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17 hours ago

from nanoscale views in science

It's been a busy time that has cut into my blogging, but I wanted to point out some links from the past couple of weeks. Physics Today has a cover...

A 1-Day Virtual Symposium on Future of Astronomy

12 hours ago

from Andrew Fraknoi – Astronomy Lectures – Astronomy Education Resources in science

For those of you with a deeper interest in astronomy and how we learn about the universe, this may be of interest. There is a good discount if you...

As Fire Season Ramps Up, Thousands of U.S. Firefighting Positions Are Vacant

7 hours ago

from Yale E360 in science

Every spring, Forest Service fire leaders meet to plan for the upcoming fire season. This year, some employees were shocked by the blunt remarks made...

Some changes in Out-of-Pocket Land | Out-Of-Pocket

5 hours ago

from Out-of-Pocket Blog in science

‘It’s a Mess’: A Brain-Bending Trip to Quantum Theory’s 100th Birthday Party

3 hours ago

from Quanta Magazine in science

Hundreds of physicists (and a few journalists) journeyed to Helgoland, the birthplace of quantum mechanics, and grappled with what they have and...

More Intense El Niños May Be Driving Loss of Tropical Insects

2 days ago

from Yale E360 in science

Insects and spiders are declining in tropical forests around the world. Mysteriously, losses are underway even in areas untouched by logging, mining,...

New Method Is the Fastest Way To Find the Best Routes

2 days ago

from Quanta Magazine in science

A canonical problem in computer science is to find the shortest route to every point in a network. A new approach beats the classic algorithm taught...

Israeli Forces Allegedly Bulldoze Palestinian Seed Bank

3 days ago

from Yale E360 in science

Israeli forces have attacked a seed bank in the West Bank city of Hebron, destroying equipment used to reproduce heirloom seeds, according to the...

Why Are There No Short Arch Dams?

3 days ago

from Blog - Practical Engineering in science

[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] Flaming Gorge Dam rises from the Green River in northern Utah like a concrete...

Some stories from healthcare founders | Out-Of-Pocket

3 days ago

from Out-of-Pocket Blog in science

Titles matter, you can change regulation, how M&A happens

It’s Just A Correlation

3 days ago

from NeuroLogica Blog in science

Did you know that the number of Google searches for cat memes correlates tightly (P-value < 0.01) with England’s performance in cricket World Cups?...

Shrinking Cod: How Humans Are Impacting the Evolution of Species

4 days ago

from Yale E360 in science

Biologists once thought that humans did little to affect the course of evolution in the short term. But a recent study of cod in the Baltic Sea...

Earth’s Core Appears To Be Leaking Up and Out of Earth’s Surface

4 days ago

from Quanta Magazine in science

Strong new evidence suggests that primordial material from the planet’s center is somehow making its way out. Continent-size entities anchored to the...

World Cannot Recycle Its Way Out of Plastics Crisis, Report Warns

4 days ago

from Yale E360 in science

The 8 billion tons of plastic waste that have amassed on Earth pose a grave and growing danger to human health, according to a new report published in...

A Cold War Kit for Surviving a Nuclear Attack

a week ago

from IEEE Spectrum in science

On 29 August 1949, the Soviet Union successfully tested its first nuclear weapon. Over the next year and a half, U.S. President Harry S. Truman...

At 17, Hannah Cairo Solved a Major Math Mystery

a week ago

from Quanta Magazine in science

After finding the homeschooling life confining, the teen petitioned her way into a graduate class at Berkeley, where she ended up disproving a...

Bizarre New Creatures Discovered 30,000 Feet Under the Sea

a week ago

from Yale E360 in science

The Titanic lies about 12,500 feet under the ocean. The pressure down there is so immense that even submersibles supposedly built for those conditions...

Least Village Has Its Blacksmith

a week ago

from The Works in Progress Newsletter in science

The next section of Chapter 3 of Stewart Brand’s Maintenance on Books in Progress

Depleted Uranium Batteries

a week ago

from NeuroLogica Blog in science

The Japan Atomic Energy Agency reported earlier this year that is has developed and tested a battery with depleted uranium as the active material of...

A 515-Mile Lightning Flash Is Longest on Record

a week ago

from Yale E360 in science

A reappraisal of satellite data from 2017 revealed that a thunderstorm over the Great Plains produced a 515-mile lightning flash, the longest ever...

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a week ago

from The Works in Progress Newsletter in science

Join us and document the scientific, technological and economic progress happening around the world.

What Can a Cell Remember?

a week ago

from Quanta Magazine in science

A small but enthusiastic group of neuroscientists is exhuming overlooked experiments and performing new ones to explore whether cells record past...

A Promised U.S. Drilling Boom Fails to Materialize

a week ago

from Yale E360 in science

With clean energy more cost-competitive than it once was, the White House’s oil-first strategy is faltering in a changing energy landscape. Read more...

As Government Cuts Weather Forecasting, Private Weather is Poised to Take the Lead

a week ago

from Drew Ex Machina in science

By Ilya Schiller For decades, Americans have relied on federal agencies like NOAA and the National Weather Service (NWS) to provide essential weather...

How Henry VIII accidentally started the Industrial Revolution, with Anton Howes

a week ago

from The Works in Progress Newsletter in science

Episode three of the Works in Progress Podcast is about England's WORST king.

