Science is an economic driver in Hamilton, Mont., thanks to Rocky Mountain Laboratories, a federal research lab. Now, layoffs and funding cuts are having an impact in this town far from Washington.

A strong and well-argued rebuttal to NIH criticism

Ingrid Wickelgren in Quanta:

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Most of us see the world in a very narrow band of the EM spectrum. Sure, there are people with a genetic quirk that extends the range a bit into the UV, but it’s a ROYGBIV world for most of u…

"Pasta alla Cacio e pepe" is a traditional Italian dish made with pasta, pecorino cheese, and pepper. Despite its simple ingredient list, achieving the perfect texture and creaminess of the sauce can ...

President Joe Biden signed the bipartisan legislation into law Dec. 23.

On December 10, 2024, the Enforcement Bureau (Bureau) released an Order directing the 2,411 companies named in Appendix A to the Order (each, a Company; collectively, the Companies) to cure the defici...

The two solvents, known as Perc and TCE, cause kidney cancer and other ailments, and have been the subject of years of controversy.

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Neat new RAG technique (with a snappy name) from John Berryman: > The big idea of Roaming RAG is to craft a simple LLM application so that the LLM assistant …

Near the beginning of November, nixCraft posted this challenge on Mastodon, daring people to take the No NAT November challenge and disable IPv4 for the month, relying only on IPv6:

The 18 November 2023 Starship flight and explosions generated large-scale multi-oscillation supersonic conic waves in the ionosphere The cone angle of the V-shaped ionospheric disturbances corres...

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I built a new plugin for my sqlite-utils CLI tool that lets you ask human-language questions directly of SQLite databases and CSV/JSON files on your computer. It’s called sqlite-utils-ask. Here’s …

When it comes to space exploration, we often think of billion-dollar projects—NASA’s Artemis missions, ESA’s Mars rovers, or China’s Tiangong station. Yet, a group of U.S. students at USC’s R…

If you’ve been reading this blog for any length of time, you’ll know that maps and history are two of my favorite things. I love history because I love learning about the vast panoply of the human …

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