Government research bodies are going dark.
That’s in the “radio silence” sense, not in the sense of “shuttering their windows” or “turning bleak.” Not yet, anyway. Buzzfeed reported today the United […]
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SONG: By Numbers
SONG: “By Numbers.” ARTIST: grant. SOURCE:Germany to probe Nazi-era medical science,” Science, 5 Jan 2017, as used in the post “Scientists start identifying the brains […]
Scientists start identifying the brains taken by Nazi researchers.
Science magazine reports on a new mission for German scientists, who are working to identify the human remains stored for study by Nazi euthanasia centers: […]
Robot writer fools journals’ peer-review system.
Times Higher Education reveals the machines are moving beyond physical work and simple sorting, and can now fool academic gatekeepers with their composition skills… in […]
MRI Mulligan? 15 years of neuro research might just have been zapped.
Wired brings up the rather unpleasant prospect of a bug in MRI software invalidating 15 years of brain-scan results: Three of the most popular pieces […]
…or maybe not.
From the Facebook desk of archaeologist Katie Rask (seconded by others) comes the following correction: From the world renowned Maya specialist and Linda Schele Professor […]
David Attenborough… and Subby McSubface
BBC has the final outcome of the Boaty McBoatface saga – the research vessel will be named after documentarist Sir David Attenborough, but will have […]
Go ask Joe Palca a question.
Long-time science journalist Joe Palca (NPR, Science, Nature) will be answering questions at a Reddit AMA around 1pm today. If you’ve got a question you […]
Prostate drug tested as pedophilia treatment… in crowd-funded experiment.
Science has the convoluted story of the prostate-cancer drug that lowers testosterone levels enough that people are willing to try it as a cure for […]
Celebrating happy accidents with The Golden Mole
NPR’s Skunk Bear turns us on (in general, but specifically with this) observing the outsized influence of unanticipated consequences – singling out for awards all […]
Science Art: VII. Scientific Literature, by Finnish artists.
Click to embiggen This is a chapter heading from the book Finland in the Nineteenth Century: by Finnish authors, illustrated by Finnish artists, published in […]
Obama tries to boost science funding on his way out.
Nature reports on the outgoing president’s attempt to boost research & development funding by a mandatory four percent: With less than a year before he […]
And about hyping the science headlines… here’s some research on THAT, too.
Nature finds that research papers have become more “novel” (and “amazing,” “phenomenal,” “encouraging,” and “unprecedented”) than ever before: Researchers at the University Medical Center Utrecht […]
It’s a little reading robot for the whole wide internet.
New Scientist looks at the AI that’s been assigned the unenviable task of reading every scientific paper online and finding the important ones: Semantic Scholar, […]
Wrong Science. As if the p-hacking wasn’t bad enough…
Nature tackles the “reproducibility problem” – trying to find out why some WRONG things get published as being RIGHT, but also how exactly scientists get […]