Reuters
Many of us fight sleep. Here’s why we should stop
· Shared by 43, including Andy Kirk | Visualising Data, Jon Schwabish, Martina Pugliese, Julia Wolfe, feilding cage
nature
Nature’s 10
3 min · · Ten people who helped shape science in 2022 · Shared by 161, including Martina Pugliese, Eric Topol, Aníbal M. Astobiza
Science Magazine
Science’s 2022 Breakthrough of the Year: A telescope’s golden eye sees the universe anew
20+ min · · JWST makes a spectacular debut, AI gets creative, giant bacteria surprise, and the year’s other big advances in science · Shared by 131, including News from Science, Martina Pugliese, Roger Highfield
experimentalhistory.substack.com
The rise and fall of peer review
12+ min · · Why the greatest scientific experiment in history failed, and why that's a great thing · Shared by 649, including Matt Ridley, Liam Bright, Lea Verou, Roger Highfield, Kevin Mitchell @WiringtheBrain@ mstdn .social, Nolen Gertz, Douglas Karr, Balaji, Pippa Norris, Agnes Callard, Paul Graham, zooko❤ⓩ🛡🦓🦓🦓, Brian D. Earp, Ph.D., Dr Rani Lill Anjum 🐦, Amjad Masad, Robin James, Peter Steinberger, Jonathan Birch, Marc Andreessen -- e/acc, Anita Leirfall
Science Magazine
Researchers have gone bananas over this fruit’s complex ancestry
3 min · · Genomic analyses suggest three mysterious ancestors contributed DNA to the modern-day banana · Shared by 12, including Roger Highfield, Martina Pugliese, News from Science
e360.yale.edu
Unraveling the Causes of the Pandemic, and Preparing for the Next
11+ min · · David Quammen was one of the first science writers to report on the spillover of viruses from wildlife to humans. In an interview with Yale Environment 360, he talks about what scientists now know –… · Shared by 5, including Martina Pugliese
nature
Il percorso a ostacoli della nuova mappa sismica italiana
8 min · · Da ormai tre anni, istituzioni scientifiche e governative non trovano l’accordo su uno strumento cruciale per la prevenzione del rischio sismico. · Shared by 4, including Martina Pugliese
Quanta Magazine
To Learn More Quickly, Brain Cells Break Their DNA
5 min · · New work shows that neurons and other brain cells use DNA double-strand breaks, often associated with cancer, neurodegeneration and aging, to quickly express genes related to learning and memory. · Shared by 211, including Miguel Angel Escotet, Martina Pugliese, ipfconline in vacation mode :) will be back Sept.4, Nicolas Babin, Tactical Tech, Dr. Marcell Vollmer 🇺🇦 #StaySafe #VivaTech, Harpreet Singh, Carly
The New York Times
A.I. Predicts the Shapes of Molecules to Come
6 min · · DeepMind has given 3-D structure to 350,000 proteins, including every one made by humans, promising a boon for medicine and drug design. · Shared by 125, including Richard MacManus, Denise Silber - BasilStrategies - VRforHealth, Nir Eyal, Martina Pugliese, Ajit Pai, Lenore Skenazy, Dr. Marcell Vollmer 🇺🇦 #StaySafe #VivaTech, Eric Topol, Paul Roetzer, Michael (मुकेश), Cade Metz, Nicolas Babin, Iain Brown, PhD, Martin Ford, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer
The New York Times
Watch This Billion-Year Journey of Earth’s Tectonic Plates
3 min · · A new simulation offers a different view of how the continents we live on drifted into their current configuration. · Shared by 14, including Martina Pugliese, TaylorLorenz.Substack.com
WIRED UK
The mRNA vaccine revolution is just beginning
2 min · · mRNA brought us a Covid-19 vaccine in record speed. Next it could tackle flu, malaria or HIV · Shared by 50, including Amesh Adalja, Martina Pugliese, Howard Getson, John Nosta, Jason Silva, Nicolas Babin, Berci Meskó, MD, PhD
Ness Labs
Taste: why we like what we like
4 min · · Our taste is shaped by our genes, culture, and experiences. We have way less control over what we like than we think. But there is space for experimentation, reflection, and playfulness. · Shared by 368, including Anne-Laure Le Cunff, Martina Pugliese, Peter Herger
PLOS
Effective injury forecasting in soccer with GPS training data and machine learning
20+ min · · Injuries have a great impact on professional soccer, due to their large influence on team performance and the considerable costs of rehabilitation for players. Existing studies in the literature…
IEEE
Stop Calling Everything AI, Machine-Learning Pioneer Says
· Michael I. Jordan explains why today’s artificial-intelligence systems aren’t actually intelligent
nature
Ten computer codes that transformed science
15+ min · · From Fortran to arXiv.org, these advances in programming and platforms sent biology, climate science and physics into warp speed. · Shared by 397, including l. ones, rogerverhoeven, Stephan Woodtli, Francesco Corea, Martina Pugliese, Reto Knutti, Nathan Benaich, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Chris Isak, Howard Getson, Rifki Caesar Novaldin, Nico Müller 🇺🇦
Aeon+Psyche
The mathematical case against blaming people for their misfortune
5 min · · Complexity science reveals the hard limits of our predictive abilities, and makes a mathematical case for compassion · Shared by 161, including Nir Eyal, Jason Silva, Tom Connor, Matthias Lampe, Marylin Delgado (@marylindelgado@zirk.us), l. ones, Gregg Caruso, Martina Pugliese