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Not alive, but not dead: disembodied human brains used for drug testing
Qian Xuesen: The missile genius America lost and China gained (2025)
Japan is gripped by mass allergies. A 1950s project is to blame
Growing Neural Cellular Automata
RuView – See through walls with WiFi
Why is almost everyone right-handed? A new study connects it to bipedalism
Colonization of Venus
I found ultra-pure quantum crystals in an abandoned mine in the Atacama desert
Elon Musk has lost his lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI
WHO declares major outbreak of Ebola virus species an international emergency
Build a Radio Wave Detector with Balls of Aluminum Foil
Scientists ID 'corkscrew killer' behind gruesome seal deaths
Ask an Astronaut: 333 hours of Q&A footage with astronauts
How Diamonds Are Made
Prolog Basics Explained with Pokémon
Stochastic Parrots: Frequently Unasked Questions
I 3D Printed Origami [video]
How an Australian Teen Team Is Making Radio Astronomy Affordable for Schools
The Physics–and Physicality–Of Extreme Juggling (2018)
California's Battery Array Is as Powerful as 12 Nuclear Power Plants
The bird eye was pushed to an evolutionary extreme
Naturally Occurring Quasicrystals
Microscale Thermite Reaction
The nuclear-physics infrastructure behind PET scans
More than sixty percent of the United States is experiencing drought conditions
On The Conflation of Money and Things
Swift bricks to be installed on all new buildings in Scotland
The Tree House: A voyage to the source of a backyard dream
Avoiding and reducing microplastic false positives from dry glove contact
What can singing mice say about human speech?
As researchers age, they produce less disruptive work
Seeing Birdsong
The people preserving the scientific practice of bird banding
SpaceX wants to launch a million satellites. Here's how that could impact the atmosphere and the night sky
The River Otter's Remarkable Comeback
What Causes Lightning? The Answer Keeps Getting More Interesting
Light without electricity? Glowing algae could make it possible
Los Alamos and the long path to detecting neutrinos
Perturb-MARS: Reading mouse experiments through a human lens
A Theory of Deep Learning
The Thinking Plant's Man
Urban Birds Are Rising Earlier Because of Traffic Noise (2013)
Researchers print structural colour with an inkjet printer
I'm Scared About Biological Computing
Nocturnal migratory birds follow rhythm of the moon
Show HN: I Built a Museum Exhibit
'Point of no return': New Orleans relocation must start now due to sea level