Analysing Roman itineraries using GIS tooling(link.springer.com)

36 points by diodorus 1 year ago | 3 comments

CO2 overload in blood suggests toxic atmosphere within 50 years(doi.org)

15 points by veqq 3 months ago | 4 comments

CO2 overload, detected in human blood, suggests toxic atmosphere within 50 years(link.springer.com)

35 points by OutOfHere 3 months ago | 19 comments

Integrated photonic source of Gottesman–Kitaev–Preskill qubits(nature.com)

15 points by gnabgib 1 year ago | 1 comments

How did Rosalind Franklin miss the helix in her iconic DNA image? She didn't(science.org)

281 points by pavel_lishin 20 days ago | 95 comments

Science news article reporting a new analysis arguing Rosalind Franklin recognized the helical structure in her Photograph 51, refuting James Watson's claim.

Ancient DNA from the green Sahara reveals ancestral North African lineage(nature.com)

47 points by gnabgib 1 year ago | 5 comments

The threat is comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing(ergosphere.blog)

814 points by zaikunzhang 6 months ago | 550 comments

Blog essay arguing that the risk of AI in science is researchers, especially PhD students, drifting into not understanding their own work.

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.

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.

Scientists Untangle the Biology of an 'Undruggable' Cancer Gene(nytimes.com)

4 points by gumby 23 days ago | 2 comments

New York Times article on scientists working out the biology of a cancer gene long considered undruggable; the capture shows only a captcha page.

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.

We are entering a period of overlapping crises(hamishcampbell.com)

60 points by speckx 10 days ago | 63 comments

Blog post by Hamish Campbell on the Open Media Network site arguing that climate breakdown, inequality, tech disruption, war and political instability form overlapping crises.