The golden quarter—Some of our greatest cultural and technological achievements took place between 1945 and 1971. Why has progress stalled?
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The Ideal Mathematician
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'Ghost' DNA from unknown ancestors found in West Africans
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Beyond identical or fraternal: Six rare types of twins
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Dopamine and temporal difference learning: A fruitful relationship between neuroscience and AI
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This is the (co)end, my only (co)friend
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A brief history of quantum mechanics
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Mathematicians prove universal law of turbulence
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New Coronavirus Protease Structure Available
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Russian and Egyptian multiplication
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This equation (the logistic map) will change how you see the world
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Happy Universal Palindrome Day!
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A British cobbler had his thumb replaced with a big toe. He’d lost the digit while mending a shoe, but is now back at work with a toe grafted onto his hand.
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Amateur astronomers have helped discover a new kind of northern lights, known as dunes
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Arvind Narayanan: How to recognize AI snake oil
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Mt. Þorbjörn, Reykjanes – Icelandic volcano swell signals potential eruption
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Scientists just used a supercomputer to make a living organism from scratch
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Ten years after vaccination was introduced, no HPV16/18 infections were found in sexually active 16-18 year old females in England according to public health data
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The real experiments that inspired Frankenstein
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Australians are increasingly being diagnosed with cancers that will do them no harm if left undetected or untreated.
A news article: Patients suffer invasive treatments for harmless cancers The study itself: Estimating the magnitude of cancer overdiagnosis in Australia
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Jumping worms are taking over North American forests
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Genetically modify bacteria in three simple steps - Heat shock
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Going supercritical
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Scientists synthesize the voice of 3000 year old mummy
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A watershed moment for protein structure prediction
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New microscopy technique shows cells’ 3D ultrastructure in new detail
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The other dark matter candidate
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The plant ecology of the Los Angeles River
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An examination of over 4700 clinical trials found that less than 45% of them reported their results on time, despite it being a legal requirement
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Big data+small bias << Small data+zero bias
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Will any crap we put into graphene increase its electrocatalytic effect?
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From their balloons, the first aeronauts transformed our view of the world
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Impacts Project: Low-resolution PDF
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Why scientists fall for precariously balanced rocks
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Research identifies new route for tackling drug resistance in skin cancer cells
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Taal volcano spews lava, ash as fears of 'hazardous eruption' persist in the Philippines
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That time the Mediterranean Sea disappeared
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Gene-drive technology could alter entire species, help eliminate malaria and prevent extinctions, but assessing the risks is difficult
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The replication crisis of scientific papers and why it's happening
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A microbial map of the city – Boston, USA
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Toward a grand unified theory of snowflakes
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DNA animations by wehi.tv for science-art exhibition
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Earth is missing a huge part of its crust. Now we may know why.
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What are lost continents, and why are we discovering so many?
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New South Wales and Victoria just jumped 1.8 metres north
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How an Alzheimer’s ‘cabal’ thwarted progress toward a cure
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China convicts three researchers involved in gene-edited babies
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Erythranthe Peregrina - The flower species born from a sterile hybrid. Twice.
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Blind bags: How toy makers are making a fortune with child gambling
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Making carbonated water by burning diamonds
10 votes