Oceans are hugely complex: modelling marine microbes is key to climate forecasts(nature.com)

30 points by rntn 3 years ago | 4 comments

CRISPR-like tools that finally can edit mitochondria DNA(nature.com)

129 points by ck2 1 year ago | 31 comments

Carbon dioxide capture from open air using covalent organic frameworks(nature.com)

10 points by the-chitmonger 1 year ago | 27 comments

What Rosalind Franklin contributed to the discovery of DNA’s structure(nature.com)

140 points by Feuilles_Mortes 3 years ago | 111 comments

Scientist treated her own cancer with viruses she grew in the lab(nature.com)

570 points by dataminer 1 year ago | 198 comments

Nature news article about virologist Beata Halassy, who treated her own breast cancer with lab-grown oncolytic viruses, and researchers' warnings against copying her.

A 5.3M-year-old deep-sea whale necropolis in the Diamantina Zone(nature.com)

137 points by bryanrasmussen 19 days ago | 12 comments

Open-access Nature paper describing a 5.3-million-year-old deep-sea whale fossil necropolis discovered in the Diamantina Zone of the Indian Ocean.

New plastic pollution discovered: 'Plasticorals' coral rubble fused with plastic(oist.jp)

103 points by giuliomagnifico 5 days ago | 62 comments

OIST research news release describing 'plasticorals', coral rubble fused with melted plastic found on Okinawa beaches, published in Marine Pollution Bulletin.

Long presumed dead, a thriving coral reef is discovered in West Africa(e360.yale.edu)

383 points by speckx 3 months ago | 87 comments

Yale Environment 360 digest article, republished from Inside Climate News, on a thriving coral reef discovered off Benin in West Africa that was long presumed dead.

Replanting logged forests with diverse seedlings accelerates restoration(technologynetworks.com)

356 points by myshpa 3 years ago | 135 comments

Technology Networks news article on a study finding that replanting logged forests with diverse seedling mixtures significantly accelerates recovery.

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.

So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe(cole-k.com)

546 points by montroser 3 months ago | 550 comments

Blog post complaining that Reddit now requires users to log in to access the plain-HTML old Reddit interface, citing safety.

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.