Mechanically strong yet metabolizable plastic breaks down in seawater(science.org)

134 points by anigbrowl 1 year ago | 101 comments

Heritability of intrinsic human life span is about 50%(science.org)

159 points by XzetaU8 8 months ago | 106 comments

The Continuing Crisis, Part IX: Inside the NIH Now(science.org)

70 points by etiam 1 year ago | 30 comments

Gene behind orange fur in cats found at last(science.org)

5 points by jyunwai 1 year ago | 0 comments

An Illustrated Guide to Hippo Castration (2014)(science.org)

68 points by joebig 9 months ago | 28 comments

Britain's postwar sugar craze confirms harms of sweet diets in early life(science.org)

205 points by rbanffy 2 years ago | 105 comments

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 HIV vaccine shows unprecedented success in preclinical study(lji.org)

615 points by codebyaditya 3 months ago | 262 comments

La Jolla Institute for Immunology news release on a new HIV vaccine approach that produced high levels of HIV-neutralizing antibodies in non-human primates.

We need scientific dissidents(chronicle.com)

355 points by Georgelemental 3 years ago | 848 comments

Chronicle of Higher Education opinion essay arguing that the early artificial consensus on Covid's origins shows the need for scientific dissidents.

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.

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.

There are no new ideas in AI, only new datasets(blog.jxmo.io)

448 points by bilsbie 1 year ago | 240 comments

Jack Morris essay arguing that major AI breakthroughs, including LLMs, came from new datasets rather than new ideas or methods.