Top Hackernews posts from www.pnas.org

1. Wolves make roadways safer (www.pnas.org)
   500 points by ingve almost 5 years | 242 comments
2. Personal experiences bridge moral and political divides better than facts (www.pnas.org)
   388 points by lobbly over 5 years | 164 comments
3. People mistake the internet’s knowledge for their own (www.pnas.org)
   304 points by nabla9 almost 5 years | 189 comments
4. Farmland practices are driving bird population decline across Europe (www.pnas.org)
   296 points by tfourb over 3 years | 254 comments
5. Language records reveal a surge of cognitive distortions in recent decades (www.pnas.org)
   283 points by jbotz about 5 years | 148 comments
6. Light exposure during sleep impairs cardiometabolic function (www.pnas.org)
   276 points by sndean over 4 years | 122 comments
7. Farm vehicles approaching weights of sauropods exceed limits for soil function (www.pnas.org)
   250 points by ciconia over 4 years | 213 comments
8. No evidence for nudging after adjusting for publication bias (www.pnas.org)
   246 points by ororm about 4 years | 238 comments
9. Serotonin selectively influences moral judgment and behavior (www.pnas.org)
   240 points by pier25 over 4 years | 189 comments
10. Consciousness is supported by near-critical slow cortical electrodynamics (www.pnas.org)
    228 points by hsnewman over 4 years | 100 comments
11. Historical language records show surge of cognitive distortion in recent decades (www.pnas.org)
    224 points by gumby about 4 years | 91 comments
12. Supermassive Dark Star candidates seen by JWST (www.pnas.org)
    218 points by misja111 about 3 years | 85 comments
13. Eye contact marks the rise and fall of shared attention in conversation (www.pnas.org)
    218 points by rzk almost 4 years | 172 comments
14. Widespread misperceptions of long-term attitude change (www.pnas.org)
    208 points by larsiusprime about 4 years | 188 comments
15. Blood sugar level follows perceived time rather than actual time in diabetics (www.pnas.org)
    194 points by ve55 almost 5 years | 82 comments
16. Slowed canonical progress in large fields of science (www.pnas.org)
    178 points by phreeza almost 5 years | 72 comments
17. SOBA: Potential blood test for Alzheimer's disease (www.pnas.org)
    161 points by WaitWaitWha over 3 years | 36 comments
18. Communication costs are 35-fold computational costs in the human brain (2021) (www.pnas.org)
    151 points by ofou over 4 years | 71 comments
19. The impact of childhood lead exposure on adult personality (2021) (www.pnas.org)
    150 points by tokai over 4 years | 100 comments
20. The abundance, biomass, and distribution of ants on Earth (www.pnas.org)
    149 points by Vaslo almost 4 years | 91 comments
21. Catalog of viruses from human metagenomes reveals chronic disease associations (www.pnas.org)
    146 points by rch over 5 years | 9 comments
22. Half of US population exposed to adverse lead levels in early childhood (www.pnas.org)
    140 points by nabla9 over 4 years | 97 comments
23. Individuals prefer to harm their own group rather than help an opposing group (www.pnas.org)
    135 points by sohkamyung almost 4 years | 184 comments
24. Experienced well-being rises with income, even above $75,000 per year (www.pnas.org)
    126 points by paulpauper over 5 years | 157 comments
25. The rise and fall of rationality in language (www.pnas.org)
    124 points by olifante almost 5 years | 58 comments
26. Ultraconserved words point to deep language ancestry across Eurasia (2013) (www.pnas.org)
    108 points by benbreen over 4 years | 69 comments
27. Acquisition of chess knowledge in AlphaZero (www.pnas.org)
    103 points by Rant423 almost 4 years | 49 comments
28. Transistor Made of Wood (www.pnas.org)
    97 points by tlubinski over 3 years | 22 comments
29. National hiring experiments reveal 2:1 preference for women on STEM tenure track (2015) (www.pnas.org)
    94 points by Melchizedek over 5 years | 42 comments
30. Preventing extreme polarization of political attitudes (www.pnas.org)
    90 points by Lwepz almost 5 years | 289 comments
31. Deep genetic affinity between coastal Pacific and Amazonian natives (www.pnas.org)
    88 points by Thevet over 5 years | 30 comments
32. Non–line-of-sight imaging over 1.43km [pdf] (www.pnas.org)
    81 points by walterbell over 5 years | 20 comments
33. Dolphin mothers modify signature whistles in the presence of their own calves (www.pnas.org)
    78 points by gumby about 3 years | 86 comments
34. Viable offspring derived from single unfertilized mammalian oocytes (www.pnas.org)
    75 points by birriel over 3 years | 30 comments
35. Climate endgame: exploring catastrophic climate change scenarios (www.pnas.org)
    73 points by anigbrowl about 4 years | 57 comments
36. Seafloor changes associated with the degradation of Arctic submarine permafrost (www.pnas.org)
    67 points by perihelions over 4 years | 6 comments
37. Fire use: The first signal of widespread cultural diffusion in human evolution (www.pnas.org)
    67 points by harscoat about 5 years | 32 comments
38. Insects and the origins of consciousness (2015) (www.pnas.org)
    65 points by hardmaru almost 5 years | 11 comments
39. Long-run effects of religious persecution: evidence from the Spanish Inquisition (www.pnas.org)
    65 points by k__ almost 5 years | 73 comments
40. MIT study finds indoor mask wearing much more effective than social distancing (www.pnas.org)
    63 points by antattack over 5 years | 37 comments
41. Is novel research worth doing? Evidence from peer review (www.pnas.org)
    63 points by deletionist almost 4 years | 53 comments
42. Sex differences in human functional brain organization (www.pnas.org)
    61 points by gmays over 2 years | 15 comments
43. Conceptual knowledge increases infants' memory capacity (2008) (www.pnas.org)
    59 points by rzk over 4 years | 12 comments
44. Scientific progress despite irreproducibility: A seeming paradox (www.pnas.org)
    59 points by nabla9 about 5 years | 57 comments
45. The difficulty of computing stable and accurate neural networks (www.pnas.org)
    59 points by programd over 4 years | 24 comments
46. Photomolecular effect leading to water evaporation exceeding the thermal limit (www.pnas.org)
    59 points by croes almost 3 years | 21 comments
47. The consumption of viruses returns energy to food chains (www.pnas.org)
    59 points by zdw over 3 years | 11 comments
48. Carbon–cement supercapacitors as a scalable bulk energy storage solution (www.pnas.org)
    58 points by joak about 3 years | 1 comments
49. Deception abilities emerged in large language models (www.pnas.org)
    58 points by zzzeek over 2 years | 53 comments
50. Thinking about God increases acceptance of AI in decision-making (www.pnas.org)
    57 points by Koaisu about 3 years | 79 comments
51. Adaptive social networks promote the wisdom of crowds (www.pnas.org)
    52 points by tosh about 5 years | 44 comments
52. From second thoughts on the germ theory to a full-blown host theory (www.pnas.org)
    52 points by Hooke about 3 years | 21 comments
53. Depleted carbon isotope compositions observed at Gale crater, Mars (www.pnas.org)
    50 points by areoform over 4 years | 39 comments
54. Robotic swimming in curved space via geometric phase (www.pnas.org)
    50 points by obert about 4 years | 16 comments