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Smoking bans are coming: what does the evidence say? (nature.com)

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Feathers are one of evolution's cleverest inventions (scientificamerican.com)

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mSAIL: Milligram-Scale Sensor Platform for Monarch Butterfly Migration Tracking (acm.org)

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Getting the Grid to Net Zero (ieee.org)

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Scientists find a naturally occurring molecule that forms a fractal (sciencenews.org)

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Tatooine, Trisolaris, Thessia: Sci-Fi Exoplanets Reflect Real-Life Discoveries (eos.org)

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The Fairbuds noise-canceling earbuds have an easily swappable battery (theverge.com)

a year ago | sohkamyung | theverge.com | newest

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Steven Levitt and John Donohue defend the abortion-crime hypothesis (economist.com)

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Engineers at Digital Equipment Corp. Saved Ethernet (ieee.org)

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Investigation reveals how superconductivity physicist faked blockbuster results (nature.com)

a year ago | sohkamyung | nature.com | frontpage

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Inkjets are for more than just printing (ieee.org)

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The future of at-home molecular testing (nature.com)

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Vernor Vinge has died (file770.com)

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Talking with Michael Moorcock About His Music: Part 1 (file770.com)

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How Zipline Designed Its Droid Delivery System (ieee.org)

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The neuroscientist formerly known as Prince's audio engineer (nature.com)

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[flagged] Young men and women are drifting apart (economist.com)

a year ago | sohkamyung | economist.com | best

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A new spin on Betelgeuse's boiling surface (mpg.de)

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Evidence for a player in Earth's multimillion-year climate cycles: Mars (theconversation.com)

a year ago | sohkamyung | theconversation.com | newest

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PikaPython: Cross platform ultra lightweight embedded Python engine (github.com/pikastech)

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Robber flies track their beetle prey using tiny microbursts of movement (theconversation.com)

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Sign language brings benefits to the organic chemistry classroom (nature.com)

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Weather forecasts have become more accurate (ourworldindata.org)

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The science of Oppenheimer: meet the Oscar-winning movie's specialist advisers (nature.com)

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An obsessed insect hunter: The creepy-crawly origins of daylight savings (bbc.com)

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Iris (Infra-Red, in Situ) Project Updates (bunniestudios.com)

a year ago | sohkamyung | bunniestudios.com | frontpage

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Sycamore Gap: New life springs from rescued tree (bbc.com)

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Exposing Systemic Vulnerabilities of LLMs Through a Prompt Hacking Competition (arxiv.org)

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Radio astronomy: from amateur roots to worldwide groups (physicsworld.com)

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'Ring of Fire' Rocket Engines Put a New Spin on Spaceflight (scientificamerican.com)

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Hurried Thoughts: You're Wrong About Tidal-Locking (worldbuildingpasta.blogspot.com)

a year ago | sohkamyung | blogspot.com | best

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Scans of Vertebrate Specimens Released (physicsworld.com)

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New Royal Mail stamps will feature dinosaurs and celebrate Mary Anning (nhm.ac.uk)

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Digital Geneva Clock (instructables.com)

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Tiny Core Linux 15 stuffs modern computing in a nutshell (theregister.com)

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View Nova Explosion, 'New' Star in Northern Crown (nasa.gov)

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Cold Chemistry Is Different (aps.org)

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Poor Kenyans became economists' guinea pigs (economist.com)

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Investigating the effect of crystallisation via a school citizen science program (rsc.org)

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Robert Badinter persuaded France to abolish the guillotine (economist.com)

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The desert planet in 'Dune' is plausible, according to science (sciencenews.org)

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Lenovo Certified Refurbished (lenovo.com)

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The Butterfly Redemption (hakaimagazine.com)

a year ago | sohkamyung | hakaimagazine.com | frontpage

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Heat Pumps Take on Cold Climates (ieee.org)

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The Digital Masquerade: Unmasking AI's Phantom Journalists (ajeastin.com)

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Science Fiction Short: Hijack (ieee.org)

