Charging electric vehicles 5x faster in subfreezing temps(news.umich.edu)

148 points by gnabgib 1 year ago | 112 comments

New tech turns seawater into drinking water without tons of chemicals(news.umich.edu)

4 points by openmaze 1 year ago | 0 comments

Tumor-destroying sound waves receive FDA approval for liver treatment in humans(news.umich.edu)

214 points by elorant 3 years ago | 31 comments

Groundwater depletion in India may triple due to climate warming, study finds(news.umich.edu)

59 points by myshpa 3 years ago | 22 comments

Research shows plant-based polymers can disappear within seven months(today.ucsd.edu)

191 points by geox 2 years ago | 111 comments

Conspiracy content drives anti-establishment sentiment on TikTok, YouTube(news.umich.edu)

33 points by Improvement 1 year ago | 19 comments

Plastics are poisoning us(newyorker.com)

361 points by fortran77 3 years ago | 416 comments

New Yorker article by Elizabeth Kolbert on how plastics release and attract toxic chemicals and spread everywhere, from human placentas to deep ocean trenches.

Study finds billions of nanoplastics released when microwaving containers(news.unl.edu)

426 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 301 comments

University of Nebraska–Lincoln news article on a study finding microwaving plastic baby food containers releases billions of nanoplastics that harm cultured kidney cells.

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.

Tire dust makes up the majority of ocean microplastics(thedrive.com)

598 points by geox 3 years ago | 487 comments

The Drive news article reporting a study finding that tire dust accounts for the majority of microplastics in the ocean.

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.

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.