Scientists Discover New Heavy-Metal Molecule 'Berkelocene'(newscenter.lbl.gov)

108 points by gmays 1 year ago | 43 comments

How long does it take to get last liquid drops from kitchen containers?(brown.edu)

33 points by hhs 7 months ago | 18 comments

Scientists observe Einstein's gravity in the quantum world(ox.ac.uk)

250 points by mudil 1 month ago | 88 comments

Majorana, the search for the most elusive neutrino of all (2012)(newscenter.lbl.gov)

106 points by bilsbie 2 years ago | 17 comments

UChicago scientists see first evidence of 'quantum superchemistry' in the lab(news.uchicago.edu)

87 points by clouddrover 3 years ago | 29 comments

A new experiment casts doubt on the leading theory of the nucleus(quantamagazine.org)

176 points by jnord 3 years ago | 92 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.

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.

Harvard particle physicist Matthew Schwartz drops 36 papers authored with Claude(reddit.com)

29 points by xqcgrek2 24 days ago | 27 comments

A Reddit r/Physics post about Harvard physicist Matthew Schwartz releasing 36 papers co-authored with Claude; the page shows a Reddit network-security block.

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.

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.