gilead shot prevents all HIV cases in trial of African women
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Ten myths about hunger
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Neutrinos: The inscrutable “ghost particles” driving scientists crazy
20 votes -
Star botanist likely made up data about nutritional supplements, new probe finds
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Elephants call each other by name, study finds
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Why we like people who ask us for favors
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Size matters? "Size" dissatisfaction and gun ownership in America.
28 votes -
The Sydler π/4 polyhedron. The shape that should be impossible.
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Paper showcasing a simulation of gravitational waves produced by a warp drive
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Researchers solve 2,000-year-old mystery of the shipworm
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Male birth control gel (that is applied to the shoulders) is safe and effective, new trial findings show
72 votes -
Internet addiction affects the behavior and development of adolescents
8 votes -
Biologists discovered a widespread protein that abruptly shuts down a cell’s activity — and turns it back on just as fast
20 votes -
Why the pandemic probably started in a lab, in five key points (gifted link)
44 votes -
It's weirder than I thought. How cicadas make noise (in ultra slow motion).
21 votes -
See the most detailed map of human brain matter ever created
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Scientists figured out why orcas have been sinking boats for the last four years [turns out it's juveniles just having fun]
47 votes -
Better depression relief with electromagnetic treatment
8 votes -
Why are plants green? To reduce the noise in photosynthesis.
25 votes -
Frozen human brain tissue was successfully revived for the first time
34 votes -
UNM researchers find microplastics in canine and human testicular tissue
23 votes -
Menthol inhalation may boost cognitive ability in Alzheimer’s
19 votes -
How much research is being written by large language models?
14 votes -
The complex question of screen influence on youth
14 votes