List: Science | Curated by Hermes Solenzol

Feb 16, 2025
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Axel Casas, PhD Candidate
Stop Reading Papers Without Doing ThisDon’t waste your time like me
Feb 16
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Feb 16
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Avi Loeb
The Oldest Relics Must be Younger than the UniverseThe lowest mass stars have 8% of the mass of the Sun and can live for up to 12 trillion years. This lifespan is 870 times longer than the…
Feb 8
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Feb 8
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Wise & Well
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The Conversation U.S.
Fake Scientific Papers Contaminate Legitimate Scholarly OutputSham journals publish bogus studies that cloud and delay publication of real science on lifesaving treatments
Feb 6
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Feb 6
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Fossils et al.
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Selena Routley
Sexuality, O Wondrous Mother of InventionSexual Reproduction sparked the dawn of the Age of Eukaryote and the magnificence of life as we know it on our sublime planet
Feb 5
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Feb 5
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George Dillard
From Scientific Spite to Political PettinessA history of petulant, childish, and otherwise silly renamings
Feb 5
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Feb 5
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Starts With A Bang!
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Ethan Siegel
Government-censored science ruined the USSR. Is the USA next?With a flurry of threats to scientists, science funding, and health policy, the USA now faces a crisis reminiscent of Soviet-era…
Feb 6
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Feb 6
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Rebecca Jean T.
Have We Entered Solar Maximum? It Looks Like ItNASA and NOAA announced we entered solar maximum in October last year. What does that mean?
Jan 13
Jan 13
In
Read or Die — HQ
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Dr. Lutz Kraushaar
They Claimed You Age In Bursts At 44 And 60. Then I Double CheckedIllustrative vivisection of a deceitful omics paper in a prestigious journal, ballyhooed by top media outlets.
Jan 26
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Jan 26
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Starts With A Bang!
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Ethan Siegel
What’s hotter than the hottest stars in the Universe?Here in our Universe, stars shine brightly, providing light and heat to planets, moons, and more. But some objects get even hotter, by far.
Jan 20
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Jan 20
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Starts With A Bang!
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Ethan Siegel
25 year update on the “Millennium problems” in physicsIn the year 2000, physicists created a list of the ten most important unsolved problems in their field. 25 years later, here’s where we…
Jan 14
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Jan 14
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Katrina Paulson
Scientists Confirm that Language is Not Required for ThinkingThe connection between language and thinking has been a bit of a chicken or an egg debate, but the results are in.
Jan 18
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Jan 18
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The Knowledge of Laughter
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David Graham
22 Hilarious Quotes From Albert Einstein That Will Brighten Up Your DayEinstein’s genius stretched to humour, here is the proof
Aug 5, 2023
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Aug 5, 2023
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The Knowledge of Laughter
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David Graham
12 Hilarious Albert Einstein Jokes to Brighten Up Your DayYou will find this relatively hilarious
Jan 19
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Jan 19
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Starts With A Bang!
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Ethan Siegel
Ask Ethan: How do photons mediate both attraction and repulsion?The electromagnetic force can be attractive, repulsive, or “bendy,” but is always mediated by the photon. How does one particle do it all?
Jan 17
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Jan 17
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Wise & Well
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John Kruse MD, PhD
The Surge in Transgender Individuals Generates Huge PushbackMuch remains unknown, but substantial medical science shows that affirmative transgender care helps.
Jan 16
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Jan 16
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Starts With A Bang!
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Ethan Siegel
The quantum reason that ultra-massive stars are forbiddenThere’s no upper limit to how massive galaxies or black holes can be, but the most massive known star is only ~260 solar masses. Here’s…
Jan 15
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Jan 15
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Kristie Leong M.D.
I Studied How Different Countries Sleep. Here’s the Mind-Blowing Truth About RestThe Brutal Reality Check You Need to Hear
Dec 31, 2024
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Dec 31, 2024
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Chris Ferrie
Quantum Uncertainty ExplainedDemystifying the science of quantum physics
Jan 10
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Jan 10
11
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Fossils et al.
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Silvia PM, PhD - Climate Ages
The Oldest Mammal Ancestor Ever Found Was Discovered in MallorcaWhat Mallorca’s Gorgonopsian Tells Us About Mammalian Origins
Jan 8
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Jan 8
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The Quantastic Journal
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艾米心amihart
Quantum Mechanics is Really “Relational” And Not An “Objective Collapse Theory”Different observers can describe the same system in fundamentally different ways, yet quantum mechanics ensures that predictions made from…
Jan 4
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Jan 4
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