science

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/40199859

In 2002, Maine became the first state to implement a statewide laptop program to some grade levels. Then-governor Angus King saw the program as a way to put the internet at the fingertips of more children, who would be able to immerse themselves in information.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-74234-2

It sounds like science fiction: collecting a person’s blood cells, engineering them so they eventually transform into immature sperm, and then incubating them in a tiny pouch grown on a mouse’s kidney.

The second Trump administration has launched a concerted attack on science produced inside and outside the government. It will take years to understand fully the implications of cancelling billions of dollars in research grants to the nation’s universities and undermining EPA’s expertise and destroying IRIS.

Bumblebees collect up to seven times the amount of toxic heavy metals as honeybees even when foraging in the same environment, new research has discovered. Exposure to these metals can affect everything from their ability to forage for food to their ability to reproduce.

Up on the dam, almost everything that looks like a problem becomes an advantage.

“When losses happen, somebody’s got to pay for it.”

People with depression or depressive symptoms may be more heavily motivated by the likes they get on social media, according to an international study of Twitter users.

A new study examines the emerging science suggesting a link between calorie-free sweeteners and blood sugar control.

This is the first cohort of folks that age who were offered the HPV vaccine when they were 12 or 13.

It follows Republican outrage over Mamdani offering the same heatwave advice as everyone else.

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The European Space Agency’s Euclid space telescope has discovered 31 of the most ancient quasars ever found. Two of these giant and dazzling galaxy cores, powered by gargantuan black holes, are the earliest quasars yet observed in cosmic history. They shone with the light of a trillion Suns back when the Universe was 670 million years old – just 5% of its current age.

Hacker News.

The prestigious New England Journal of Medicine retracted an article about results from a study used to win regulatory approval of a controversial drug at the center of a small Bay Area company’s multibillion-dollar acquisition by Amgen Inc.

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In a study posted on the preprint server bioRxiv, the authors report that papers that were probably produced by paper mills frequently cite, or are cited by, other potentially fraudulent articles. Paper mills are businesses that produce and sell low-quality manuscripts — often containing fabricated data and results — designed to resemble genuine research.

Drinking a beer a night for a year is a lot less harmful than drinking 365 at once. Radiation is similar, as long-term studies of those living near Chernobyl, Three Mile Island and Fukushima suggest (along with a bunch of other interesting scenarios where people have inadvertently been exposed to radiation for a long time)

Pioneering physicist Max Planck had two papers retracted decades after his death for reasons that remain mysterious.