The Unwilding of Patagonia's Pollinators(biographic.com)

4 points by ohjeez 8 days ago | 0 comments

bioGraphic feature on how imported European buff-tailed bumblebees are displacing Patagonia's endangered native giant bumblebee in Chile and Argentina.

Unmasking the Sea Star Killer(biographic.com)

72 points by sohkamyung 1 year ago | 17 comments

Anchovy spawning causes temperature swings and turbulence in ocean layers(hakaimagazine.com)

104 points by sohkamyung 2 years ago | 50 comments

Cuttlefish and Their Technicolor Dreamcoats(hakaimagazine.com)

28 points by Hooke 3 years ago | 5 comments

Could seaweed be the 'fastest and least expensive' tool to fight climate change?(nationalgeographic.com)

103 points by Brajeshwar 3 years ago | 159 comments

A whale that's known only by the sound of its voice(hakaimagazine.com)

113 points by grzm 2 years ago | 20 comments

Things to know when you get cancer(jjmaxwell4.com)

1850 points by jjmaxwell4 1 month ago | 442 comments

A personal blog post by someone diagnosed with oral squamous cell carcinoma in 2026, listing practical lessons learned about navigating cancer care.

Cold-blooded software(dubroy.com)

499 points by arbesman 2 years ago | 198 comments

Patrick Dubroy's blog essay using cold-blooded animals as a metaphor for software that can sit untouched for long periods and still work when revived.

Closing the Sea: Lessons from Ancient Mediterranean Blockades(maritime-executive.com)

19 points by gumby 18 days ago | 0 comments

A Maritime Executive editorial from CIMSEC examining four ancient Mediterranean naval blockades and their lessons for modern blockades like Iran and Taiwan.

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

4 points by gumby 1 month 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.

Study: Exercise increases cancer survival rates(nejm.org)

71 points by RickJWagner 1 month ago | 39 comments

A New England Journal of Medicine study page on exercise and cancer survival, blocked here by a Cloudflare security verification screen.

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.