Letter from Shanghai: Reflections on China in 2024—#73 § culture of science in China & AI arms races
How a Silly Science Prize Changed My Career: A Levitating Frog, a Necrophiliac Duck, Taxi Drivers’ Brains—The Ig Nobel Prizes Have Shined a Spotlight on Offbeat Work. Here’s an inside Look at How Winners Feel about This Sometimes Unwanted ‘Honor’
The effect of seeing scientists as intellectually humble on trust in scientists and their research
Statistical Patterns in the Equations of Physics and the Emergence of a Meta-Law of Nature
Teachers and the Transmission of Excellence: Disentangling Selection and Training
Autonomous LLM-driven research from data to human-verifiable research papers
Artificial Intelligence for Retrosynthetic Planning Needs Both Data and Expert Knowledge
Solar Eclipses and the Origins of Critical Thinking and Complexity
GenCast: Diffusion-based ensemble forecasting for medium-range weather
Element abundance patterns in stars indicate fission of nuclei heavier than uranium
Scaling transformer neural networks for skillful and reliable medium-range weather forecasting
America, Jump-Started: World War II R&D and the Takeoff of the US Innovation System
The Impact of Large Language Models on Scientific Discovery: a Preliminary Study using GPT-4
Fair coins tend to land on the same side they started: Evidence from 350,757 Flips
Connecting Spatial Thinking to STEM Learning through Visualizations
Impact of major awards [Nobel & MacArthur] on the subsequent work of their recipients
#147: Forging the mRNA Revolution—Katalin Karikó § Education & Ambition
How people decide who is correct when groups of scientists disagree
What the Scientists Who Pioneered Weight-Loss Drugs Want You to Know
Harm Hypervigilance in Public Reactions to Scientific Evidence
Resting on Their Laureates? Research Productivity Among Winners of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Learning to Generate Novel Scientific Directions with Contextualized Literature-based Discovery
Saving time and money in biomedical publishing: the case for free-format submissions with minimal requirements
Advances in apparent conceptual physics reasoning in GPT-4
Political endorsement by Nature and trust in scientific expertise during COVID-19
Model scale versus domain knowledge in statistical forecasting of chaotic systems
The Art of the Shadow: How Painters Have Gotten It Wrong for Centuries [From The Visual World of Shadows]
Organic reaction mechanism classification using machine learning
AI Insights into Theoretical Physics and the Swampland Program: A Journey Through the Cosmos with ChatGPT
Recent Advances in Polymorph Discovery Methods of Organic Crystals
A deep learning and digital archaeology approach for mosquito repellent discovery
Prediction and politics in Beijing, 1668: A Jesuit astronomer and his technical resources in a time of crisis
Lazarus Stars: Numerical investigations of stellar evolution with star-lifting
Caught in the Crossfire: Fears of Chinese-American Scientists
A causal limit to communication within an expanding cosmological civilization
Science beliefs, political ideology, and cognitive sophistication
Polymathy Among Nobel Laureates As a Creative Strategy—The Qualitative and Phenomenological Evidence
Generating Scientific Claims for Zero-Shot Scientific Fact Checking
Magnetic control of tokamak plasmas through deep reinforcement learning
Synthetic fat from petroleum as a resilient food for global catastrophes: Preliminary techno-economic assessment and technology roadmap
Pushing the frontiers of density functionals by solving the fractional electron problem
Behind the scenes of the 1957 Chapel Hill Conference on the role of gravitation in physics
Amateur hour: Improving knowledge diversity in psychological and behavioral science by harnessing contributions from amateurs
Mining for strong gravitational lenses with self-supervised learning
Missing link between talent development and eminence: why gifted students abandon their pursuit of science
Estimating the Additive Heritability of Historiometric Eminence in a Super-Pedigree Comprised of 4 Prominent Families
Isochoric Freezing and Its Emerging Applications in Food Preservation
How is science clicked on Twitter? Click metrics for Bitly short links to scientific publications
The Quantum Field Theory on Which the Everyday World Supervenes
E(3)-Equivariant Graph Neural Networks for Data-Efficient and Accurate Interatomic Potentials
Does Tweeting Improve Citations? One-Year Results from the TSSMN Prospective Randomized Trial
Predicting scientific breakthroughs based on knowledge structure variations
Compensatory conspicuous communication: Low status increases jargon use
Water on Mars: discovery of three buried lakes intrigues scientists: Researchers have detected a group of lakes hidden under the red planet’s icy surface.
M51-ULS-1b: The First Candidate for a Planet in an External Galaxy
Once-daily, subcutaneous vosoritide therapy in children with achondroplasia: a randomized, double-blind, phase 3, placebo-controlled, multicentre trial
‘Dwarf Pride’ Was Hard Won. Will a Growth Drug Undermine It?: An experimental medication that increases height in children with the most common form of dwarfism has raised hope that it can help them lead easier lives. But some say the condition is not a problem in need of a cure.
