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2 votes
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Watch electricity hit a fork in the road at half a billion frames per second
18 votes -
This spider scientist wants us to appreciate the world's eight-legged wonders
6 votes -
Giant rats in tiny vests trained to sniff out illegally trafficked wildlife
21 votes -
Thirty-year species reintroduction experiment shows evolution unfolding in slow motion
15 votes -
Yes, we did discover the Higgs!
9 votes -
A scientific fraud. An investigation. A lab in recovery.
20 votes -
New largest prime number found! 2¹³⁶²⁷⁹⁸⁴¹-1. See all 41,024,320 digits.
36 votes -
Can we ever detect the graviton? (No, but why not?)
26 votes -
Using Euro coins as standard weights
11 votes -
2024 Nobel Prize – This year's Nobel Prize announcements will take place between 7th - 14th October 2024
19 votes -
Demis Hassabis, John M. Jumper and David Baker win the 2024 Nobel Prize for chemistry for their work on proteins
6 votes -
The hidden world of electrostatic ecology
7 votes -
Why is the speed of light so fast?
26 votes -
Botanists identify thirty-three global ‘dark spots’ with thousands of unknown plants
16 votes -
Making an atomic trampoline
13 votes -
Scores of papers by Eliezer Masliah, prominent US neuroscientist and top National Institutes of Health official, fall under suspicion
25 votes -
Patent law is broken (USA) and EU (sort of)
24 votes -
Scientific rigor proponents retract paper on benefits of scientific rigor
13 votes -
First-ever mRNA vaccine halts pancreatic cancer in its tracks
50 votes -
Ig Nobel prizes 2024: The unexpected science that won this year
14 votes -
Scientists receive Ig Nobel Prize for discovering mammals can breathe through anuses
43 votes -
When Rob Barrett surveyed one of Norway's largest seabird colonies in the '70s there were too many birds to count – stark before and after photographs reveal sharp decline
13 votes -
Study finds people are consistently and confidently wrong about those with opposing views
37 votes -
What happens when you touch a Pickle to an AM radio tower?
36 votes -
Meet the winners of the 2024 Ig Nobel Prizes
26 votes -
The theory that men evolved to hunt and women evolved to gather is wrong
58 votes -
AI for bio: State of the field
2 votes -
Did Sandia use a thermonuclear secondary in a product logo?
41 votes -
Is accidentally stumbling across the unknown a key part of science?
7 votes -
Researchers make mouse skin transparent using a common food dye
24 votes -
The asteroid-in-spring hypothesis - two paleontologists have turned on each other, each claiming to have found new evidence about the worst day on Earth
8 votes -
The Marshmallow Test and other predictors of success have bias built in, researchers say
28 votes -
No, intelligence is not like height
31 votes -
New nanogenerators achieve 140-fold power density gain, could rival solar cells
17 votes -
Nuclear breakthrough (laser excitation of nuclei) could improve clocks/measurement and detect variance in currently-believed fundamental constants
23 votes -
Eight basic rules for causal inference
9 votes -
Scientists research man missing 90% of his brain who leads a normal life
27 votes -
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.
17 votes -
This innovative device allows South American paleontologists to share fossils with the world
11 votes -
How rediscovering Neanderthals primed us for the search for extraterrestrial life
3 votes -
The impact of auditors’ gender on the quality of financial reporting: a comparative study of auditors with accounting expertise
8 votes -
Engineers develop a recipe for zero-emissions fuel: soda cans (aluminium), seawater and caffeine
34 votes -
Maglev titanium heart now whirs inside the chest of a live patient
24 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
21 votes -
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 -
Maps distort how we see the world
23 votes -
Why don’t we know how antidepressants work yet?
30 votes