Blogs about Science
25 blogs about Science.
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4 gravitons
The trials and tribulations of four gravitons and a physicist.
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Ways Freelance Journalism Is Different From Academic Writing A while back, I was surprised when I saw the writer of a well-researched webcomic assume that academics are paid for their articles. I ended up writing a post explaining how academic publishing actually works. …
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Abakcus
The best curation site for only math and science.
By Ali Kaya. More infoUpdated
The Art of Understanding Physics with Richard Feynman’s Books All of Richard Feynman’s books, is Feynman himself. This introduction sets the stage for a deep exploration of how his works have reshaped the way we approach and appreciate the art of understanding physics.
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THE ANOMALIST
World News on UFOs, Bigfoot, the Paranormal, and Other Mysteries at the Edge of Science.
By Patrick Huyghe et al. More infoUpdated
The Sky Canada "Preview Report" Ufology Research Some breaking UFO News... First up: Chris Rutkowski links to and summarizes what's within the overlong-awaited first installment of the Canadian government's response to the UFO problem. Rather like the U.S. September 14, 2023, NASA …
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Asymptotia
By Clifford V. Johnson. 🇺🇸 More infoUpdated
93 minutes Thanks to everyone who made all those kind remarks in various places last month after my mother died. I've not responded individually (I did not have the strength) but I did read them all and …
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Azimuth
From math to physics to earth science and biology, computer science … centered around the theme of what scientists, engineers and programmers can do to help save a planet in crisis.
By John Baez. 🇺🇸 More infoUpdated
Obelisks Wow! Biologists seem to have discovered an entirely new kind of life form. They’re called ‘obelisks’, and you probably have some in you. They were discovered in 2024—not by somebody actually seeing one, but by …
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Backdrifting: Milo Trujillo's Cyber-Nest
An intersection of social system design, cybernetics, and hacking.
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What is NP? Why is NP? What is NP? Why is NP? Posted 12/11/2024 This post is about theoretical computer science. I’ve written it without getting too far into academic vocabulary, but this is a disclaimer that if thinking about Turing …
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Bartosz Ciechanowski
Interactive articles about physics, math, and engineering.
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Moon In the vastness of empty space surrounding Earth, the Moon is our closest celestial neighbor. Its face, periodically filled with light and devoured by darkness, has an ever-changing, but dependable presence in our skies. In …
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Bits of DNA
Reviews and commentary on computational biology by Lior Pachter.
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The Journal of Scientific Integrity by Laura Luebbert and Lior Pachter Background (by LL) Four years ago, during the first year of my PhD at Caltech, I participated in a journal club organized by the lab I was rotating in. …
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Condensed concepts
Ruminations on emergent phenomena in condensed phases of matter.
By Ross H. McKenzie. 🇦🇺 More infoUpdated
Quantifying the obscurity of academic writing Occasionally The Economist publishes nice graphs capturing social and economic trends. Here is one.It is part of a nice articleAcademic writing is getting harder to read—the humanities most of allThe downward trend in the humanities …
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Data Colada
Thinking about evidence and vice versa.
By Uri Simonsohn, Leif Nelson, Joe Simmons. More infoUpdated
[122] Arresting Flexibility: A QJE field experiment on police behavior with about 40 outcome variables A forthcoming paper in the Quarterly Journal of Economics (QJE), "A Cognitive View of Policing" (htm), reports results from a field experiment showing that teaching police officers to "consider different ways of interpreting situations they …
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Lab Muffin Beauty Science
The science behind beauty and cosmetic products, explained in an easy-to-understand way by a PhD scientist and science educator.
By Michelle Wong. 🇦🇺 More infoUpdated
Factcheck: Low-Tox Sunscreen Swaps? There’s been a few viral posts about how harmful chemical sunscreens are. The latest one is a post about “Sunscreen Swaps” from @a.glimpse.of.amelia (an Australian “low-tox” consultant) and @jordiepieface (a nutritionist from New Zealand), claiming …
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Mind Hacks – Neuroscience and psychology news and views.
Neuroscience and psychology news and views.
By Tom Stafford, Vaughan Bell. 🇬🇧 More infoUpdated
Chromostereopsis The effect varies for different people. Take a moment and look at this. Some people don’t see anything special: just a blue iris in a red eye. Image: CC-BY Tom Stafford 2022 For me though, …
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New Things Under the Sun
A living literature review on social science research about innovation.
By Matt Clancy. 🇺🇸 More infoUpdated
Prediction Technologies and Innovation Looking Under the Street Light
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Nintil
To estimate, compare, distinguish, discuss, and trace to its principal sources everything.
By José Luis Ricón Fernández de la Puente. 🇺🇸 More infoUpdated
Links (84) First commercial-scale fusion plant plans announced, to be built in the early 2030s Roger Penrose's biography Renaissance Philantrophy (and within, a link to recent research on wearable cortisol trackers!) Bringing Elon to a knife fight …
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Not Even Wrong
By Peter Woit. 🇺🇸 More infoUpdated
Strings 2025 Enjoying a vacation on a Caribbean porch, and just had a couple hours to kill with good internet access. For some reason I spent part of them listening to the summary panel discussions at Strings …
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Quanta Magazine | Science and Math News
Illuminating mathematics, physics, biology and computer science research through public service journalism.
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Heat Destroys All Order. Except for in This One Special Case. Sunlight melts snowflakes. Fire turns logs into soot and smoke. A hot oven will make a magnet lose its pull. Physicists know from countless examples that if you crank the temperature high enough, structures and …
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The Renaissance Mathematicus
An aging freak who fell in love with the history of science and now lives mostly in the 16th century.
By Thony Christie. 🇩🇪 More infoUpdated
It can’t be that bad, after all it’s a Penguin – Part the First What follow is an excruciatingly long, overblown review/demolition of the first half of a supposedly popular book on the history of mathematics. As I began to approach 12,000 words, yes you read that correctly, I …
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Retraction Watch
Tracking retractions as a window into the scientific process.
By Alison Abritis, Ellie Kincaid. 🇺🇸 More infoUpdated
More than three decades after misconduct ruling, researcher’s IQ test paper is retracted A psychology journal has retracted an article on IQ tests nearly 50 years after publication — and more than 35 years after an investigation found the lead author had fabricated data in several other studies. …
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Sabine Hossenfelder: Backreaction
Science News, Physics, Science, Philosophy, Philosophy of Science.
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New Study Finds Alien Life Must Be Similar To Us Everybody probably wonders how aliens might look – if they even exist. Will they look like the classic bug-eyed martian men? Or maybe more like octopuses? Nobody really knows but a group of researchers recently …
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Shtetl-Optimized
The Blog of Scott Aaronson.
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The mini-singularity Err, happy MLK Day! This week represents the convergence of so many plotlines that, if it were the season finale of some streaming show, I’d feel like the writers had too many balls in the …