Blogs about Science
24 blogs about Science.
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4 gravitons
The trials and tribulations of four gravitons and a physicist.
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At Quanta This Week, With a Piece on Vacuum Decay I have a short piece at Quanta Magazine this week, about a physics-y end of the world as we know it called vacuum decay. For science-minded folks who want to learn a bit more: I …
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Abakcus
The best curation site for only math and science.
By Ali Kaya. More infoUpdated
Mastering AP Calculus AB: Top 10 Self-Study Textbooks and Math Books In this guide, I have compiled a list of ten highly recommended AP Calculus AB textbooks and math books that are perfect for self-study.
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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
Unexplained Intrusions at Nuclear Sites Met With Silence From Department of Energy as Decades of Secrecy Face Intense Scrutiny L... Christopher Sharp has a concerning follow-up to the recent House hearing exchange between Representative Anna Paulina Luna and Department of Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm. It's fueled by revelations by The UAP Register's Dustin Slaughter, and …
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Asymptotia
By Clifford V. Johnson. 🇺🇸 More infoUpdated
Tumble Science Podcast Episode For some weekend listening, there’s a fun and informative podcast for youngsters called Tumble Science Podcast. I learned of it recently because they asked to interview me for an episode, and it is now available! …
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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
Agent-Based Models (Part 13) Our 6-week Edinburgh meeting for creating category-based software for agent-based models is done, yet my collaborators are still busy improving and expanding this software. I want to say more about how it works. I have …
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Backdrifting: Milo Trujillo's Cyber-Nest
An intersection of social system design, cybernetics, and hacking.
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Open Academic Publication Open Academic Publication Posted 10/28/2023 I’m currently at a workshop on open practices across disciplines, and one topic of discussion is how to change the academic publishing process to be more accessible to both authors …
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Bartosz Ciechanowski
Interactive articles about physics, math, and engineering.
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Airfoil The dream of soaring in the sky like a bird has captivated the human mind for ages. Although many failed, some eventually succeeded in achieving that goal. These days we take air transportation for granted, …
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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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Data Colada
Thinking about evidence and vice versa.
By Uri Simonsohn, Leif Nelson, Joe Simmons. More infoUpdated
[118] Harvard’s Gino Report Reveals How A Dataset Was Altered As you may know, Harvard professor Francesca Gino is suing us for defamation after (1) we alerted Harvard to evidence of fraud in four studies that she co-authored, (2) Harvard investigated and placed her on …
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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
La Roche-Posay UVMune 400: Science and Review The La Roche-Posay UVMune 400 range has been super hyped up because it contains a brand new sunscreen ingredient: Methoxypropylamino Cyclohexenylidene Ethoxyethylcyanoacetate (MCE), or Mexoryl 400. It’s currently exclusive to L’Oreal, and was developed in …
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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
Incentives to Invent at Universities More complicated than it seems at first
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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 (80) AI companies need to make a lot of money for the current market state (NVIDIA going to the moon) to make sense. Right now it's far from that. Interview with the current co-CEO of Netflix …
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Not Even Wrong
By Peter Woit. 🇺🇸 More infoUpdated
The Harvard Swampland Initiative The past few years I’ve been noticing more and more claims like this one, supposedly finding a way to “connect string theory to experiment”. When you look into such claims you don’t find anything at …
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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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With ‘Digital Twins,’ The Doctor Will See You Now Amanda Randles wants to copy your body. If the computer scientist had her way, she’d have enough data — and processing power — to effectively clone you on her computer, run the clock forward, 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
John Dee navigational advisor After our longer discourse on the history of magnetic variation, we return today to the history of navigation in England during the second half of the sixteenth century. John Dee (1527–c. 1608) was a central …
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Retraction Watch
Tracking retractions as a window into the scientific process.
By Alison Abritis, Ellie Kincaid. 🇺🇸 More infoUpdated
Authors up past 60 retractions amid ongoing investigation A. Salar Elahi A group of researchers in Iran now have had more than 60 papers retracted for concerns about peer review and plagiarism as a publisher investigates its back catalog. One of the researchers, …
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Sabine Hossenfelder: Backreaction
Science News, Physics, Science, Philosophy, Philosophy of Science.
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“What one trillion dollar problem will AI solve?” – Business Analysts Ask We’ve all heard how artificial intelligence will supposedly bring giant boosts in productivity, take our jobs, and end humanity, but some business insiders think that AI isn’t going to have remotely as big of an …
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Shtetl-Optimized
The Blog of Scott Aaronson.
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New comment policy Update (July 24): Remember the quest that Adam Yedidia and I started in 2016, to find the smallest n such that the value of the nth Busy Beaver number can be proven independent of the …
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Singularity Hub
By Jason Dorrier, Vanessa Bates Ramirez, Shelly Fan. 🇺🇸 More infoUpdated
China Demonstrates the First Entirely Meltdown-Proof Nuclear Reactor Efforts to expand nuclear power have long been stymied by fears of a major nuclear meltdown. A new Chinese reactor design is the first full-scale demonstration that’s entirely meltdown-proof. Despite the rapid rise of renewable …