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Darwin Was Sexist, and So Are Many Modern Scientists
Scientific American

Analysis: First they came for Art, but I said nothing because I was not...

Forensic scientists caught a deer munching on a human carcass for the first time ever
Popular Science

Two communes in Brittany are going to test them, so apparently they exist. The interesting points are:
– rechargeable in minutes;
– 100 km autonomy;...

Best viewed full screen. :coolspecs:

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Voyager 1 Just Fired Up its Backup Thrusters for the 1st Time in 37 Years
Space.com

NASA's far-flung Voyager 1 spacecraft has...

Don't laugh dammit!

THIS. IS. SCIENCE.

Doing vegetarianism to destabilize the meat-masculinity nexus in La Plata, Argentina
Taylor & Francis...

A very good article (if you forgive the horrid scripting) that includes several real world variations of the Trolley Problem.

Consider this...

Pokémon GO caused hundreds of deaths, increased crashes
The Register

Synopsis: Idiots playing it while driving.

Analysis: Already implicitly...

SpaceX plans to send 100 passengers to Mars by 2024

SpaceX will begin building the first ships that will make the human voyage to Mars possible in...

Evolution in your back garden: Great tits may be adapting their beaks to birdfeeders
Science Daily

Made you look. :P

Just what the title says: .

Tl; dr: it looks bad, but part of the evidence is (still) anecdotal.

So today I have seen umpteen million variations on this headline

Have researchers discovered an alien MEGASTRUCTURE? 'Bizarre' star could be...

Well, there's not enough time to do it now but let's at least get the next one.

A THREE MILE wide asteroid is set to graze past Earth on Sept. 1 -...

While Arecibo recovers:
China's huge new FAST radio telescope discovers two new pulsars

Chinese scientists working on the 500m FAST telescope have...

Casio's '2.5D' printer can mimic leather and fabric

At CEATEC, Casio demoed this Mofrel printing technology that adds a range of textures to...

Those interested in mathematics will have heard of that astonishing guy.

Alexander Grothendieck (German: ; French: ; 28 March 1928 – 13 November...

Hawaii’s Board of Land and Natural Resources today voted 5-2 to approve a permit to build the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT). The vote follows retired...

Russia, US shoot for the moon with joint lunar station project
Space Daily

Synopsis: Just what the headline says + it's a necessary precursor to...

A recent paper published in Nature suggests that global warming may not be as severe as previous studies predicted.

Limiting global warming to 1.5...

Paging Dr. Venkman...

When he got home, he took his supplies into his office. He heated up his soldering iron, hoping his wife wouldn’t see what...

A mostly unthoughtful opinion on AI
I, for one, do not welcome our new robot overlords.

Let me elaborate.

Writing about Artificial Intelligence is...

So what are you doing? I'm putting my telescope on the sidewalk and probably not blinding the kiddos.

Also all participants will receive one of these

This is SCIENCE!

Synopsis: You can easily drug people into not giving a shit about anything, therefore racism can be eliminated pharmaceutically....

Look what I found.

Enjoy! :coolspecs:

What's going on with bitcoin...

CNET: Bitcoin Cash Splits In Two In Blockchain Feud

Can someone who understands this better comment on the...

On Valentine's day, they attached red mylar heart balloons to each desk. Out of a perverse curiosity I have simply left mine there to see how long it...

It is now technically possible and the concept has been experimentally proven:

First Human Embryos Edited in U.S.

The first known attempt at...

This is weird. And not at all what I expected.

As I was watching, I was struck by how much the conversation resembled some of the interactions on...

They could have just called it a large factory, but gigafactory sounds cooler.

Apparently they are going to make it in Nevada (congrats Nyar!)

Ever-Elusive Neutrinos Spotted Bouncing Off Nuclei for the First Time

A new technology for detecting neutrinos represents a “monumental” advance...

To create the bell curves, Dr. Hansen and two colleagues compared actual summer temperatures for each decade since the 1980s to a fixed baseline...

After the invention of RollerBlades™ (inline roller skates), a new word was needed to refer to all those old style roller skates that are not inline...

Exclusive: CNN witnesses US Navy's drone-killing laser

I know it's been deployed since 2014 but it is back in the news.

Has a 1 mile range....

Chipotle will stop serving GMO foods — despite zero evidence they're harmful to eat

Chipotle Wants to Sell “Food With Integrity.” Dropping GMOs Is...

Well this is scary:

Gene drive is a molecular technique that slips a new gene into an organism and guarantees that it will be inherited by...

Won by a lady, Maryam Mirzakhani, hooray! The old dungeon crumbles…

But not everywhere:

standard picture:

retouched to preserve the...

This one is for DJI drone owners who are also code monkeys, otherwise this article will either be amusing or incredibly boring.

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Hackers...

Cuts through watermelons.

I searched the forum for bitcoin and apparently there is some interest in this topic, so here's a recent news item:

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Don't panic, but...

I got to this via PZ Myers.

I'll note first that PZ tore into this guy as being an anti-intellectual reverse-snob, whatever the fuck that is.

But...

Summary

Quantum entanglement has moved out of this world and into space. In a study that shows China's growing mastery of both the quantum world...

Scientists confirmed Wednesday that a much anticipated break at the Larsen C ice shelf in Antarctica has occurred, unleashing a massive iceberg that...

Abstract

The population extinction pulse we describe here shows, from a quantitative viewpoint, that Earth’s sixth mass extinction is more severe...

About the Museum

The Icelandic Phallological Museum is probably the only museum in the world to contain a collection of phallic specimens belonging...

Billionaire Mark Cuban says never stop learning:
Here are the 2 things he is studying now
Catherine Clifford, Tuesday, 27 Jun 2017 | 1:53 PM ET...

Overpopulated and
Underfed: Countries
Near a Breaking Point

By BILL MARSH JUNE 15, 2017

Mass migration, starvation, civil unrest: Overpopulation...

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The Court of Justice of the European Union ruled Wednesday that courts may consider vaccines to be the cause of an illness, even in the absence of...