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5 votes
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Coral discovered in uncharted Danish waters – a mapping project led by the conservationist Klaus Thymann has revealed a rich, varied habitat off the coast of Jutland
5 votes -
The mysterious case of man who can read letters—but not numbers—exposes roots of consciousness
15 votes -
New techniques are helping medical researchers develop new anti-cancer drugs and gain a better understanding of how existing ones work
5 votes -
You want to see my data? I thought we were friends
18 votes -
Detection of electrical signaling between tomato plants raises interesting questions
10 votes -
Researchers created amino acids and primitive membranes by simulating conditions found at scalding vents on the ocean floor
6 votes -
Scientists are 3D printing miniature human organs to test coronavirus drugs
5 votes -
Twenty-five years after returning, Yellowstone’s wolves are the most studied but misunderstood good boys
7 votes -
Why experiments matter and why we hate them
6 votes -
What's the color of an atom?
2 votes -
Terry Tao on what makes good mathematical notation
4 votes -
The oddball dolphin of Dingle: Living solo for decades in an Irish harbor, a dolphin named Fungie has taught us something about solitary cetaceans—maybe they prefer to be alone
4 votes -
Alone on a mountaintop, awaiting a very hard rain
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Microcentury
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The African continent is very slowly peeling apart. Scientists say a new ocean is being born.
7 votes -
The last giraffes on earth - The planet’s tallest animal is in far greater danger than people might think
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What does the world look like from a beetle’s-eye view? Researchers strapped tiny cameras to the insects’ backs to find out
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Why line-dried laundry smells so good
8 votes -
Hadrons are much more than the familiar protons and neutrons
3 votes -
Colorado is not a rectangle, it’s not even a quadrilateral, in fact it is a hexahectaenneacontakaiheptagon
19 votes -
What a mass of rotting carcasses taught scientists – when 323 reindeer were killed by lightning on a remote Norwegian plateau, their bodies were left for nature to take its course
6 votes -
Division by zero in type theory: a FAQ
4 votes -
Why do prime numbers make these spirals?
12 votes -
Canada's sparrows are singing a new song. You'll hear it soon
8 votes -
A highly contagious, often lethal rabbit virus arrives in the United States
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ThorCon's thorium converter reactor
9 votes -
Lights and shadows
4 votes -
MAPfrappe
3 votes -
The Monty Hall problem
22 votes -
Advances in weather prediction
3 votes -
How weed eaters work (at 62,000 frames per second)
5 votes -
What an underground nuclear test actually looks like
8 votes -
A deep-sea soft coral garden habitat has been discovered in Greenlandic waters by scientists, using an innovative and low-cost deep-sea video camera
6 votes -
The true story of Kudzu, the vine that never truly ate the South
8 votes -
The rapid sharing of pandemic research shows there is a better way to filter good science from bad
7 votes -
The long-forgotten remains of a giant wombat-like animal that roamed Australia twenty-five million years ago has revealed an all new family of ancient marsupials
8 votes -
A year on, first patient to get gene editing for sickle cell disease is thriving
8 votes -
Iceland hit by thousands of quakes and threat of volcanic eruption – the island nation has experienced increased seismic activity in the past month
10 votes -
Paper and interactive demo: Immersive Light Field Video with a Layered Mesh Representation
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A super sensitive dark-matter search yields strange results. Researchers say there are three possible explanations for the anomalous data: One is mundane. Two would revolutionize physics
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Does anyone have resources for an introduction to semidefinite programming?
I'm interested in the subject, but don't know where to begin investigating it. I tried to look over the code for SeDuMi, but it is much more massive than I had realized. I have a background in...
I'm interested in the subject, but don't know where to begin investigating it. I tried to look over the code for SeDuMi, but it is much more massive than I had realized. I have a background in mathematics, if anyone can point me towards a textbook.
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Did Europe have more mutations through its history?
This is something weird to me. I think skin color is pretty diverse no matter where you go, or at least, I don't know enough to say otherwise. But take hair color. Europe has more diversity in...
This is something weird to me. I think skin color is pretty diverse no matter where you go, or at least, I don't know enough to say otherwise. But take hair color. Europe has more diversity in hair color than almost anywhere else. Same with eye color. Why is this? Is it just because I interact with more people of European heritage on day to day business, or has Europe actually had more mutations which affect hair color, eye color, etc? Or is it that Europe, being a crossroads has had more people immigrate through it.
If this is racist, it's unintentional, this is just an observation, which I've been unable to find an answer to.
If you have an answer, a link to a paper would be great.
Edit: A point against what I just wrote that I thought of: Asia has both mono and double eyelids, which is something Europe doesn't have. Native americans don't count either for or against, since they immigrated fairly late in a small group, which also explains why almost all native americans are type O
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Karl Friston: Active inference and artificial curiosity
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CERN makes bold push to build $23-billion super collider
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Blowing bubbles: Soapy spheres pop pollen on fruit trees
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The boring billion - The world before plate tectonics
7 votes -
Jurassic Park dinosaurs illustrated with modern science
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Helping or harming? The effect of trigger warnings on individuals with trauma histories.
Publication: Helping or Harming? The Effect of Trigger Warnings on Individuals with Trauma Histories. Pre-print version (for people, like me, who don't have access to the published version):...
Publication: Helping or Harming? The Effect of Trigger Warnings on Individuals with Trauma Histories.
Pre-print version (for people, like me, who don't have access to the published version): https://www.researchgate.net/publication/334380654_Helping_or_Harming_The_Effect_of_Trigger_Warnings_on_Individuals_with_Trauma_Histories
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British farmers need all the help science can offer. Time to allow gene editing
12 votes