What To Do About AI Slop

a week ago

from NeuroLogica Blog in science

I wasn’t planning on doing a follow up to my recent post on AI so quickly, but a published commentary on the issue makes a good point of discussion. I...

Sprawling Study Links Air Pollution to Dementia

a week ago

from Yale E360 in science

A wide-ranging analysis, drawing from data on nearly 30 million people, finds a link between air pollution and dementia. Read more on E360 →

Advice and Lessons for Healthcare Founders | Out-Of-Pocket

a week ago

from Out-of-Pocket Blog in science

Some stuff people don’t tell you

Why the Key to a Mathematical Life is Collaboration

a week ago

from Quanta Magazine in science

Fan Chung, who has an Erdős number of 1, discusses the importance of connection — both human and mathematical. The post Why the Key to a...

‘Sponge City’: How Copenhagen Is Adapting to a Wetter Future

a week ago

from Yale E360 in science

Climate change is bringing ever more precipitation and rising seas to low-lying Denmark. In response to troubling predictions, Copenhagen is enacting...

Little ray of sunshine

a week ago

from Quantum Frontiers in science

A common saying goes, you should never meet your heroes, because they’ll disappoint you. But you shouldn’t trust every common saying; some heroes...

A Third of Slum Dwellers at Risk of 'Disastrous' Floods

2 weeks ago

from Yale E360 in science

Close to 900 million people across the Global South live in densely packed urban slums, which often sit in floodplains. A new study finds that one in...

Quantum Scientists Have Built a New Math of Cryptography

2 weeks ago

from Quanta Magazine in science

In theory, quantum physics can bypass the hard mathematical problems at the root of modern encryption. A new proof shows how. The post...

On Controlling Fire, New Lessons from a Deep Indigenous Past

2 weeks ago

from Yale E360 in science

For centuries, the Native people of North America used controlled burns to manage the continent's forests. In an e360 interview, ecologist Loris...

Research experience for teachers - why NSF education funds matter

2 weeks ago

from nanoscale views in science

The beginning of a RET poster session Research Experience for Teachers (RET) programs are an example of the kind of programs that the National...

Tram trains

2 weeks ago

from The Works in Progress Newsletter in science

How to build cheap transit in smaller towns

The Cells That Breathe Two Ways

2 weeks ago

from Quanta Magazine in science

In a hot spring at Yellowstone National Park, a microbe does something that life shouldn’t be able to do: It breathes oxygen and sulfur at the same...

Lightning Kills 320 Million Trees Yearly. With Warming, the Toll Could Rise

2 weeks ago

from Yale E360 in science

A new study finds that lightning kills some 320 million trees around the world each year, more than was previously thought. And the figure could rise...

Avi Loeb and the Alien Technology Hypothesis

2 weeks ago

from NeuroLogica Blog in science

Avi Loeb is at it again. He is the Harvard astrophysicist who first gained notoriety when he hypothesized that Oumuamua, the first detected...

China Breaks Ground on Colossal Dam Project in Asia's Grand Canyon

2 weeks ago

from Yale E360 in science

China has begun construction on a massive dam project in the Yarlung Tsangpo Grand Canyon in Tibet, the longest and deepest canyon in the world....

Omiword, a Word Game

2 weeks ago

from Damn Interesting in science

In certain dialects of Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese, the word for ‘four’ sounds very similar to the word for ‘death’1. Consequently, the...

What goes into SOC 2 and HITRUST? (with Vanta) | Out-Of-Pocket

2 weeks ago

from Out-of-Pocket Blog in science

AI Comes Up with Bizarre Physics Experiments. But They Work.

2 weeks ago

from Quanta Magazine in science

Artificial intelligence software is designing novel experimental protocols that improve upon the work of human physicists, although the humans are...

The Epstein Files Hubbub

2 weeks ago

from NeuroLogica Blog in science

I have been away on vacation for the last week and a half, so I thought I would ease back into blogging with a light non-controversial topic – the...

Paying the People: Liberia’s Novel Plan to Save Its Forests

2 weeks ago

from Yale E360 in science

Plagued by illegal logging and corruption, Liberia has been losing its forests at an alarming rate. But its new strategy to make direct payments to...

Free Things Are Complicated (Especially the Sphere Spectrum!)

2 weeks ago

from Chris Grossack's Blog in science

I’ve spent the last week at CT2025, which has just come to a close. It was great getting to see so many old friends and meet so many new ones, and...

The latest on US science funding

2 weeks ago

from nanoscale views in science

The US House and Senate appropriations subcommittees have now completed their markups on the bills relevant to the FY26 appropriations for NSF, NASA,...

Paying the People: Liberia’s Novel Plan to Save Its Forests

3 weeks ago

from Yale E360 in science

Plagued by illegal logging and corruption, Liberia has been losing its forests at an alarming rate. But its new strategy to make direct payments to...

How Distillation Makes AI Models Smaller and Cheaper

3 weeks ago

from Quanta Magazine in science

Fundamental technique lets researchers use a big, expensive “teacher” model to train a “student” model for less. The post How Distillation...

Research Details Devastating Toll of Colonization on Pacific Northwest Wildlife

3 weeks ago

from Yale E360 in science

When Europeans arrived to the Pacific Northwest, they spread smallpox that devastated the Indigenous people, plundered stocks of salmon and herring,...