Is this a mad scientist being busted? Something worse?
Ars Technica covers a weird, almost cinematic story out of California, where law enforcement officials have, following a code-enforcement tip, just busted an illegal lab […]
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SONG: The Scientist (a penitential Coldplay cover)
SONG: “The Scientist (a penitential cover)” [Download] . (available as .ogg here) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: This isn’t based on research It’s a cover of this […]
Despite their public stance, Exxon’s internal science team had a clear view on climate change.
Ars Technica looks at the way Exxon executives decided to bury their own company’s very accurate findings on petroleum and climate: Exxon’s scientific climate work […]
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SONG: “14.8 Million” [Download] . ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Nature 14 Dec 2022, “Missing data mean we’ll probably never know how many people died of COVID,” […]
More people died of COVID-19 than we know. Or ever will know. Because data is missing.
Nature reports on the gaps in information that mean the official counts of people who died as a result of COVID-19 are much, much lower […]
Paleontology drama: Scientist accused of faking asteroid-death data to scoop colleague.
Science is not a publication normally given to interpersonal conflict. But now it’s covering the story of the weird competition between Robert DePalma and Melanie […]
Want your research cited by other scientists? Give your paper a funny title.
Nature reveals one of the weird truths about the way we do science. Publishing research is sometimes referred to as “the academic conversation,” and analysis […]
Science Art: 5c The Sciences single, U.S. Postal Service, 1963.
An image of science in the abstract, the spirit of science as imagined at the dawn of the Space Age, from the National Postal Museum, […]
SONG: Deeper Than Love (a penitential Colleen Green cover)
SONG: “Deeper Than Love (a penitential Colleen Green cover)” [Download] . ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: There is no scientific source. This is a penitential cover of […]
SONG: Science (a penitential cover)
SONG: “Science (a penitential cover)” [Download] ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: This has no scientific source data; it’s a penitential cover for being late for the April […]
Nobel CRISPR research as a sporting competition – or a war.
Defector, a media outlet I’m rooting for, basically came to be when a bunch of Deadspin staffers refused to follow the corporate edict, “Stick to […]
We’re still looking at the effects of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Science magazines has some striking visualizations of the atomic bombing’s long-lasting repercussions in their latest issue – and have had their graphics managing editor, Alberto […]
Bored with hanging out at home? Count some penguins (or spot some galaxies) for science.
Scientific American has some suggestions for your self-isolation. There are a few ways you can help researchers out without ever leaving home: “I think where […]
How do you say “dinosaur” in Zulu?
BBC Future muses over the ways in which language can limit scientific research – when you don’t have the words for a concept: For Zulu-speaking […]
Scientists endorse civil disobedience to get somebody to actually do something about climate change.
Reuters reports on scientists – 400 of them – who have shed the stereotypical dispassionate patience that goes with, you know, gathering data over long […]