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Headline: These Billion-Dollar AI Startups Have No Products, No Revenue and Eager Investors Subheadline: Flapping Airplanes is one of a wave of new startup research labs drawing intense interest from inv

Lmao

mRNA cancer vaccine shows protection at 5-year follow-up, Moderna and Merck say The vaccines are tailor-made to target each patient's unique cancer.

Some fantastic news!
arstechnica.com/health/2026/...

Bad boyars!

Is "catalytically adequate" a thing

YouTube video by Marvin Gaye - Topic How High The Moon

The only thing more surprising than learning that Marvin Gaye recorded a rendition of How High The Moon is learning that it's not particularly good

m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ui2R...

Aspiring scientists: STEM is great. But also, have you read a poem recently

Believe it: Indiana is the Big Ten champ and the College Football Playoff’s No. 1 seed Indiana won its first outright Big Ten title since 1945 by knocking off the previously perfect Buckeyes.

The real deal, absolutely amazing

Humans, sentient beings that are capable of moral decision making and feelings like loyalty, cannot be counted on to keep nuclear secrets, why should we expect that the machines would be any better

The 2025 chemistry Nobel goes to MOFs Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi win the prize for developing metal–organic frameworks

The 2025 #NobelPrize in Chemistry has been awarded to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi “for the development of metal–organic frameworks.” Stay tuned for the full story to come! cen.acs.org/people/nobel...

#ChemNobel #Chem #Chemistry #chemsky 🧪

The official website of the Nobel Prize - NobelPrize.org The Nobel Prize rewards science, humanism and peace efforts. This is one of the central concepts in the will of Alfred Nobel, and it also permeates the outreach activities that have been developed for...

Six of the nine Nobel Prize winners this year work in the U.S.
Three of the six were born outside the U.S., which is the pattern most years. No country has benefited more from welcoming immigrants from around the world.
www.nobelprize.org

Brian Peter George Jean-Baptiste de la Salle Eno, RDI: A Retrospective

I submit that the greatest opening to a written work in the English language isn't even from a novel

I've read that we have a cognitive bias to treat easy/intuitive explanations as more credible. Do you think your subjects infer the meaning of jargon from their own experience (and realize they don't actually know when asked) or are they solely treating jargon as [credibility noise]?

ChatGPT Lost a Chess Game to an Atari 2600 And on the 'Beginner' difficulty level, too.

Deep Blue is 30 years old and was capable of defeating chess grand champions. It could be housed in a single cabinet.

ChatGPT spans untold data centers devouring massive amounts of electricity and it got its ass whipped by an 8 bit gaming console from the 1970s.

Sly Stone, pioneering leader of funk band Sly and the Family Stone, dies at 82 Sly Stone, the pioneering leader of the funk band bearing his name, Sly and the Family Stone, has died, according to his family. Stone was 82 years old.

Sly Stone, pioneering leader of funk band Sly and the Family Stone, has died at 82

The Bethesda Declaration

A call to stand up and show support for the Bethesda Declaration, the NIH, and for federally funded science in general.

America is ceding the lead in creating the future The renowned American management consultant and author Peter Drucker is often credited as saying that “the best way to predict the future is to create it”—a view that applies to science as much as to ...

Marcia McNutt has been saying that the US is doing a huge experiment with China as the control. The global scientific community will still produce knowledge. But not being in the lead has bad implications for US flourishing. My column:
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

You don't hate chemistry. You fear chemistry, with its lack of boundaries...what's an acid? What's a salt? Is carbon dioxide an organic molecule? What's happening, the shapes, the chaos

I did two interviews this morning with two different innovators in *very* different fields and halfway through, unprompted, each was like "oh yeah and by the way the main reason we exist is government funding of research, this breakthrough would be totally impossible without it"

A screenshot of a Reuters article stating that the US FDA suspended milk quality test workforce cuts.

Previous to the FDA, folks would put chalk and plaster of Paris in milk to make it appear white. They could also add formaldehyde to cover the smell and taste of spoiled milk.

🧪 Tip: You have the right to contest a grant termination, even though NSF says you don't. 🧵

On Friday, NSF terminated 402 grants (per Musk's DOGE).

The notification letters had one of the most egregious violations of fed regulations I've seen so far in these cases:

"not subject to appeal"

A hundred years ago, the average life expectancy was <50. Today, it is ~80.

What made the difference? Public Health. Public health, however, is not some magic entity happening in a vacuum - it requires people.

Without those people, there can be no Public Health. That serves no one.

Wake up.

It strikes me as odd that an article that ostensibly explores the question of "what if THIS AI is the real deal?" doesn't start with the necessary premise that "AI will either be the biggest waste of money in history OR privately held companies will successfully render humans obsolete"

Something Bizarre Is Happening to People Who Use ChatGPT a Lot ChatGPT "power users," or those who use it the most, are becoming dependent upon — or even addicted to — the chatbot.

It’s pretty easy to imagine the trends we’ve seen from smartphones (alienation, anxiety, reduced reading comprehension and persistence) compounded dramatically by LLMs.

Un scientifique utilise la chimie pour créer des œuvres d'art visuelles époustouflantes. En combinant différents éléments et réactions chimiques, il produit des images fascinantes dans une goutte d'eau 💧!

Imagine yourself at the pinnacle of your career. You've spent years or decades earning the respect of hard-to-impress colleagues and are one of ~10 names everybody in your profession knows. Then a new nepo hire decides you should be fired

That's this, except you're being fired from CURING CANCER

YouTube video by Filmatic Every Lie We Tell Incurs a Debt to the Truth | Chernobyl S01E05

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Well then if it's me I print out this picture and put it up over the light switch with an aggressive quantity of duct tape, maybe even with a bunch of glitter behind it if were improperly removed

I don't know if you're allowed to make modifications to your lab space but there are several options for keyed light switch locks like below. Put a note on the coverplate instructing them to find lab personnel to open the door