An artificial-intelligence (AI) chatbot can write such convincing fake research-paper abstracts that scientists are often unable to spot them.
The world map as we’re used to seeing it was made for navigation, not for a true comparison of country size. Have a play with this clever tool
Do you perform statistical analyses? Think you’re pretty good at it? Maybe have a read of this before you judge your statistical prowess.
Similar to ‘birding’ (i.e. birdwatching), ‘herping’ is the pursuit and observation of reptiles and amphibians.
Have you ever wondered how accurate physics is in cartoons. “Any body suspended in space will remain in space until made aware of its situation”; “Everything falls faster than an anvil”.
Uni’s want research shared widely. So why don’t they properly support academics to do it? The Conversation explores this question off the back of some new research
While it might not heal severe injuries with the speed of a Marvel superhero, this new technology could radically reduce the time it takes for small cuts to recover.
This open source code provides an implementation of the AlphaFold v2.0 system. It allows users to predict the 3-D structure of arbitrary proteins with unprecedented accuracy.
Top 10 most highly cited papers…that have actually been retracted.
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