The New York Times
A.I. Predicts the Shapes of Molecules to Come
6 min read · Jul 22nd · DeepMind has given 3-D structure to 350,000 proteins, including every one made by humans, promising a boon for medicine and drug design.
The New York Times
Watch This Billion-Year Journey of Earth’s Tectonic Plates
3 min read · Feb 6th · A new simulation offers a different view of how the continents we live on drifted into their current configuration.
WIRED UK
The mRNA vaccine revolution is just beginning
2 min read · Jun 3rd · mRNA brought us a Covid-19 vaccine in record speed. Next it could tackle flu, malaria or HIV
Ness Labs
Taste: why we like what we like
4 min read · Apr 7th · 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.
PLOS
Effective injury forecasting in soccer with GPS training data and machine learning
20+ min read · Apr 18th · 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 Spectrum
Stop Calling Everything AI, Machine-Learning Pioneer Says
Apr 2nd · Michael I. Jordan explains why today’s artificial-intelligence systems aren’t actually intelligent
nature
Ten computer codes that transformed science
~15 min read · Jan 20th · From Fortran to arXiv.org, these advances in programming and platforms sent biology, climate science and physics into warp speed.
Aeon+Psyche
The mathematical case against blaming people for their misfortune
5 min read · Jan 18th · Complexity science reveals the hard limits of our predictive abilities, and makes a mathematical case for compassion
The New York Times
He Was a Stick, She Was a Leaf; Together They Made History
6 min read · 2020-12-01 · A surprise clutch of eggs has solved a century-old leaf insect mystery.
Aeon+Psyche
If language began in the hands, why did it ever leave?
~14 min read · 2020-07-24 · If language began with gestures around a campfire and secret signals on hunts, why did speech come to dominate communication?
Quanta Magazine
Math of the Penguins
5 min read · 2020-08-17 · Emperor penguins display rigorously geometric spacing and mathematical efficiency when they huddle together for warmth, which may reveal secrets to their overall health.
nature
Controversial cave discoveries suggest humans reached Americas much earlier than thought
4 min read · 2020-07-22 · Archaeologists say stone artefacts point to occupation more than 30,000 years ago — but not everyone is convinced.
Nautilus Magazine
Math as Myth
9 min read · From 2016 · Out of all of the infinite numbers in the world, there are precious few that are given their own letter from the all-too-finite Greek…
The Atlantic
Virus Experts Aren’t Getting the Message Out
~12 min read · 2020-05-06 · If the authorities can’t satisfy the public’s desire to know more, others will fill the void with misinformation.
Science Magazine
Scientists are drowning in COVID-19 papers. Can new tools keep them afloat?
7 min read · 2020-05-13 · The hunt is on for better ways to collect and search pandemic studies
The New York Times
Overlooked No More: June Almeida, Scientist Who Identified the First Coronavirus
8 min read · 2020-05-09 · In 1966, she used a powerful electron microscope to capture an image of a mysterious pathogen — the first coronavirus known to cause human disease.
