Purple exists only in our brains(snexplores.org)

27 points by geox 1 year ago | 24 comments

A genetic study has revised the narrative about how wine grapes spread(scientificamerican.com)

63 points by Brajeshwar 3 years ago | 21 comments

Cancer DNA is detectable in blood years before diagnosis(sciencenews.org)

258 points by bookofjoe 1 year ago | 125 comments

Star botanist likely made up data about nutritional supplements, new probe finds(science.org)

203 points by jyunwai 2 years ago | 72 comments

Pig lung transplanted into a human(sciencealert.com)

112 points by signa11 1 year ago | 85 comments

Horses may have been domesticated twice(sciencenews.org)

90 points by diodorus 2 years ago | 104 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.

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.

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.

Japan's push to make all research open access(nature.com)

612 points by sohkamyung 2 years ago | 92 comments

Nature news article on Japan allocating 10 billion yen to institutional repositories to make the nation's publicly funded research free to read.

Google to invest up to $2B in Anthropic(reuters.com)

356 points by fofoz 3 years ago | 338 comments

Reuters news article reporting that Google agreed to invest up to $2 billion in OpenAI rival Anthropic, published October 27, 2023.

Cold-blooded software(dubroy.com)

499 points by arbesman 2 years ago | 198 comments

Patrick Dubroy's blog essay using cold-blooded animals as a metaphor for software that can sit untouched for long periods and still work when revived.