JAXA is about to perform a Phobos sample return mission(science.org)

97 points by Muhammad523 8 days ago | 19 comments

Science news feature on Japan's MMX mission, which aims to return samples from Mars's moon Phobos to learn how it formed and possibly retrieve pieces of Mars.

Bonanza of new dates rewrites the history of the Inca(science.org)

24 points by pseudolus 7 days ago | 5 comments

Science news feature by Lizzie Wade on how new radiocarbon dates show the Inca Empire lasted longer than thought and faced more resistance.

Nazi Germany had no hope of making an atomic bomb, uranium cubes reveal(science.org)

97 points by xqcgrek2 24 days ago | 47 comments

Science magazine news article reporting that analysis of uranium cubes shows Nazi Germany's experimental reactor lacked enough uranium and heavy water to succeed.

A lost Schrödinger manuscript reveals a twist in quantum physics(sciencealert.com)

62 points by ibobev 4 days ago | 38 comments

ScienceAlert article on a rediscovered unpublished Schrödinger manuscript presenting a hidden-variable model rebutting 1940s claims that determinism was impossible.

Titanic digital scan reveals new details of ship's final hours(bbc.com)

39 points by jnord 1 year ago | 22 comments

Rosalind Franklin's Methods of Discovery(daily.jstor.org)

64 points by bookofjoe 2 years ago | 5 comments

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.

How much of Thermo Fisher's antibody data has been manipulated?(reeserichardson.blog)

411 points by mhrmsn 4 months ago | 88 comments

Blog post by Reese Richardson investigating apparent image manipulation in Thermo Fisher's antibody product validation data.

I miss thinking hard(jernesto.com)

1166 points by jernestomg 8 months ago | 633 comments

A personal blog post venting that the author rarely spends days thinking hard about difficult problems anymore, tagged as an opinion piece on AI.

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.

MIT Study Finds AI Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to Cognitive Decline(publichealthpolicyjournal.com)

438 points by cainxinth 1 year ago | 432 comments

Article reporting on an MIT study claiming that using AI tools like ChatGPT alters brain activity and leads to cognitive decline.

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.