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Much Ado About Adenoids

a month ago

from Damn Interesting in science

Edmund Lawall must have felt cursed. He’d brought his family to New York in the late 1800s to carry on his father’s business as a pharmacist, but...

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How New Zealand invented inflation targeting

a month ago

from The Works in Progress Newsletter in science

The political gamble that made modern central banking

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Matter vs. Force: Why There Are Exactly Two Types of Particles

a month ago

from Quanta Magazine in science

Every elementary particle falls into one of two categories. Collectivist bosons account for the forces that move us while individualist fermions keep...

18

Endangered Eels a Top Target for Traffickers in Europe

a month ago

from Yale E360 in science

Endangered eels are a top target for wildlife traffickers in Europe and generating billions in profits for smugglers globally, according to two new...

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Plastic Bag Policies Have An Effect

a month ago

from NeuroLogica Blog in science

There is a lot of talk concerning the growing plastic waste problem in the world, and that’s because it is a real and serious problem. The world...

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How the Rubin Observatory Will Reinvent Astronomy

a month ago

from IEEE Spectrum in science

Night is falling on Cerro Pachón. Stray clouds reflect the last few rays of golden light as the sun dips below the horizon. I focus my camera across...

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A (quantum) complex legacy: Part trois

a month ago

from Quantum Frontiers in science

When I worked in Cambridge, Massachusetts, a friend reported that MIT’s postdoc association had asked its members how it could improve their lives....

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Brief items - fresh perspectives, some news bits

a month ago

from nanoscale views in science

As usual, I hope to write more about particular physics topics soon, but in the meantime I wanted to share a sampling of news items: First, it's a...

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An Explicit Computation in Derived Algebraic Geoemtry

a month ago

from Chris Grossack's Blog in science

Earlier this week my friend Shane and I took a day and just did a bunch of computations. In the morning we did some differential geometry, where he...

21

In War Zones, a Race to Save Key Seeds Needed to Feed the World

a month ago

from Yale E360 in science

In conflict areas from Ukraine to Palestine, storage facilities holding seeds vital for future plant breeding are being lost. Scientists are rushing...

31

Is Mathematics Mostly Chaos or Mostly Order?

a month ago

from Quanta Magazine in science

Two new notions of infinity challenge a long-standing plan to define the mathematical universe. The post Is Mathematics Mostly Chaos or...

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Renewables Did Not Cause Spanish Blackout, Investigations Find

a month ago

from Yale E360 in science

In the aftermath of a massive blackout that hit Spain and Portugal in April, some pundits were quick to blame wind and solar for the loss of power....

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Explicitly Computing The Action Lie Algebroid for $SL_2(\mathbb{R}) \curvearrowright \mathbb{R}^2$

a month ago

from Chris Grossack's Blog in science

This is going to be a very classic post, where we’ll chat about a computation my friend Shane did earlier today. His research is largely about...

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How AI Models Are Helping to Understand — and Control — the Brain

a month ago

from Quanta Magazine in science

Martin Schrimpf is crafting bespoke AI models that can induce control over high-level brain activity. The post How AI Models Are Helping...

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Lightning Strikes the Arctic: What Will It Mean for the Far North?

a month ago

from Yale E360 in science

A warmer world is expected to bring more thunderstorms, especially at higher latitudes. Scientists are now reporting a dramatic surge in lightning in...

26

How to redraw a city

a month ago

from The Works in Progress Newsletter in science

The planning trick that created Japan's famous urbanism

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Wet Labs Shouldn’t Be Boring (for young scientists) | Out-Of-Pocket

a month ago

from Out-of-Pocket Blog in science

This is the first touchpoint for science, we should make it more enticing

28

How Sewage Recycling Works

a month ago

from Blog - Practical Engineering in science

[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] Wichita Falls, Texas, went through the worst drought in its history in 2011 and...

19

Why JPEGs Still Rule the Web

a month ago

from IEEE Spectrum in science

A version of this post originally appeared on Tedium, Ernie Smith’s newsletter, which hunts for the end of the long tail. For roughly three decades,...

22

The magic of through running

a month ago

from The Works in Progress Newsletter in science

By weaving together existing railway lines, some cities can get the best transit in the world

22

Friday is the Summer Solstice — Caused by Earth’s Ancient Accident

a month ago

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

Friday is the summer solstice, the longest day of the year. We explain why. The post Friday is the Summer Solstice — Caused by Earth’s Ancient...

22

The Ecosystem Dynamics That Can Make or Break an Invasion

a month ago

from Quanta Magazine in science

By speedrunning ecosystems with microbes, researchers revealed intrinsic properties that may make a community susceptible to invasion. The...

17

A Win for Farmers and Tribes Brings New Hope to the Klamath

a month ago

from Yale E360 in science

In the long-contentious Klamath River watershed, an experiment that turned a barley field into a wetland not only improved water quality. It also...

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So you want to build a science/engineering laboratory building

a month ago

from nanoscale views in science

A very quick summary of some non-negative news developments: The NSF awarded 500 more graduate fellowships this week, bringing the total for this...

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Book review: Air-borne by Carl Zimmer

a month ago

from Eukaryote Writes Blog in science

Man, it’s embarrassing to be part of a field of study (biosecurity, in this case) that had such a public moment of unambiguously whiffing it.

