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What causes lightning? The answer keeps getting more interesting

Hacker News Top · 3d ago Cached

Researchers are developing a new understanding of lightning initiation, finding that high-energy processes typically associated with supernovas and particle colliders may play a critical role in how lightning bolts form. Scientists like Joseph Dwyer have applied astrophysics instruments to thunderstorm research, revealing X-rays, gamma rays, and unexpected bolt directions.

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Los Alamos and the long path to detecting neutrinos

Hacker News Top · 3d ago

The article explores the historical and technical challenges involved in the detection of neutrinos, specifically highlighting the contributions and long journey at Los Alamos.

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@FinanceYF5: Science Goes Programmable 1/ The research paradigm is shifting—70 % of scientists can’t reproduce others’ results, and 50 % can’t even reproduce their own experiments a few months later. This isn’t about any single tool being weak; the entire production model needs to be rebuilt.

X AI KOLs Following · 2026-04-21 Cached

The post notes that 70 % of scientists fail to reproduce published results, and 50 % can’t replicate their own experiments months later. It argues the issue isn’t a single inadequate tool but that the whole scientific production model must shift to a programmable paradigm.

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Air Is Full of DNA

Hacker News Top · 2026-04-18 Cached

Nature article discussing how scientists are collecting and analyzing environmental DNA from the air to monitor biodiversity, detect species, and track ecosystem health, with applications for conservation efforts and biological threat detection.

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Gemini 3 Deep Think: Advancing science, research and engineering

Google DeepMind Blog · 2026-02-12 Cached

Google has released a major update to Gemini 3 Deep Think, a specialized reasoning mode designed to solve complex challenges in science, research, and engineering by blending deep scientific knowledge with practical utility.

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PDFMathTranslate: Scientific Document Translation Preserving Layouts

Papers with Code Trending · 2025-07-02 Cached

This paper introduces PDFMathTranslate, an open-source tool for translating scientific documents while preserving their original layout, leveraging large language models and precise layout detection.

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Strengthening America’s AI leadership with the U.S. National Laboratories

OpenAI Blog · 2025-01-30 Cached

OpenAI announces a partnership with U.S. National Laboratories to deploy its o1 reasoning model on the Venado supercomputer at Los Alamos, enabling scientific research across materials science, energy, cybersecurity, and nuclear security with Microsoft providing compute infrastructure.

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