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6 votes
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Knot theory: How the most useless branch of math could save your life
15 votes -
Searching for dark matter with the world's most sensitive radio
8 votes -
Scientists discovered why Germany’s wild boar are radioactive
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The rediscovery of circadian rhythms
29 votes -
The golf ball paradox
11 votes -
I’m so sorry for psychology’s loss, whatever it is
40 votes -
A University of British Columbia study gave fifty homeless people $7,500 each and debunks stereotypes about homeless people’s spending habits
34 votes -
How far can you jump from a swing?
15 votes -
Who is likely to believe in conspiracy theories?
35 votes -
Live roundworm found in Australian woman's brain in world-first discovery
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The veery thrush will time its migrations months in advance to avoid dangerous storms in the Atlantic Ocean. How are these birds so attuned to the climate?
14 votes -
What does any of this have to do with physics?
41 votes -
Ig Nobel Prize winner Higashiyama Atsuki and the “Between-Legs Effect” mystery
40 votes -
How a brain implant and AI gave a woman with paralysis her voice back
15 votes -
Scientists release the first complete sequence of a human Y chromosome
19 votes -
The hunt for natural hydrogen reserves
13 votes -
Mapping arctic foxes’ spectacular solo journeys
8 votes -
July 2023 was the hottest month on record
29 votes -
‘We’re changing the clouds.’ An unforeseen test of geoengineering is fueling record ocean warmth
80 votes -
Cyberattack shutters major NSF-funded telescopes for more than two weeks
18 votes -
Ancient fires drove large mammals extinct, study suggests
15 votes -
National Ignition Facility fusion societal energy hype
19 votes -
Turning milk into clothing
8 votes -
White-nose syndrome in bats was detected in Texas in February 2020. Scientists are only now understanding the population loss.
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Chromium is showing immense promise as a cheap, plentiful alternative to metals used in smartphone screens and solar cells
11 votes -
Brain recordings capture musicality of speech — with help from Pink Floyd
8 votes -
The superconductor sensation has fizzled - and that's fine
40 votes -
US scientists repeat fusion ignition breakthrough for 2nd time
80 votes -
Muon g-2 doubles down with latest measurement, explores uncharted territory in search of new physics
21 votes -
Are there politics in mathematics?
Curious if there are movements within the governance or research pertaining to the field that act to promote or suppress certain ideas? Was watching the “Infinity explained in 5 different levels”...
Curious if there are movements within the governance or research pertaining to the field that act to promote or suppress certain ideas? Was watching the “Infinity explained in 5 different levels” and thought… maybe there are trends for or against interpretations and/or abstractions that get a rise in people…
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There’s far more scientific fraud than anyone wants to admit
28 votes -
Too much ecological fallacy with health studies
13 votes -
Wobbling muon experiment could reveal a fifth force of nature — if the results hold up
20 votes -
Butterfly-inspired films create vibrant colors while passively cooling objects
9 votes -
Researchers engineer bacteria that can detect tumor DNA (in mice)
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Scripps Institution of Oceanography’s FLIP vessel decommissioned after sixty years
10 votes -
Study: People expect others to mirror their own selfishness, generosity
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Man bitten by stray cat contracts infection unknown to science
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Cracking the black box of deep sequence-based protein-protein interaction prediction
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Scientists discover new ecosystem underneath hydrothermal vents
20 votes -
Ancient skull found in China is unlike any human seen before
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Superconductor megathread
Hey everyone, As a few of you may know, there was a paper released a few days ago claiming that an Room-Temperature Ambient-Pressure Superconductor (RTAPS) was created. You can see the original...
Hey everyone,
As a few of you may know, there was a paper released a few days ago claiming that an Room-Temperature Ambient-Pressure Superconductor (RTAPS) was created. You can see the original paper here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.12008
To bring things into perspective if this holds true we would likely dispense with energy and transportation concerns. It would be akin to the discovery of fire, penicillin or the transistor. A groundbreaking change. See here for a more detailed, bullish list of things it can help with: https://nitter.net/Andercot/status/1685088625187495936
There are many communities that are discussing this. The best summary I was able to find is here: https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/claims-of-room-temperature-and-ambient-pressure-superconductor.1106083/page-17
There is still a very much active debate there (and elsewhere online) of people on the viability of the original people. Many are pessimistic that the evidence is scant and that the original publication does not hold its water. An interesting summary of the sentiment of a part of the community can be found through the (faux) betting market of Manifold here: https://manifold.markets/QuantumObserver/will-the-lk99-room-temp-ambient-pre
On the link above they are also diligently tracking any replication attempts. Currently we are at the stage were theoretical simulations have validated the possibility of the purported materials to be superconductors (https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.16892).
Finally, a nice replication attempt that tried to make the creation process better and demonstrated some of the effects required to prove superconductivity (scroll up): https://twitter.com/iris_IGB/status/1685804254718459904
This is very exciting, because even if some properties are valid, it gives a mjor boost to the whole field.
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North Atlantic Oscillation contributes to 'cold blob' in Atlantic Ocean
10 votes -
Immediate effects of mobile phone app for depressed mood in young adults with subthreshold depression: A pilot randomized controlled trial
14 votes -
We need more research on how CO2 affects cognition
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Mundane participation: Power imbalances in youth media use
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Storing dead people at -196°C
44 votes -
Superconductor breakthrough replicated, twice, in preliminary testing
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/superconductor-breakthrough-replicated-twice
48 votes -
Artificial intelligence and internet of things for sustainable farming and smart agriculture
6 votes