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Measuring gravity with milligram levitated masses (science.org)

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1,700 Year Old Egg Never Broke (atlasobscura.com)

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AEgIS makes positronium for antimatter gravity experiments (home.cern)

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IC Chip with irregular spaced pins (aus.social)

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Structural biology for researchers with low vision (nature.com)

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Welding of Plutonium (1958) [pdf] (fas.org)

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For Hundreds of Years, People Thought California Was an Island (atlasobscura.com)

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The Rise and Fall of Philips Data Systems (researchgate.net)

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The United States Has an Updated Map of Earthquake Hazards (eos.org)

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Can you manage your house with a local, no-cloud voice assistant? Mostly, yes (arstechnica.com)

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Open-Source Security Chip Released (ieee.org)

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100 Years Ago, IBM Was Born (ieee.org)

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Before Ingenuity ever landed on Mars, scientists almost managed to kill it (arstechnica.com)

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Bioluminescent houseplant hits US market for first time (nature.com)

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How does Hawking radiation work? (bigthink.com)

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Walter Shawlee, the sovereign of slide rules, has died (nytimes.com)

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1.63B-year-old fossil may rewrite the history of multicellular life (bigthink.com)

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Please Welcome Joe Brockmeier to LWN (lwn.net)

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Anchovy spawning causes temperature swings and turbulence in ocean layers (hakaimagazine.com)

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I started fossil hunting in my 60s – now I have more than 2k pieces (nature.com)

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Greenfield: Wayland in the Browser, an Update [video] (fosdem.org)

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Prosthetic limbs need not look like real ones (economist.com)

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It's time to admit that genes are not the blueprint for life (nature.com)

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The case for a virtual Rust stateless codec driver [video] (fosdem.org)

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Lego Ideas: The Martian (lego.com)

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Self-assembly of the smallest and tightest molecular trefoil knot (nature.com)

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We've already seen category 6 hurricanes – scientists want to make it official (eos.org)

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GitHub Innovation Graph (innovationgraph.github.com)

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Deepfake CFO tricks Hong Kong biz out of $25M (theregister.com)

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Why woodpeckers don't get stuck in trees (mielke-bio.info)

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Experts clash over report suggesting fluoride can affect brain development (science.org)

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Why autoimmune disease is more common in women: X chromosome holds clues (nature.com)

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New genetic variants found in large Chinese mother–baby study (nature.com)

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Spider webs capture environmental DNA from terrestrial vertebrates (cell.com)

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Testing quantum electrodynamics in extreme fields using helium-like uranium (nature.com)

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The Clock of Flowing Time (atlasobscura.com)

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By chance I documented a shark's power to regenerate its sabotaged fin (theconversation.com)

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German train company looking for a Windows 3.11 administrator (mastodon.social)

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Bugs in our pockets: the risks of client-side scanning (oup.com)

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Feynman's Reversed Sprinkler Puzzle Solved (aps.org)

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Two months in Servo: better inline layout, stable Rust, and more (servo.org)

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2024 IEEE Medal of Honor Goes to Bob Kahn (ieee.org)

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Against the odds, Notre Dame cathedral will reopen this year (economist.com)

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Tracking Down Tuberculosis (nature.com)

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Portable EPUBs (willcrichton.net)

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I discovered a tiny frog that lives its whole life inside one plant (theguardian.com)

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A Wild Claim about the Powers of Pi Creates a Transcendental Mystery (scientificamerican.com)

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Centrifugal flows drive reverse rotation of Feynman's sprinkler (aps.org)

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Green steel from red mud through climate-neutral hydrogen plasma reduction (nature.com)

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"RUR and the Vision of Artificial Life" by Karel Čapek, Jitka Čejková (mitpress.mit.edu)

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New era begins as Australian Bogong thruster proves successful (cosmosmagazine.com)

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Krypton panopticon: trapped atoms form one-dimensional gas (cosmosmagazine.com)

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We are just temporary occupants of this office (lettersofnote.com)

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The Case for Nuclear Cargo Ships (ieee.org)

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