Top Hackernews posts from www.science.org

1. Superconductor news: What’s claimed, and how strong the evidence seems to be (www.science.org)
   1239 points by etiam about 3 years | 470 comments
2. A room-temperature superconductor? New developments (www.science.org)
   1215 points by nneonneo about 3 years | 774 comments
3. The Uselessness of Phenylephrine (www.science.org)
   799 points by hprotagonist over 4 years | 592 comments
4. Scientist busts myths about how humans burn calories (www.science.org)
   755 points by sohkamyung over 4 years | 727 comments
5. Widely used chemical strongly linked to Parkinson’s disease (www.science.org)
   721 points by lonelyasacloud over 3 years | 325 comments
6. Multiple Sclerosis Causality (www.science.org)
   635 points by nabla9 over 4 years | 244 comments
7. Potential fabrication in research threatens the amyloid theory of Alzheimer’s (www.science.org)
   604 points by panabee about 4 years | 256 comments
8. Sugar Substitutes Surprise (www.science.org)
   459 points by hprotagonist almost 4 years | 300 comments
9. Gut microbe linked to depression in large health study (www.science.org)
   450 points by pella over 4 years | 289 comments
10. Deliberately optimizing for harm (www.science.org)
    445 points by herodotus over 4 years | 279 comments
11. Who's downloading pirated papers? Everyone (2016) (www.science.org)
    437 points by azalemeth about 5 years | 157 comments
12. Ten years after the Higgs, physicists face the nightmare of finding nothing else (www.science.org)
    423 points by pseudolus over 4 years | 301 comments
13. Modern city dwellers have lost about half their gut microbes (www.science.org)
    398 points by Hooke about 4 years | 297 comments
14. Bee and butterfly numbers are falling, even in undisturbed forests (www.science.org)
    394 points by pseudolus over 3 years | 221 comments
15. Covid-19 may have killed nearly 3M in India, far more than official counts show (www.science.org)
    393 points by pseudolus over 4 years | 398 comments
16. Always the same warning signs (www.science.org)
    374 points by rossdavidh over 3 years | 191 comments
17. First malaria vaccine reduces early childhood mortality (www.science.org)
    365 points by rbanffy almost 3 years | 117 comments
18. Measurement of the W boson mass reveals 7σ deviation from calculations (www.science.org)
    356 points by nvalis over 4 years | 151 comments
19. Taurine deficiency as a driver of aging (www.science.org)
    350 points by gumby over 3 years | 292 comments
20. Argonne National Lab is attempting to replicate LK-99 (www.science.org)
    337 points by carabiner about 3 years | 201 comments
21. Ancient redwoods recover from fire by sprouting 1000-year-old buds (www.science.org)
    334 points by sohkamyung almost 3 years | 118 comments
22. A near-disaster at a nuclear weapons lab takes toll on America’s arsenal (2017) (www.science.org)
    327 points by midwestfounder almost 4 years | 248 comments
23. A New Mode of Cancer Treatment (www.science.org)
    322 points by atomroflbomber about 3 years | 208 comments
24. An mRNA-based anti-tick vaccine (www.science.org)
    320 points by chapulin over 4 years | 103 comments
25. Citizen scientists report global rapid reductions in the visibility of stars (www.science.org)
    318 points by geox over 3 years | 225 comments
26. Tiny number of 'supersharers' spread the majority of fake news (www.science.org)
    317 points by cainxinth over 2 years | 319 comments
27. Nuclear fallout is showing up in U.S. honey, decades after bomb tests (www.science.org)
    314 points by ColinWright over 4 years | 213 comments
28. Satellites reveal widespread decline in global lake water storage (www.science.org)
    306 points by _Microft over 3 years | 179 comments
29. Researchers to retract landmark Alzheimer's paper containing doctored images (www.science.org)
    300 points by instagraham over 2 years | 149 comments
30. Star neuroscientist may have manipulated data to support a major stroke trial (www.science.org)
    300 points by EndXA almost 3 years | 371 comments
31. Things I Won't Work With: Azidoazide Azides, More or Less (2013) (www.science.org)
