science
- Noah Shachtman: Strange New Air Force Facility Energizes Ionosphere, Fans Conspiracy Flames
- "It's as close to a religious experience as you're ever going to get."
- 2009-07-25 to bestof, physics, radio, science, warfare by soobrosa
- Erin Biba: Amber Ale - Brewing Beer from 45-Million-Year-Old Yeast
- This was the closest humanity had come to the discovery imagined in Jurassic Park.
- 2009-07-25 to bestof, biology, cloning, drink, genetics, history, science by soobrosa
- Evan Ratcliff: Origin of Species - How a T. Rex Femur Sparked a Scientific Smackdown
- Everyone suspected dinosaurs were giant birds; then one researcher produced 68 million-year-old protein to prove it. Critics rejected those findings as statistical junk. How a femur sparked a new field of biology—and a scientific smackdown.
- 2009-07-05 to bestof, biology, evolution, method, science, statistics, story by soobrosa
- Guy Gugliotta: The Genius Index - One Scientist's Crusade to Rewrite Reputation Rules
- In the scientific community, journal citations are the coin of the realm.
- 2009-06-09 to bestof, measurement, meritocracy, networks, reputation, science by soobrosa
- Victoria Gill: Ants inhabit 'world without sex'
- An Amazonian ant has dispensed with sex and developed into an all-female species
- 2009-05-06 to bestof, biology, evolution, reproduction, science, sex by soobrosa
- Magic and the Brain: Teller Reveals the Neuroscience of Illusion
- "Tricks work only because magicians know, at an intuitive level, how we look at the world," says Macknik, lead author of the paper. "Even when we know we're going to be tricked, we still can't see it, which suggests that magicians are fooling the min
- 2009-05-04 to bestof, brain, human, magic, mind, mystery, neuroscience, perception, portrait, science, tricks by bagoly
- Steven Pinker: The Canon - A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science
- The costs of an ignorance of science are not just practical ones like misbegotten policies, forgone cures and a unilateral disarmament in national competitiveness.
- 2009-05-03 to basics, bestof, books, science by soobrosa
- John Bohannon: Gamers Unravel the Secret Life of Protein
- The online game Foldit is designed to reveal the shortcuts nature uses to weave a tangle of amino acids, like the one shown here, into a protein.
- 2009-05-03 to bestof, community, competition, crowdsourcing, gaming, science by soobrosa
- Incognito
- Evidence mounts that brains decide before their owners know about it.
- 2009-04-28 to bestof, brain, consciousness, decision, science by soobrosa
- The Civil Heretic - Freeman Dyson - Profile - NYTimes.com
- How world-renowned scientist Freeman Dyson wound up opposing those who care most about global warming
- 2009-04-22 to bestof, global warming, science by darkeye
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