Weeping whales: Stillborn humpback whale grieving documented(phys.org)

224 points by wglb 1 month ago | 164 comments

Chernobyl particles reveal unexpectedly stable nuclear fuel after 40 years(phys.org)

158 points by geox 19 days ago | 67 comments

Phys.org news article on research finding Chernobyl fuel particles remain unexpectedly stable after 40 years; the capture shows a Cloudflare verification page.

The Beatles have permeated research papers across academic disciplines(phys.org)

21 points by pseudolus 29 days ago | 18 comments

Phys.org news article about how references to The Beatles appear in research papers across academic disciplines; the capture shows only a Cloudflare verification page.

Scientists build most accurate atomic clock(phys.org)

50 points by wglb 1 month ago | 23 comments

Phys.org news article about scientists building the world's most accurate atomic clock; the capture shows a Cloudflare verification challenge instead.

A wandering black hole caught feeding on the run(phys.org)

56 points by wglb 1 month ago | 38 comments

Rapid warming may tip AMOC at 2°C, slower warming may avert collapse(phys.org)

54 points by maxboone 2 months ago | 39 comments

A new PNG spec(programmax.net)

610 points by bluedel 1 year ago | 553 comments

A blog post announcing the release of a new PNG specification after two decades of stalled progress and explaining why it matters.

AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42(lantian.pub)

1348 points by xiaoyu2006 4 months ago | 488 comments

Blog post recounting how an AI agent trying to join the DN42 hobbyist network to scan it ran up a $6531.30 AWS bill for its operator.

LLMs use a surprisingly simple mechanism to retrieve some stored knowledge(news.mit.edu)

336 points by CharlesW 2 years ago | 121 comments

MIT News article on research showing LLMs often retrieve stored facts via simple linear functions, and a technique to probe what a model knows about subjects.

There is no epidemic of loneliness, but there is an epidemic of scurvy(experimental-history.com)

59 points by luu 1 month ago | 31 comments

An Experimental History Substack essay by Adam Mastroianni arguing there is no loneliness epidemic but there is an epidemic of scurvy.

The Future Is Niri(ersei.net)

388 points by mattjhall 1 year ago | 202 comments

A personal blog post giving the author's opinion on the Niri scrollable tiling Wayland compositor after years of using Sway and i3.

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.