    297 points by ColinWright about 4 years | 86 comments
32. Compact holographic sound fields enable rapid one-step assembly of matter in 3D (www.science.org)
    288 points by taubek over 3 years | 72 comments
33. Chemical emitted by babies could make men more docile, women more aggressive (www.science.org)
    281 points by chriskanan almost 5 years | 129 comments
34. Beetle grows ‘termite’ on back to steal food (www.science.org)
    279 points by sohkamyung about 3 years | 180 comments
35. India defuses its population bomb: fertility falls to two children per woman (www.science.org)
    277 points by rustoo almost 5 years | 400 comments
36. Perfluorocubane is (as you would expect) weird (www.science.org)
    269 points by kens about 4 years | 97 comments
37. White House requires public access to all U.S.-funded research papers by 2025 (www.science.org)
    259 points by rntn about 4 years | 2 comments
38. Things I Won't Work With: Dioxygen Difluoride (2010) (www.science.org)
    258 points by jmcgough over 4 years | 75 comments
39. Faked Beta-Amyloid Data. What Does It Mean? (www.science.org)
    250 points by hprotagonist about 4 years | 168 comments
40. Fishing for oil and meat drives defaunation of deepwater sharks and rays (www.science.org)
    248 points by etiam over 2 years | 116 comments
41. Major shake-up coming for Fermilab, the troubled U.S. particle physics center (www.science.org)
    247 points by dyslexit over 3 years | 144 comments
42. Cancer in the Cold (www.science.org)
    247 points by _Microft about 4 years | 99 comments
43. One centimeter long bacterium discovered (www.science.org)
    243 points by deathgripsss about 4 years | 78 comments
44. Multifault earthquake threat for Seattle region revealed by mass tree mortality (www.science.org)
    242 points by bookofjoe almost 3 years | 142 comments
45. A protein that disrupts cells’ energy centers may be a culprit in CFS/ME (www.science.org)
    241 points by kens about 3 years | 188 comments
46. Star botanist likely made up data about nutritional supplements, new probe finds (www.science.org)
    241 points by jyunwai over 2 years | 91 comments
47. Scientific journal publishers and editors say they are being offered bribes (www.science.org)
    240 points by rossdavidh over 2 years | 134 comments
48. Researchers successfully potty-train cows (www.science.org)
    240 points by cheese_goddess about 5 years | 337 comments
49. Revamped German stellarator should run longer, hotter and compete with tokamaks (www.science.org)
    239 points by nabla9 about 4 years | 151 comments
50. Speakers of different languages remember visual scenes differently (www.science.org)
    237 points by wmlive about 3 years | 104 comments
51. Making steel without emitting CO2 (www.science.org)
    236 points by ttfkam over 2 years | 117 comments
52. Brazilian frog might be the first pollinating amphibian known to science (www.science.org)
    233 points by raybb over 3 years | 65 comments
53. The Uselessness of Phenylephrine (2022) (www.science.org)
    233 points by ctoth about 3 years | 335 comments
54. New U.S. immigration rules spur more visa approvals for STEM workers (www.science.org)
    224 points by Metacelsus over 2 years | 394 comments
55. How to run 50% faster without external energy (2020) (www.science.org)
    222 points by beefman almost 3 years | 192 comments
56. As professors struggle to recruit postdocs, calls for change in academia (www.science.org)
    221 points by pseudolus over 4 years | 313 comments
57. How did the settlers of the Canary Islands survive a millennium of isolation? (www.science.org)
    217 points by gmays over 2 years | 172 comments
58. Simple mix of soap and solvent could help destroy ‘forever chemicals’ (www.science.org)
    213 points by ckcheng about 4 years | 233 comments
59. Equality is prevented by the misperception that it harms advantaged groups (www.science.org)
    210 points by geox over 4 years | 404 comments
60. Rare genital defects seen in sons of men taking major diabetes drug (www.science.org)
    209 points by jimmy2020 over 4 years | 231 comments
61. Mammals can breathe through their intestines (2021) (www.science.org)