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Is Gravity Just Entropy Rising? Long-Shot Idea Gets Another Look.

a month ago

from Quanta Magazine in science

A new argument explores how the growth of disorder could cause massive objects to move toward one another. Physicists are both interested and...

24

A Third of Forests Lost This Century Will Likely Never Be Restored

a month ago

from Yale E360 in science

Of the forest lost so far this century, roughly a third was destroyed to make room for farms, a new analysis finds. Those woodlands, which spanned an...

25

OOP Slack Application is Open! And A New FREE Course!! | Out-Of-Pocket

a month ago

from Out-of-Pocket Blog in science

Plus we’re running an experiment…

22

Does Form Really Shape Function?

a month ago

from Quanta Magazine in science

From brain folds to insect architecture, L. Mahadevan explains how complex biological forms and behaviors emerge through the interplay of physical...

21

Issue 19: American S-Bahn

a month ago

from The Works in Progress Newsletter in science

Plus: How to redraw cities with tangled property rights, the secret history of inflation targeting, and the end of lead pollution in the developing...

19

How Humans Solve Problems

a month ago

from NeuroLogica Blog in science

The human brain is extremely good at problem-solving, at least relatively speaking. Cognitive scientists have been exploring how, exactly, people...

17

Deconstructing Buildings: The Quest for New Life for Old Wood

a month ago

from Yale E360 in science

A growing number of cities have launched initiatives to reuse the wood waste from construction and demolition that now ends up in landfills. The...

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Epic Effort to Ground Physics in Math Opens Up the Secrets of Time

a month ago

from Quanta Magazine in science

By mathematically proving how individual molecules create the complex motion of fluids, three mathematicians have illuminated why time can’t flow in...

16

Lenacapavir: can this drug end AIDS?

a month ago

from The Works in Progress Newsletter in science

Hard Drugs: Episode one is out now.

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How Restored Wetlands Can Protect Europe from Russian Invasion

a month ago

from Yale E360 in science

The flooding of a Ukraine’s Irpin valley thwarted Russia’s assault on Kyiv in 2022. Now, scientists are proposing Europe create a band of restored and...

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Some VoiceAI in Healthcare thoughts | Out-Of-Pocket

a month ago

from Out-of-Pocket Blog in science

Features vs. companies, AI scribes can do more, and pricing questions

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Congratulations, class of 2025! Words from a new graduate

a month ago

from Quantum Frontiers in science

Editor’s note (Nicole Yunger Halpern): Jade LeSchack, the Quantum Steampunk Laboratory’s first undergraduate, received her bachelor’s degree from the...

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A Proof that there's No Constructive Proof of the Intermediate Value Theorem

a month ago

from Chris Grossack's Blog in science

The other day my friend Lucas Salim was asking me some questions about categorical logic and constructive math, and he mentioned he’d never seen a...

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Gentrification as a housing problem

2 months ago

from The Works in Progress Newsletter in science

The root cause is inflexible supply

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New Quantum Algorithm Factors Numbers With One Qubit

2 months ago

from Quanta Magazine in science

The catch: It would require the energy of a few medium-size stars. The post New Quantum Algorithm Factors Numbers With One Qubit first...

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To Protect Amazon from Drug Traffickers, Title Indigenous Lands, Report Says

2 months ago

from Yale E360 in science

Drug traffickers are violently seizing Indigenous lands in the Peruvian Amazon to clear rainforest and grow coca. To combat the drug trade, a new...

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GMOs May Save Florida Citrus

2 months ago

from NeuroLogica Blog in science

Citrus greening (also called Huanglongbing or HLB) is an infectious disease affecting citrus trees in Florida. It is a bacterium, Candidatus...

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A precision measurement science mystery - new physics or incomplete calculations?

2 months ago

from nanoscale views in science

Again, as a distraction from persistently concerning news, here is a science mystery of which I was previously unaware. The role of approximations in...

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First Map Made of a Solid’s Secret Quantum Geometry

2 months ago

from Quanta Magazine in science

Physicists recently mapped the hidden shape that underlies the quantum behaviors of a crystal, using a new method that’s expected to become...

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New Potential mRNA HIV Treatment

2 months ago

from NeuroLogica Blog in science

First, don’t get too excited, this is a laboratory study, which means if all goes well we are about a decade or more from an actual treatment. The...

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Amid Devastation in Gaza, a Deepening Environmental Wound

2 months ago

from Yale E360 in science

The ongoing war in the Gaza Strip has obliterated crops and trees, according to a new assessment of the impact. Read more on E360 →

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How the world's first electric grid was built

2 months ago

from The Works in Progress Newsletter in science

When Britain actually made something

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Birds vs. Wind Turbines: New Research Aims to Prevent Conflict

2 months ago

from Yale E360 in science

Window collisions and cats kill more birds than wind farms do, but ornithologists say turbine impacts must be taken seriously. Scientists are testing...

25

The Birth of the University as Innovation Incubator

2 months ago

from IEEE Spectrum in science

This article is excerpted from Every American an Innovator: How Innovation Became a Way of Life, by Matthew Wisnioski (The MIT Press, 2025). Imagine...

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Why child benefits should be front loaded

2 months ago

from The Works in Progress Newsletter in science

The timing of benefits matters to families, and doesn't change costs for governments