Can Self-Replicating Species Flourish in the Interior of a Star?
CERN makes bold push to build €21-billion supercollider: European particle-physics lab will pursue a 100-kilometre machine to uncover the Higgs boson’s secrets—but it doesn’t yet have the funds
How Do Scientific Views Change? Notes From an Extended Adversarial Collaboration
Shadow of the great firewall: The impact of Google blockade on innovation in China
GNS: Learning to Simulate Complex Physics with Graph Networks
A single-component water-lean post-combustion CO2 capture solvent with exceptionally low operational heat and total costs of capture—comprehensive experimental and theoretical evaluation
Video-Guided Real-to-Virtual Parameter Transfer for Viscous Fluids
Novelist Cormac McCarthy’s Tips on How to Write a Great Science Paper: The Pulitzer Prizewinner Shares His Advice for Pleasing Readers, Editors and Yourself
We Need a New Science of Progress: Humanity needs to get better at knowing how to get better
Universal quantum control through deep reinforcement learning
The Halo Drive: Fuel-Free Relativistic Propulsion of Large Masses via Recycled Boomerang Photons
Linking plasma formation in grapes to microwave resonances of aqueous dimers
The Price of Gravity: Private Patronage and the Transformation of Gravitational Physics after World War II
The Random Walk of Cars and Their Collision Probabilities with Planets
Early Industrial Roots of Green Chemistry and the history of the BHC Ibuprofen process invention and its Quality connection
Quark-level analogue of nuclear fusion with doubly-heavy baryons
Accelerating Science with Generative Adversarial Networks: An Application to 3D Particle Showers in Multi-Layer Calorimeters
Blind Analysis as a Correction for Confirmatory Bias in Physics and in Psychology
What Does Any of This Have To Do with Physics? Einstein and Feynman ushered me into grad school, reality ushered me out
The golden age of Calcutta physics: Difficulties in reconstructing the history
Exploration and exploitation of Victorian science in Darwin’s reading notebooks
Do Scholars Follow Betteridge’s Law? The Use of Questions in Journal Article Titles
Ten Simple Rules for Lifelong Learning, According to Hamming
Quantification of Pizza Baking Properties of Different Cheeses, and Their Correlation with Cheese Functionality
Finite time blowup for an averaged three-dimensional Navier-Stokes equation
Science and Engineering Indicators 2014 § Chapter 7: Public Attitudes and Understanding
Does the John Bates Clark Medal Boost Subsequent Productivity and Citation Success?
Niels Bohr between Physics and Chemistry: Bohr’s Atomic Theory Was Addressed As Much to Chemical Problems As to Physical Ones. But the Great Scientist’s Intent to Establish a New Framework for Atomic and Molecular Chemistry Was Less Successful, and Was Unacknowledged by Most Chemists
Richard W. Hamming: Curiosity And Collaboration Define A Coding Career
Detection Technique for Artificially-Illuminated Objects in the Outer Solar System and Beyond
Bell Labs Memoirs: Voices of Innovation: 5. Alan G. Chynoweth
Urban Scaling and Its Deviations: Revealing the Structure of Wealth, Innovation and Crime across Cities
John von Neumann and Klaus Fuchs: an Unlikely Collaboration
The physical principles of thermonuclear explosives, inertial confinement fusion, and the quest for fourth generation nuclear weapons
Torsion balance experiments: A low-energy frontier of particle physics
Arts foster scientific success: Avocations of Nobel, National Academy, Royal Society, and Sigma Xi members
10 Simple Rules for Doing Your Best Research, According to Hamming
On the Behavior of Journal Impact Factor Rank-Order Distribution
The extraordinarily beautiful physical principle of thermonuclear charge design (on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the test of RDS-37—the first Soviet two-stage thermonuclear charge)
Artistic Scientists and Scientific Artists: The Link Between Polymathy and Creativity
Comment on ‘Galileo’s discovery of scaling laws’, by Mark A. Peterson [Am. J. Phys. 70 (6), 575–580 (2002)]–Galileo and the existence of hell
Landau’s Theoretical Minimum, Landau’s Seminar, ITEP in the Beginning of the 1950’s
Provenance in Contest: Searching for the Origins of Jesuit Astronomy in Early Qing China, 1664–1705
The Radioactive Boy Scout: When a teenager attempts to build a breeder reactor
How Popular is Your Paper? An Empirical Study of the Citation Distribution
Introduction to the structure and chemistry of superconducting materials
Classical Computation can be Counterfactual 1996-09-02 V1.1 (or Can Schrodinger’s Cat Collapse the Wavefunction?)
