Electronic soil boosts crop growth(earth.com)

122 points by geox 2 years ago | 36 comments

Scientists have 20-minute "conversation" with a humpback whale(earth.com)

63 points by aforelight 2 years ago | 37 comments

How many medical studies are faked or flawed?(web.archive.org)

247 points by PaulHoule 3 years ago | 203 comments

Surges of cosmic radiation from space directly linked to earthquakes(earth.com)

374 points by webdoodle 3 years ago | 188 comments

Earth.com news article reporting research that links surges in cosmic radiation reaching Earth to earthquake activity.

Many scientists don’t want to tell the truth about climate change. Here’s why(wbur.org)

38 points by kitkat_new 3 years ago | 17 comments

Methane may not warm the Earth quite as much as previously thought(sciencenews.org)

166 points by starkd 3 years ago | 285 comments

Scientists solve 1840s space weather mystery(arstechnica.com)

116 points by gumby 1 month ago | 48 comments

Ars Technica article on scientists finding that a 19th-century Nature account of a geomagnetic storm delaying a train got the year wrong due to a typo.

Solar surpasses nuclear power globally for first time(pv-magazine.com)

624 points by xbmcuser 27 days ago | 390 comments

pv magazine article reporting that global solar generation surpassed nuclear for the first time in 2025, according to the World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2026.

Solarpunk is happening in Africa(climatedrift.substack.com)

1103 points by JoiDegn 1 year ago | 536 comments

A Climate Drift Substack essay arguing that Africa is building a solarpunk future by leapfrogging legacy energy infrastructure with distributed solar.

AI tools are spotting errors in research papers(nature.com)

555 points by kgwgk 1 year ago | 200 comments

Nature news article on a growing movement using AI and large language models to detect errors in research papers, sparked by a flawed black plastic utensils study.

Anthropic conjures threat that doesn't exist yet to stoke fears of AI apocalypse(theregister.com)

45 points by beardyw 1 month ago | 32 comments

The Register article criticizing Anthropic for promoting a hypothetical AI threat that the author says stokes fears of an AI apocalypse.

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.