Ants: Who looks after the injured in a colony?(uni-wuerzburg.de)

98 points by hhs 3 months ago | 47 comments

Chemicals that cure malaria can kill weeds too (2017)(news.uwa.edu.au)

14 points by 6177c40f 2 years ago | 11 comments

Chemists develop new way to split water(uni-muenster.de)

58 points by geox 3 years ago | 33 comments

New research finds that ivermectin could help control malaria transmission(ndm.ox.ac.uk)

37 points by rguiscard 1 year ago | 36 comments

Andrew S. Tanenbaum Receives ACM Software System Award(vu.nl)

325 points by JacobAldridge 2 years ago | 73 comments

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam news article announcing that Andrew S. Tanenbaum received the ACM Software System Award.

Guinea worm on track to be 2nd eradicated human disease; only 10 cases in 2025(arstechnica.com)

275 points by bookofjoe 8 months ago | 124 comments

Ants that seem to defy biology – They lay eggs that hatch into another species(smithsonianmag.com)

454 points by sampo 1 year ago | 146 comments

Smithsonian magazine article on Iberian harvester ant queens that lay eggs hatching into both their own species and builder harvester ants, seemingly by cloning males.

LLMs use a surprisingly simple mechanism to retrieve some stored knowledge(news.mit.edu)

336 points by CharlesW 2 years ago | 121 comments

MIT News article on research showing LLMs often retrieve stored facts via simple linear functions, and a technique to probe what a model knows about subjects.

The technology to eradicate mosquito-borne disease exists(worksinprogress.co)

235 points by benbreen 22 days ago | 175 comments

Works in Progress magazine essay arguing that technology to eradicate mosquito-borne diseases already exists and their persistence is a choice.

Sounds emitted by plants under stress are airborne and informative(cell.com)

326 points by ecosystem 3 years ago | 113 comments

Open-access Cell paper reporting that stressed plants emit airborne ultrasonic sounds that reveal their condition and can be classified.

AI tools are spotting errors in research papers(nature.com)

555 points by kgwgk 1 year ago | 200 comments

Nature news article on a growing movement using AI and large language models to detect errors in research papers, sparked by a flawed black plastic utensils study.

New antibiotic that kills drug-resistant bacteria found in technician's garden(nature.com)

401 points by ascorbic 1 year ago | 280 comments

Nature news article about a new antibiotic molecule, found in soil from a technician's garden, that kills drug-resistant bacteria via a novel mechanism.