9 Best Articles in 2021
nature
Adding is favoured over subtracting in problem solving
nature
4 min read · Apr 8th · People tend to solve problems by adding features.
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Apr 28th · This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 License. This means you're free to copy and share these comics (but not to sell them). More details.
Science Magazine
Artificial intelligence is evolving all by itself
Science Magazine
3 min read · 2020-04-13 · Advance replicates decades of AI research in days
The New Yorker
The Day the Dinosaurs Died
The New Yorker
20+ min read · From 2019 · A young paleontologist may have discovered a record of the most significant event in the history of life on Earth.
nature
How philosophy is making me a better scientist
nature
4 min read · Apr 27th · Rasha Shraim’s education helped her to think more deeply about ethics, logic and other big questions.
Nautilus Magazine
Is Matter Conscious?
Nautilus Magazine
~13 min read · 2020-02-28 · The nature of consciousness seems to be unique among scientific puzzles. Not only do neuroscientists have no fundamental explanation…
The New Yorker
The Contrarian Coronavirus Theory That Informed the Trump Administration
The New Yorker
5 min read · 2020-03-29 · Richard Epstein, a professor at N.Y.U. School of Law, discusses two articles he wrote, on the Hoover Institution Web site, entitled “Coronavirus Perspective” and “Coronavirus Overreaction,” and his…
universitytimes.ie
JSTOR Makes Database Accessible to the Public
universitytimes.ie
1 min read · 2020-03-19 · The online academic resource has made over 6,000 ebooks and over 150 journals accessible without the need for an online login.
WIRED
The Teeny, Tiny Scientific Screwup That Helped Covid Kill
WIRED
2 min read · May 13th · All pandemic long, scientists brawled over how the virus spreads. Droplets! No, aerosols! At the heart of the fight was a mysterious error in decades-old research.
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Fake science is getting faker — thanks, AI
TNW
~12 min read · Jul 3rd · AI is making it even hard to deal with the fake science crisis we are currently facing, as papers are being generated to AI sytems
The New York Times
Did a Cuttlefish Write This?
The New York Times
10 min read · Jul 9th · Octopuses and squid are full of cephalopod character. But more scientists are making the case that cuttlefish hold the key to unlocking evolutionary secrets about intelligence.
The Atlantic
Why Are Gamers So Much Better Than Scientists at Catching Fraud?
The Atlantic
8 min read · Jul 2nd · A pair of recent cheating scandals—one in the “speedrunning” community of gamers, and one in medical research—call attention to an alarming contrast.
Quanta Magazine
Mathematicians Prove Symmetry of Phase Transitions
Quanta Magazine
8 min read · Jul 8th · A group of mathematicians has shown that at critical moments, a symmetry called rotational invariance is a universal property across many physical systems.
Axios
Text-reading AI will do your research for you
Axios
1 min read · Jul 15th · Primer rolls out NLP Engines, AI models that can read and analyze text of all kinds.
Freakonomics
Why Is Academic Writing So Bad? (NSQ Ep. 56)
Freakonomics
1 min read · Jun 13th · Also: what does your perfect day look like?
Science Magazine
Scientists quit journal board, protesting ‘grossly irresponsible’ study claiming COVID-19 vaccines kill
Science Magazine
6 min read · Jul 1st · Critics say authors of Vaccines report misrepresented Dutch data
nature
Mix-and-match COVID vaccines: the case is growing, but questions remain
nature
6 min read · Jul 1st · A slew of studies suggests that mixing vaccines provokes potent immune responses, but scientists still want answers on real-world efficacy and rare side effects.
Scientific American
Black Holes, Quantum Entanglement and the No-Go Theorem
Scientific American
3 min read · Jul 4th · New research shows that there are problems even quantum computers might never be able to solve
PsyPost.org
The "Sci-Hub effect" can almost double the citations of research articles, study suggests
PsyPost.org
2 min read · Jul 12th · Scientific articles that get downloaded from the scholarly piracy website Sci-Hub tend to receive more citations, according to a new study published in ...
