Scientists unlock brain's natural clean-up system for new treatments for stroke(monash.edu)

196 points by PaulHoule 9 months ago | 43 comments

A rock that might hold the oldest form of complex life on Earth(news.unsw.edu.au)

71 points by jayhoon 2 years ago | 14 comments

Researchers design wearable tech that can sense glucose levels more accurately(uwaterloo.ca)

358 points by ndrwnaguib 1 year ago | 145 comments

University of Waterloo news release about researchers developing a needle-free wrist-worn device that tracks blood glucose levels more accurately.

Making espresso with ultrasound(unsw.edu.au)

58 points by darktoto 4 months ago | 60 comments

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2026(nobelprize.org)

6 points by marc__1 21 days ago | 2 comments

The official Nobel Prize website's landing page for the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

AI may be making us think and write more alike(dornsife.usc.edu)

190 points by giuliomagnifico 6 months ago | 186 comments

There is no epidemic of loneliness, but there is an epidemic of scurvy(experimental-history.com)

59 points by luu 1 month ago | 31 comments

An Experimental History Substack essay by Adam Mastroianni arguing there is no loneliness epidemic but there is an epidemic of scurvy.

The Art of Finishing(bytedrum.com)

609 points by emmorts 2 years ago | 147 comments

A personal blog essay on the ByteDrum blog about a developer's pile of unfinished side projects and the challenge of actually finishing them.

Loyal workers are selectively and ironically targeted for exploitation(sciencedirect.com)

341 points by ck45 3 years ago | 219 comments

Abstract page for a Journal of Experimental Social Psychology paper finding that loyal workers are selectively targeted for exploitation by managers.

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.

My old job feels distant now(pinecoder.dev)

28 points by speckx 10 days ago | 27 comments

A personal blog post on pinecoder.dev reflecting on how the author's previous job now feels distant.

Announcing three new discoveries in mathematics, computer science, and physics(openai.com)

471 points by jonluca 4 hours ago | 177 comments

OpenAI post announcing AI-produced results in harmonic analysis, complexity theory (refuting ETH), and quantum field theory, and describing academic collaborations to verify them.