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The confession ( Science magazine)
A psychologist has shown how police questioning can get innocent people to condemn themselves. At 16, Huwe Burton...

Interesting lecture about what it would take to get our electric power system to zero CO2 emissions.

Getting to Zero

Obviously it's not so easy...

Damn they're good.

In Alabama's Blount County, off the highway, down a dirt road and up a hill is writer T.K. Thorne's house. She points to her roof and a shining row...

Study: Lab Mice Stressed Out By Male Scientists] Study: Lab Mice Stressed Out By Male Scientists
The Onion

Researchers avoid ‘messy’ hormonal...

An (Even More) Inconvenient Truth (ProPublica)

Why Carbon Credits For Forest Preservation May Be Worse Than Nothing

RIO BRANCO, BRAZIL — The state...

Amazon Is Working on a Device That Can Read Human Emotions

Designed to work with a smartphone app, the device has microphones paired with software...

This is not entirely new (you've probably heard about foxes and hedgehogs before) but I thought it was an interesting read. In general it seems that...

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Gas insulation could be protecting an ocean inside Pluto
Science Daily

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Researchers at Japan's Hokkaido University, the Tokyo...

Google is now publishing a summary of all accidents in which its self-driving have been involved.

Easy to read; fairly easy to understand. They...

A Dallas-based explorer has set a record for the deepest dive ever made in a submersible -- in the world's deepest ocean trench, his organization...

Well, they're calling it a bat-winged dinosaur but you can see the resemblance.

Another Bat-Winged Dinosaur Has Been Found

(It's the size of...

Interesting article on industry practices:
Canadian Oil Driller Abruptly Shuts Down, Abandons 4,700 Wells

A junior Canadian gas E&P company has...

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Awesome photos.

Because nothing resolves an issue like a bunch of mostly amateurs arguing on an obsolete social media platform in a forgotten corner of the internet....

So I was listening to a podcast this weekend about this. There's a new technique called deep brain stimulation that has had some success in treating...

If you you remember that line in the subject line*, you might be as old as ed.

Here's the latest scoop on what might become the first first private...

A female Swedish patient with hand amputation has become the first recipient of an osseo-neuromuscular implant to control a dexterous hand...

You've seen this sort of thing before, but this one is particularly well done.

Best viewed full screen with sound off.

Unfortunately natural selection has collateral damage. ...

Inspired by but really unrelated to a comment by gnome in another thread (follow the...

PowerMax™ Plus mains cable
The benefit of all this care taken in the manufacture? We believe that the cable represents astonishing value as it helps...

The misuse of statistical significance has done much harm to the scientific community and those who rely on scientific advice.

That's from a recent...

For the first time, mathematics' most prestigious prize has been awarded to a woman, Karen Uhlenbeck

Karen Uhlenbeck, a mathematician and...

Germany’s carbon emissions have been flat since 2009, despite an investment of $580 billion by 2025 in a renewables-heavy electrical grid, a 50...

40-foot long boa.

The river basin held turtles with shells twice the size of manhole covers and crocodile kin—at least three different...

Welding breakthrough at Heriot-Watt to transform manufacturing

Researchers at Heriot-Watt University have unveiled a welding breakthrough which...

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Lesbian and bi women at increased risk of being overweight
University of East Anglia via Medicalxpress

Lesbian and bisexual women...

The Chicken Is Local, But Was It Happy? GPS Now Tells The Life Story Of Your Poultry

Shoppers are willing to pay a premium for ingredients that...

More than 1,000 scientists sign ‘dissent from Darwinism’ statement

Earlier this month, a long kept list of Ph.D. scientists who “dissent from...

No degenerate infidel political correctness here. :Muhammad:

Women-tracking app that lets Saudi Arabian men track their wives is ALLOWED on Apple...

Scientists push back against Harvard 'alien spacecraft' theory
Space Daily

A scientific paper led by two researchers at Harvard University made...

Why should a ubiquitous scavenger that dwelt (dwells????) on the ocean's floor become extinct?

Makes no sense. Why? Could it be that they are still...

Should this be in a different forum too? All my threads are so muddled. Anyway

BitCoin

A rhetorical question really 'cause I've already decided...

Who says science has to be boring?

Last week, in Kentucky:
10-Year-Old Wins Science Fair with Project Claiming Tom Brady Is a Cheater

This...

Why the age of quantum computing is nearer than you think

Tech-buffs, investors, IT industrialists, and boffins alike eagerly await the day when...

Great danger: Divers spot the world’s largest ever recorded great white shark - 2.5 ton ‘Deep Blue’ - feasting on a dead whale in Hawaii and JUMP IN...

At the start was:
The Séralini affair was the controversy surrounding the publication, retraction, and republication of a journal article by French...

... just like we know it.

No Andromeda strain coolness, no nuthin'.

Dammit! :evil:

Space microbes aren't so alien after all
Phys Org...

Seems there are some amateur astronomers here on the forum who might be interested in this.

(Or maybe not.)*

The kindle edition is currently...

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Meat-Shaped Stone And Jadeite Cabbage
Amusing Planet

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What makes this piece of art so special is that the rock naturally looks...

Has the TV finally been perfected? Look at these beauties:

LG's 55-inch OLED TV packed with 3D bells, smart TV whistles

The main thing about...

Implantable electrodes

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‘Doomba’ turns your Roomba’s cleaning maps into Doom levels
The Verge

From Space Daily

NASA's New Horizons 3-billion-mile-plus mission to the outer solar system finally got underway Thursday when the half-ton...

I wonder if it's true.

On the one hand, plausible.

On the other hand, this is the Russian side of the story and you know how they are.

The first phonographs simply amplified the sound vibrations of the needle with a big megaphone.

But might there not be a better way?

Such as...