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‘Finally, a virus got me.’ Scientist who fought Ebola and HIV reflects on…
6 min read · 364 saves · May 08 · Top virologist Peter Piot spent 1 week at a London hospital in April and has been recovering at home since
If history was more like science, would it predict the future?
~13 min read · 242 saves · May 12 · Historians believe that the past is irreducibly complex and the future wildly unpredictable. Scientists disagree. Who’s right?
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230 saves · May 08 · This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 License. This means you're free to copy and share these…
‘Milestone’ Evidence for Anyons, a Third Kingdom of Particles
3 min read · 104 saves · May 12 · Dana Najjar · Anyons don’t fit into either of the two known particle kingdoms. To find them, physicists had to erase the third…
A Case for Cooperation Between Machines and Humans
4 min read · Paywall possible · 101 saves · May 21 · John Markoff · A computer scientist argues that the quest for fully automated robots is misguided, perhaps even dangerous. His decades of warnings…
Humans are complicated—do we need behavioral science to get through this?
8 min read · 96 saves · May 16 · Some scientists think social science isn’t ready for the COVID-19 crisis.
Meet this super-spotter of duplicated images in science papers
~12 min read · 96 saves · May 13 · Helen Shen · Elisabeth Bik quit her job to spot errors in research papers — and has become the public face of image…
The Uncounted Dead
~16 min read · 92 saves · May 20 · Why some people who likely died from COVID-19 aren’t included in the final numbers.
If You Found That ‘Plandemic’ Video Convincing, Read This Too
~11 min read · 90 saves · May 08 · There’s a video out there that claims to show a scientist being silenced by the government. I keep seeing people…
The Lack of Testing Is Holding Science Back
9 min read · Paywall possible · 88 saves · May 09 · Harold Varmus · The urge to reopen society far outpaces scientific discovery. Ten scientists offer a plan to close the gap.