Praearcturus gigas: giant scorpion from Lower Devonian (Lochkovian) of Britain(onlinelibrary.wiley.com)

15 points by bryanrasmussen 1 month ago | 13 comments

Converting an Integer to a Decimal String in Under Two Nanoseconds(onlinelibrary.wiley.com)

97 points by mpweiher 5 months ago | 53 comments

Oxygen-deprived underwater zones may not be “dead zones” but clue to early life(agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com)

121 points by gumby 25 days ago | 18 comments

AGU Advances journal article on Wiley about oxygen-deprived underwater zones as possible analogs for early life; page showed a Cloudflare verification screen.

Moist-Electric Wallpaper for Indoor Energy Harvesting and Humidity Management(advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com)

51 points by croes 26 days ago | 31 comments

Wiley Advanced Energy Materials paper on a moist-electric wallpaper that harvests energy from indoor humidity; the capture shows a Cloudflare verification page.

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.

Communication by means of modulated Johnson noise(pnas.org)

53 points by austinallegro 1 month ago | 28 comments

2025: The Year in LLMs(simonwillison.net)

823 points by simonw 9 months ago | 451 comments

Simon Willison's annual blog post reviewing major LLM trends of 2025, including reasoning models, coding agents, Chinese open weight models, and Gemini.

Restoration of Retinal Regenerative Potential (2025)(nature.com)

107 points by Kaibeezy 8 days ago | 4 comments

Open-access Nature Communications paper showing that blocking intercellular Prox1 transfer restores the regenerative potential of Müller glia in the retina.

Research papers using "kidney disappointment" instead of "kidney failure"(scholar.google.com)

342 points by Alifatisk 2 months ago | 122 comments

Google Scholar search for papers containing the tortured phrase "kidney disappointment"; the page loaded as an unusual-traffic block page.

From Pegasus to Predator – The evolution of commercial spyware on iOS [video](media.ccc.de)

361 points by cookiengineer 1 year ago | 132 comments

Video recording of Matthias Frielingsdorf's 38C3 talk on how commercial spyware like Pegasus and Predator targeting iOS has evolved.

Researchers develop ‘transparent paper’ as alternative to plastics(japannews.yomiuri.co.jp)

420 points by anigbrowl 1 year ago | 268 comments

Japan News article on JAMSTEC-led researchers developing a biodegradable, low-carbon 'transparent paper' as an alternative to plastics.

The characters of plastics (2024)(yarchive.net)

19 points by thelastgallon 23 days ago | 4 comments

A 2024 blog post comparing common plastic types such as polyethylene and nylon to human characters, explaining their chemical properties and uses.