How Potatoes Evolved(nhm.ac.uk)

104 points by gmays 1 year ago | 43 comments

The largest eagle hunted unlike any other bird of prey (2021)(nhm.ac.uk)

45 points by EndXA 13 days ago | 2 comments

Natural History Museum news article from 2021 on research showing the extinct Haast's eagle of New Zealand hunted moa in a way unlike any other bird of prey.

Magical Mushroom – Europe's first industrial-scale mycelium packaging producer(magicalmushroom.com)

358 points by microflash 8 months ago | 120 comments

Homepage of Magical Mushroom Company, a European producer of mycelium-based packaging made at industrial scale.

A Microscopic Look at Snail Jaws(nhm.org)

66 points by dmbche 3 years ago | 7 comments

Face of ancient Australian 'giga-goose' revealed after fossil skull found(nhm.ac.uk)

82 points by gmays 2 years ago | 51 comments

Smithsonian Open Access(si.edu)

65 points by bookofjoe 1 year ago | 9 comments

Human brains are preconfigured with instructions for understanding the world(news.ucsc.edu)

414 points by XzetaU8 11 months ago | 284 comments

UC Santa Cruz news article reporting research suggesting early developing human brains are preconfigured with instructions for understanding the world.

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.

GPTZero finds 100 new hallucinations in NeurIPS 2025 accepted papers(gptzero.me)

917 points by segmenta 9 months ago | 489 comments

GPTZero blog post reporting its analysis of 4,841 NeurIPS 2025 accepted papers, finding at least 100 with confirmed AI-hallucinated content.

Psilocybin bests SSRI for major depression in first long-term comparison(medscape.com)

515 points by Thomvis 2 years ago | 329 comments

Medscape conference news article on the first long-term comparison finding psilocybin outperformed escitalopram for moderate to severe major depressive disorder.

Crows are even smarter than we thought(nautil.us)

443 points by dnetesn 2 years ago | 236 comments

Nautilus article by Kenna Hughes-Castleberry on new evidence that crows and other corvids have surprising mental abilities.

US could soon approve MDMA therapy(nature.com)

385 points by headalgorithm 3 years ago | 352 comments

Nature news feature on the prospect of US FDA approval of MDMA-assisted therapy and the emerging era of psychedelic medicine.