Bonanza of new dates rewrites the history of the Inca(science.org)

24 points by pseudolus 25 days ago | 5 comments

Science news feature by Lizzie Wade on how new radiocarbon dates show the Inca Empire lasted longer than thought and faced more resistance.

The “invented persona” behind the GISAID viral sequence database(science.org)

98 points by Metacelsus 3 years ago | 40 comments

A lost Amazon world just reappeared in Bolivia(frontiersin.org)

93 points by ashishgupta2209 11 months ago | 19 comments

The AI industry turns against its favorite philosophy(semafor.com)

38 points by spopejoy 3 years ago | 37 comments

The “Wow!” signal was likely from extraterrestrial source, and more powerful(iflscience.com)

192 points by toss1 1 year ago | 198 comments

Star neuroscientist may have manipulated data to support a major stroke trial(science.org)

270 points by EndXA 2 years ago | 304 comments

Nobel Prize in Physics 2026: Francis Halzen(nobelprize.org)

551 points by solarist 1 month ago | 194 comments

Official Nobel Prize page for the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics, awarded to Francis Halzen.

PeerTube is a free, decentralized and federated video platform(github.com)

592 points by doener 4 months ago | 274 comments

GitHub repository for PeerTube, an AGPL-licensed ActivityPub-federated video streaming platform that uses P2P delivery in the browser.

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

21 points by pseudolus 1 month 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.

Purely Functional Data Structures (1996) [pdf](cs.cmu.edu)

327 points by debanjan16 3 years ago | 94 comments

Chris Okasaki's 1996 CMU PhD thesis on designing and analyzing purely functional data structures, hosted as a PDF.

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.

F3: Open-source data file format for the future [pdf](db.cs.cmu.edu)

366 points by eatonphil 1 year ago | 117 comments

SIGMOD 2025 paper presenting F3, a next-generation open-source columnar data file format that embeds WebAssembly decoders for extensibility and interoperability.