Fighting a one-of-a-kind disease
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Richard Rusczyk’s worldwide math camp
6 votes -
Why probability probably doesn't exist (but it's useful to act like it does)
11 votes -
Mathematicians discover a new kind of shape that’s all over nature (3D tessellating forms)
31 votes -
A ‘yoga pill’ to end anxiety? Scientists find a brain circuit that instantly deflates stress.
15 votes -
The Business-School research scandal that just keeps getting bigger
11 votes -
Digging into the first work of modern ecology
6 votes -
The US has a cloned sheep contraband problem
27 votes -
Scores of papers by Eliezer Masliah, prominent neuroscientist and top NIH 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 -
Ig Nobel prizes 2024: The unexpected science that won this year
14 votes -
The theory that men evolved to hunt and women evolved to gather is wrong
58 votes -
Statistics are still misunderstood in the courtroom
16 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 -
Why don’t we know how antidepressants work yet?
30 votes -
Smiling robot face is made from living human skin cells
20 votes -
Gilead shot prevents all HIV cases in trial of African women
29 votes -
Star botanist likely made up data about nutritional supplements, new probe finds
11 votes -
Why we like people who ask us for favors
12 votes -
Why the pandemic probably started in a lab, in five key points
44 votes -
America's never-ending battle against flesh-eating worms
40 votes -
Wiley to shutter nineteen more journals, some tainted by fraud
20 votes -
Lemon-scented marijuana compound reduces weed’s ‘paranoia’ effect
17 votes -
Not every student needs Algebra 2. UC should be flexible on math requirement.
21 votes -
Daniel Kahneman, who plumbed the psychology of economics, dies at 90
16 votes -
Water isn't normal
24 votes -
MH370 and the sea creatures that opened a new mystery
17 votes -
Wasabi could help preserve ancient Egyptian papyrus artefacts
9 votes -
AstraZeneca unveils successes in treatment of lung cancer – best-selling Tagrisso drug slows progression of most common form of the disease at an early stage
22 votes -
Citation cartels help some mathematicians—and their universities—climb the rankings
8 votes -
‘It’s insane’: New viruslike entities found in human gut microbes
30 votes -
Seaweed could save a billion people from famine after a nuclear war
27 votes -
Transparent wood is stronger than plastic and tougher than glass
28 votes -
Genetic engineering was meant to save chestnut trees. Then there was a mistake.
23 votes -
The business of bad medicine
4 votes -
What is a math department worth?
25 votes -
What am I thankful for this year? Amazing scientific discoveries.
19 votes -
Machine learning creates a massive map of smelly molecules
14 votes -
The humbling of the maths snobs
10 votes -
Lithium discovery in US volcano could be biggest deposit ever found
39 votes -
Scientists discovered why Germany’s wild boar are radioactive
26 votes -
What does any of this have to do with physics?
41 votes -
The hunt for natural hydrogen reserves
13 votes -
Mapping arctic foxes’ spectacular solo journeys
8 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 -
The superconductor sensation has fizzled - and that's fine
40 votes