Things I Won't Work With: Dimethylcadmium (2013)(science.org)

283 points by Bluestein 2 years ago | 165 comments

Prevention of HIV(science.org)

605 points by etiam 2 years ago | 251 comments

A Science.org blog post about HIV prevention; the capture shows only a Cloudflare human-verification challenge.

Space is a latent sequence: A theory of the hippocampus(science.org)

135 points by XzetaU8 2 years ago | 31 comments

The Anatomy of Brainwashing(science.org)

36 points by wjb3 2 years ago | 7 comments

Fraud, so much fraud(science.org)

1421 points by nabla9 2 years ago | 775 comments

A Science magazine blog post about scientific research fraud; the capture shows only a Cloudflare human-verification challenge.

Confronting Risks of Mirror Life(science.org)

12 points by samber 1 year ago | 2 comments

Research suggests Big Bang may have taken place inside a black hole(port.ac.uk)

705 points by zaik 1 year ago | 563 comments

University of Portsmouth blog post in which Professor Enrique Gaztanaga proposes a theory that the Big Bang may have occurred inside a black hole.

Biology might not be quantum, but its math is quantumlike(quantamagazine.org)

112 points by pseudolus 1 month ago | 49 comments

Quanta Magazine article arguing that while biology may not rely on quantum effects, the mathematics describing biological systems resembles quantum math.

Scientific fraud has become an 'industry,' analysis finds(science.org)

402 points by pseudolus 1 year ago | 350 comments

Science magazine news article reporting an analysis finding that sophisticated global networks are infiltrating journals to publish fake scientific papers.

In Hilbert space, all things are quantumly possible(quantamagazine.org)

130 points by unprovable 5 days ago | 80 comments

Quanta Magazine explainer on Hilbert space, the abstract mathematical realm used to describe quantum phenomena.

Deep learning gets the glory, deep fact checking gets ignored(rachel.fast.ai)

549 points by chmaynard 1 year ago | 134 comments

Rachel Thomas blog post on how a high-profile Nature paper using a Transformer to predict enzyme functions contained many errors that received far less attention than the original result.

A New Experiment Meta-Strategy(chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com)

26 points by surprisetalk 1 month ago | 1 comments

A Substack post by an amateur physicist describing a new strategy for doing home experiments after reorganizing a messy lab to fit limited free evenings.