The existence of a new kind of magnet has been confirmed(newscientist.com)

287 points by revicon 2 years ago | 85 comments

The superconductivity of layered graphene(newscientist.com)

126 points by westurner 1 year ago | 30 comments

We now know how kestrels stay perfectly still while hovering(newscientist.com)

4 points by robwwilliams 2 years ago | 1 comments

Mathematicians have found a hidden 'reset button' for undoing rotation(newscientist.com)

165 points by mikhael 1 year ago | 101 comments

AI comes up with battery design that uses 70 per cent less lithium(newscientist.com)

33 points by Hary06 2 years ago | 21 comments

Magnetism may have given life its molecular asymmetry(quantamagazine.org)

84 points by rbanffy 3 years ago | 14 comments

LK-99 isn’t a superconductor(nature.com)

2063 points by Brajeshwar 3 years ago | 679 comments

Nature news article from August 2023 explaining how researchers determined that LK-99 is not a room-temperature superconductor.

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.

Nazi Germany had no hope of making an atomic bomb, uranium cubes reveal(science.org)

97 points by xqcgrek2 24 days ago | 47 comments

Science magazine news article reporting that analysis of uranium cubes shows Nazi Germany's experimental reactor lacked enough uranium and heavy water to succeed.

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.

The sun's magnetic field is about to flip(space.com)

351 points by Brajeshwar 2 years ago | 155 comments

Space.com news article explaining that the sun's magnetic field is about to reverse during solar maximum and what effects to expect on Earth.

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.