Blogs about Science
20 blogs about Science.
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Asymptotia
By Clifford V. Johnson. 🇺🇸Updated
The Life Scientific Interview After doing a night bottle feed of our youngest in the wee hours of the morning some nights earlier this week, in order to help me get back to sleep I decided to turn on …
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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. 🇺🇸Updated
Chemistry and Invariant Theory In an alternative history of the world, perhaps quantum mechanics could have been discovered by chemists following up on the theories of two mathematicians from the late 1800s: Sylvester, and Gordan. Both are famous for …
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Bartosz Ciechanowski
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Biology News
“Read the latest science news from Phys.org on biology, evolution, microbiology, biotechnology.” 🇬🇧Updated
Surprise finding shows that neutrophils can be key antitumor weapons White blood cells called neutrophils have an unappreciated role in eradicating solid tumors, according to a surprise discovery from a team led by Weill Cornell Medicine scientists.
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Chemistry News
“The latest news stories on chemistry, biochemistry, polymers, materials science from Phys.org.” 🇬🇧Updated
Using operando Raman spectroscopy to investigate converting carbon dioxide to ethanol on Ag nanowires In a study, published in the journal Science China Chemistry and led by Prof. Pingping Fang (School of Chemistry, Zhejiang University) and Prof. Jianfeng Li (College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University), experiments were …
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Lifeboat Foundation News Blog
“Has tens of thousands of scientific blog posts!” 🇺🇸Updated
Allies or enemies of cancer: The dual fate of neutrophils Why do cancer immunotherapies work so extraordinarily well in a minority of patients, but fail in so many others? By analyzing the role of neutrophils, immune cells whose presence usually signals treatment failure, scientists from …
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Mind Hacks – Neuroscience and psychology news and views.
“Neuroscience and psychology news and views.” By Tom Stafford, Vaughan Bell. 🇬🇧Updated
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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Nanotechnology News
“Nanotechnology. The latest news on nanoscience, nanoelectronics, science and technology. Updated Daily.” 🇬🇧Updated
Researcher studies control of the radiative heat transfer in a pair of rotating nanostructures Hot bodies emit heat in the form of electromagnetic radiation. Lightbulbs and night vision cameras are examples of technologies based on this physical phenomenon. Our daily experience tells us that heat is always directed from …
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New Things Under the Sun
“A living literature review on social science research about innovation.” By Matt Clancy. 🇺🇸 -
Nintil
“To estimate, compare, distinguish, discuss, and trace to its principal sources everything.” By José Luis Ricón Fernández de la Puente. 🇺🇸Updated
Links (67) Links Nikunj Koathari's H1B-to-US-residency guide The present, past, and future of pharmaceutical blockbusters Experimental gene therapy trials, happening in the charter city Prospera Estimating ChatGPT's inference costs Ben Reinhardt launches Speculative Technologies (previously PARPA) A …
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Not Even Wrong
By Peter Woit. 🇺🇸Updated
A Muon Collider? The US particle physics community has been going through a multi-year process designed to lead up this fall to a 10 year strategic plan to be presented to the DOE and the NSF. In particular, …
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Physics News
“The latest news in physics, materials science, quantum physics, optics and photonics, superconductivity science and technology. Updated Daily.” 🇬🇧Updated
Exploiting dark autoionizing states for enhancing extreme ultraviolet lasers An international research team led by Professors Tsuneyuki Ozaki and François Légaré at the Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS), has developed a unique method to enhance the power of a laser source emitting …
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Quanta Magazine | Science and Math News
“Illuminating mathematics, physics, biology and computer science research through public service journalism.” 🇺🇸Updated
How a DNA ‘Parasite’ May Have Fragmented Our Genes All animals, plants, fungi and protists — which collectively make up the domain of life called eukaryotes — have genomes with a peculiar feature that has puzzled researchers for almost half a century: Their genes …
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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. 🇩🇪Updated
Renaissance garbage – I In case you hadn’t noticed there is a four-weekly cycle of blog posts here at the Renaissance Mathematicus. Week one is a new series post, week two a fairly random #histSTM post, week three the …
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Retraction Watch
“Tracking retractions as a window into the scientific process.” By Alison Abritis, Ellie Kincaid. 🇺🇸Updated
One small error for a physicist, one giant blunder for planetary science For a decade, scientists have been scratching their heads when trying to put a date on primeval events like the crystallization of the magma ocean on the moon or the early formation of Earth’s continental …
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Shtetl-Optimized
“The Blog of Scott Aaronson.” 🇺🇸Updated
If AI scaling is to be shut down, let it be for a coherent reason There’s now an open letter arguing that the world should impose a six-month moratorium on the further scaling of AI models such as GPT, by government fiat if necessary, to give AI safety and interpretability …
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Singularity Hub
By Jason Dorrier, Vanessa Bates Ramirez, Shelly Fan. 🇺🇸Updated
Maryland Wants to Be the First US State to Switch to a 4-Day Work Week Last summer, the biggest four-day work week trial in the world kicked off in the UK. 3,300 people started working 80 percent of their regular hours for 100 percent of their pay. Feedback from employees …
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SLIME MOLD TIME MOLD
“Mad Science Blogging.” 🇺🇸Updated
Links for March 2023 The Sixth Stage of Grief Is Retro-computing (h/t Visakan) ExFatLoss on measurement: a “Regular, Boring Scale” is the best way to measure body weight for weight loss. “All other methods are either less precise, more …
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Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
By Andrew Gelman. 🇺🇸Updated
Beverly Cleary is winner in third iteration of Greatest Seminar Speaker competition Our third seminar speaker competition has come to an end, with the final round pitting Beverly “Ramona” Cleary against Laura “Ingalls” Wilder. Before going on, I’d like to say that Alison Bechdel is the “Veronica …
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Watered Down Physics
“By Alan Reifman, Non-Physicist.”Updated
Vox Explains Henrietta Leavitt's 1908 Discovery of How to Measure Distances to Stars and Galaxies Vox provides a very clear explanation of Henrietta Leavitt's 1908 discovery that allows us to estimate the distance to stars and galaxies. The book Einstein's Greatest Mistake (which I previously reviewed here) also discusses Leavitt's …
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