It has been bouncing back for 2,000 years and counting Photograph: Josh Edgoose Dec 14th 2023|LONDON It was not an auspicious time to open a pub in central London. When Michael Belben and his business
Some scientists think so. Others doubt the cells even exist Neurogenesis in actionImage: Maura Boldrini Nov 15th 2023|Washington, DC ONE OF THE first signs of Alzheimer’s disease is confusion. Most pe
What lies beneath a Louisiana lake It lurks beneathImage: Getty Images Nov 15th 2023 New species are generally found rather than awakened. And they are typically discovered in remote places like rainf
The economic consequences could be grim Image: Patrick Leger Nov 2nd 2023|NEW YORK NOT LONG ago, as interest rates in the rich world hovered near zero, economists debated whether their downward march
It is already making research faster, better, and more productive Image: Shira Inbar Sep 13th 2023 In 2019, scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) did something unusual in moder
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WHEN RUSSIA invaded Ukraine last year, the Black Sea seemed unlikely to become much of a battleground. The Ukrainian navy, after all, had only one warship, which it was forced to scuttle as Russian troops advanced on the shipyard where it was being…
The heyday of music blogs was all about community, competition, and context. One ex-blogger reminisces on this unique and short-lived chapter of music history.
In this post I will hopefully detail my entire home network. Some of this has been in separate posts explaining single items, but nowhere do I have all of the network in one post with all the changes
In the late nineteen-nineties, a neuroscientist named Mark Blumberg stood in a lab at the University of Iowa watching a litter of sleeping rats. Blumberg was then on the cusp of forty; the rats were n
Sep 3rd 2023|Shanghai Ernie Bot has some controversial views on science. China’s leading artificial-intelligence (AI) chatbot, which was released to the public on August 31st, reckons that covid-19 or
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