What is the best shape of a city? Modelling effect of urban form on distance(journals.sagepub.com)

36 points by rustoo 1 month ago | 22 comments

A SAGE journal article modelling how urban form and city shape affect travel distances; the page shown is a Cloudflare security verification screen.

Make a 6-Tesla-class high-temperature superconducting dipole magnet at 4.2 K(journals.aps.org)

43 points by supermagnet 2 months ago | 11 comments

Associative learning turns DEET from aversive to appetitive in Aedes aegypti(journals.biologists.com)

62 points by croes 5 months ago | 30 comments

Car Seats as Contraception(journals.uchicago.edu)

58 points by CGMthrowaway 7 months ago | 78 comments

Caffeine and Cardiovascular Disease: Aha Scientific Statement(ahajournals.org)

11 points by brandonb 3 months ago | 0 comments

Semaglutide linked to lower predicted dementia risk(alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com)

469 points by randycupertino 2 months ago | 370 comments

A Wiley Alzheimer's & Dementia journal article on semaglutide's association with lower predicted dementia risk; the capture shows a Cloudflare verification page.

ADHD as a circadian rhythm disorder: evidence and implications for chronotherapy (2025)(frontiersin.org)

351 points by bookofjoe 18 days ago | 227 comments

A Frontiers in Psychiatry perspective article arguing ADHD can be viewed as a circadian rhythm disorder and discussing implications for chronotherapy.

Loyal workers are selectively and ironically targeted for exploitation(sciencedirect.com)

341 points by ck45 3 years ago | 219 comments

Abstract page for a Journal of Experimental Social Psychology paper finding that loyal workers are selectively targeted for exploitation by managers.

How close can pure functional programming get to C?(rtfeldman.com)

268 points by stmonty 2 days ago | 94 comments

Richard Feldman's blog post benchmarking roc-deflate, a pure Roc DEFLATE library, against C's libdeflate, finding it under 10% slower, and describing Roc-specific optimizations.

Some critical issues with the SWE-bench dataset(arxiv.org)

331 points by joshwa 1 year ago | 113 comments

arXiv paper introducing SWE-Bench+, an empirical analysis revealing data quality issues in the SWE-bench coding benchmark for LLMs, such as solution leakage and weak tests.

Electrification Special Report 2026 [pdf](iea.blob.core.windows.net)

9 points by gmays 25 days ago | 0 comments

A PDF of the International Energy Agency's 2026 special report on electrification of the global energy system.

QwQ-32B: Embracing the Power of Reinforcement Learning(qwenlm.github.io)

445 points by nwjsmith 1 year ago | 147 comments

Qwen Team blog post announcing QwQ-32B, a 32B-parameter reasoning model trained with scaled reinforcement learning.