Towards the Total Synthesis of Cyclo[N]carbons and the Generation of Cyclo[6]carbon
Tumbling toast, Murphy’s Law and the fundamental constants
Correlations Between Avocations, Scientific Style, Work Habits, and Professional Impact of Scientists
You and Your Research: a Stroke of Genius: Striving for Greatness in All You Do
(Para)bosons, (para)fermions, quons and other beasts in the menagerie of particle statistics
Henry Adams, the Second Law of Thermodynamics, and the Course of History
Practicing Western Science Outside the West: Personal Observations on the Indian Scene
The Nobel Scientists and the Origins of Scientific Achievement
Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle and the Many Worlds Interpretation of Quantum § Alienness Mechanics
Paul Darwin Foote (1888–1971) § The Temperature of Heaven & Hell
The Encyclopaedia of Ignorance: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about the Unknown
The Formation of Soviet Research Institutes: A Combination of Revolutionary Innovation and International Borrowing
Thematic Origins of Scientific Thought: Kepler To Einstein
The Step to Man: This Book Is Concerned With the Evolving Nature of Man, Social and Intellectual, What He Is and What He May Become
The Step to Man: Our Recent Era of Change May Be Converging to a Unique Historical Transformation to a New Kind of Life
Death of a Project: Research is stopped on a system of space propulsion which broke all the rules of the political game
Kepler‘s Conversation With Galileo’s Sidereal Messenger: First Complete Translation, With an Introduction and Notes
Strong Inference: Certain Systematic Methods of Scientific Thinking May Produce Much More Rapid Progress Than Others
Is the Scientific Paper Fraudulent? Yes; It Misrepresents Scientific Thought
The Scientist Speculates: An Anthology of Partly-Baked Ideas
Science Looks at Life in 2057 A.D.: A Geneticist, a Rocket Expert, a Biologist, Two Chemists and a Psychologist Peer into the Future and Find It Generally Good—Provided Mankind Survives That Long
Turbidity currents and submarine slumps, and the 1929 Grand Banks [Newfoundland] earthquake
A Possible Explanation of the Behavior of the Hydrogen Lines in Giant Stars
The Effect of Size on the Equipment of the Queen’s Dolls’ House
Ist Die Trägheit Eines Körpers Von Seinem Energieinhalt Abhängig? [Does the Inertia of a Body Depend upon Its Energy-Content?]
A View of Nature: In Letters to a Traveller Among the Alps v2 § Letter 48
No Physics? No Problem. AI Weather Forecasting Is Already Making Huge Strides.
Ancient Courses: Harold Fisk’s Meander Maps of the Mississippi River (1944)
Marxist Astronomy: The Milky Way According to Anton Pannekoek
The Nobel Laureate Versus the Graduate Student: John Bardeen, the Leading Condensed Matter Theorist of His Day, Was Quite Wrong When He Dismissed a Startling Prediction by the Unknown Brian Josephson
A Reflection on Richard Hamming’s ‘You and Your Research’: Striving for Greatness
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Letter from Shanghai: Reflections on China in 2024—#73 § culture of science in China & AI arms races
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Artificial Intelligence for Retrosynthetic Planning Needs Both Data and Expert Knowledge
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Solar Eclipses and the Origins of Critical Thinking and Complexity
Scaling transformer neural networks for skillful and reliable medium-range weather forecasting
Impact of major awards [Nobel & MacArthur] on the subsequent work of their recipients
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What the Scientists Who Pioneered Weight-Loss Drugs Want You to Know
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Resting on Their Laureates? Research Productivity Among Winners of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
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Saving time and money in biomedical publishing: the case for free-format submissions with minimal requirements
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Organic reaction mechanism classification using machine learning
Recent Advances in Polymorph Discovery Methods of Organic Crystals
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Science beliefs, political ideology, and cognitive sophistication
Polymathy Among Nobel Laureates As a Creative Strategy—The Qualitative and Phenomenological Evidence
Magnetic control of tokamak plasmas through deep reinforcement learning
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Pushing the frontiers of density functionals by solving the fractional electron problem
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How is science clicked on Twitter? Click metrics for Bitly short links to scientific publications
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Shadow of the great firewall: The impact of Google blockade on innovation in China
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The Halo Drive: Fuel-Free Relativistic Propulsion of Large Masses via Recycled Boomerang Photons
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Early Industrial Roots of Green Chemistry and the history of the BHC Ibuprofen process invention and its Quality connection
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Ten Simple Rules for Lifelong Learning, According to Hamming
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Does the John Bates Clark Medal Boost Subsequent Productivity and Citation Success?
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Arts foster scientific success: Avocations of Nobel, National Academy, Royal Society, and Sigma Xi members
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Artistic Scientists and Scientific Artists: The Link Between Polymathy and Creativity
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Practicing Western Science Outside the West: Personal Observations on the Indian Scene
Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle and the Many Worlds Interpretation of Quantum § Alienness Mechanics
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Paul Darwin Foote (1888–1971) § The Temperature of Heaven & Hell
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Death of a Project: Research is stopped on a system of space propulsion which broke all the rules of the political game
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