New wild cat species discovered – with only one known living member(bbc.com)

38 points by drgo 1 month ago | 7 comments

Sama-Bajau “sea nomads” people gene mutations allow them to free-dive 13 minutes(nationalgeographic.com)

54 points by guytv 3 years ago | 21 comments

The most otherworldly, mysterious forms of lightning on Earth(nationalgeographic.com)

109 points by Anon84 1 year ago | 41 comments

Deepest Dive Under Antarctica Reveals a Vibrant World(nationalgeographic.com)

36 points by chapulin 2 years ago | 8 comments

In 1969, the U.S. turned off Niagara Falls(nationalgeographic.com)

36 points by Brajeshwar 2 years ago | 36 comments

Beavers finish seven-year dam project in two days saving – $1M(nationalgeographic.com)

54 points by vixen99 1 year ago | 22 comments

PeerTube is a free, decentralized and federated video platform(github.com)

592 points by doener 3 months ago | 274 comments

GitHub repository for PeerTube, an AGPL-licensed ActivityPub-federated video streaming platform that uses P2P delivery in the browser.

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.

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.

A new PNG spec(programmax.net)

610 points by bluedel 1 year ago | 553 comments

A blog post announcing the release of a new PNG specification after two decades of stalled progress and explaining why it matters.

Declaring a bird extinct: The median wait is 36 years after the last sighting(birdshistory.com)

20 points by Heidi_70 22 days ago | 7 comments

A Birds History article on how long it takes to declare a bird species extinct, noting a median wait of 36 years after the last confirmed sighting.

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.