How Broken Hyperlinks are Screwing Up Science
Investigation into academic articles find 80 per cent of scientific papers contained rotten links.
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Investigation into academic articles find 80 per cent of scientific papers contained rotten links.
An interesting study about the ‘autism epidemic’ of recent years used data from children born between 1993 and 2002 to compare time trends in the rates of the autism and registered clinical diagnoses of autism spectrum disorder.
Science fiction authors have come up with all manner of ways to achieve FTL travel but will we, as real, living humans ever exceed the cosmic speed limit?
Programmable vibrators are the new frontier in customisable gadgets, and we got a taste of what they’re like.
SimEarth was right about one thing. The best way to wet up a planet? Hurl a load of icy asteroids at it.
Fat blooms, the white stuff you sometimes get on chocolate, have long been the bane of chocolate makers and chocolate lovers. Now we know why it happens.
Until now electron microscopes have struggled to capture imagery at the atomic and molecular level, but this image shows just how much that's changing. Read More >>
A study at Sam Houston State University, Texas, suggests that insect diversity on cadavers is far more diverse than anyone ever imagined.
Between 5% and 12% of hospital patients in the EU are thought to acquire a 'superbug' infection during their stay. This has led doctors to consider many alternative strategies.
Talking about sex doesn’t have to be X-rated — and in some cases, it shouldn’t be.
After working in an Ebola-stricken nation, Dr. Ian Crozier was to found to have replicating reservoir of the Ebola virus in his ocular region.
It sounds terrifying but could lead to personalised medicine for individual cancer patients.
Transcranial direct current stimulation is apparently not a miracle brain-enhancing practice.
This stunning aerial photograph of the Very Large Telescope platform somehow reminds me of a smaller base in a real time strategy game, like Starcraft or Total Annihilation. Read more >>
The Icelandic word for 'computer' literally translates as the wonderfully poetic “prophetess of numbers”.
Brain tissue is very soft and full of water, and through autolysis it usually begins to decompose rapidly after death. Nevertheless, it can sometimes be preserved.
