Blogs about Science

Quantum mechanics is famously unintuitive, but the most intuitive way to think about it is probably the path integral. In the path integral formulation, to find the chance a particle goes from point A to …

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.

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 …

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! …

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 …

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 …

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, …

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. …

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 …

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 …

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, …

Serendipity without physical proximity? Maybe, maybe not.

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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, …

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 …

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 …

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 …