    209 points by FeaturelessBug over 4 years | 154 comments
62. Trouble with Erythritol (www.science.org)
    208 points by Metacelsus over 3 years | 225 comments
63. Potato farmers conquer a devastating worm with paper made from bananas (www.science.org)
    208 points by rbanffy over 4 years | 35 comments
64. I thought I wanted to be a professor, then I served on a hiring committee (2021) (www.science.org)
    207 points by ykonstant about 3 years | 184 comments
65. Brain implant lets man with complete paralysis spell out thoughts (www.science.org)
    206 points by andrewgioia over 4 years | 60 comments
66. Citation cartels help mathematicians-and their universities-climb the rankings (www.science.org)
    204 points by pseudolus over 2 years | 165 comments
67. Why do dogs tilt their heads? New study offers clues (www.science.org)
    196 points by sohkamyung almost 5 years | 112 comments
68. These are real compounds (www.science.org)
    196 points by _Microft over 4 years | 26 comments
69. More than half of high-impact cancer lab studies could not be replicated (www.science.org)
    194 points by kevin_hu almost 5 years | 110 comments
70. ‘Voyager on steroids.’ Mission would probe region beyond our Solar System (www.science.org)
    193 points by sohkamyung about 4 years | 72 comments
71. AI unmasks anonymous chess players, posing privacy risks (www.science.org)
    192 points by O__________O almost 4 years | 110 comments
72. Biologist decided to disavow his own study (www.science.org)
    192 points by colinprince over 4 years | 76 comments
73. Federal judge overrules NIH veterinarians about lab chimp retirement (www.science.org)
    191 points by pseudolus over 3 years | 55 comments
74. Fake scientific papers are alarmingly common (www.science.org)
    191 points by tyjen over 3 years | 99 comments
75. Earth beyond six of nine planetary boundaries (www.science.org)
    191 points by geox about 3 years | 175 comments
76. ‘Mind-boggling’ sea creature identified as digenean trematode (www.science.org)
    191 points by austinallegro almost 3 years | 38 comments
77. What's an obelisk, anyway? (www.science.org)
    190 points by herodotus over 2 years | 45 comments
78. The Arctic Is Warming Four Times Faster Than the Rest of the World (www.science.org)
    190 points by infodocket almost 5 years | 213 comments
79. Wonderful Progress Against Severe Lupus (www.science.org)
    189 points by 6177c40f over 3 years | 31 comments
80. Whole-body magnetic resonance imaging at 0.05 Tesla (www.science.org)
    187 points by Jimega36 over 2 years | 155 comments
81. Human gene linked to bigger brains was born from seemingly useless DNA (www.science.org)
    183 points by rolph over 3 years | 180 comments
82. U.K. rejoins Horizon Europe research funding scheme (www.science.org)
    182 points by tokai almost 3 years | 242 comments
83. Not-such-better-living through chemistry (www.science.org)
    180 points by Metacelsus over 3 years | 226 comments
84. French moratorium on prion studies after two cases of fatal brain disease (2021) (www.science.org)
    179 points by tomrod over 4 years | 186 comments
85. A vaccine for pancreatic cancer treatment? (www.science.org)
    178 points by dcminter over 3 years | 144 comments
86. Israel’s Covid-19 boosters are preventing infections, new studies suggest (www.science.org)
    175 points by hheikinh about 5 years | 329 comments
87. Good news against dengue (www.science.org)
    172 points by jseliger over 2 years | 66 comments
88. The ‘psychobiome': the gut bacteria that may alter how you think, feel, act (www.science.org)
    172 points by vitabenes over 4 years | 96 comments
89. The long, slow process of carcinogenesis (www.science.org)
    172 points by _Microft over 4 years | 48 comments
90. Universal flu vaccine against all known subtypes takes promising first steps (www.science.org)
    169 points by Brajeshwar over 3 years | 267 comments
91. Why do placebos work? Scientists identify key brain pathway (www.science.org)
    169 points by pseudolus almost 5 years | 81 comments
92. Sand won’t save you this time (2008) (www.science.org)
    168 points by Tomte almost 5 years | 30 comments
93. The Dogs of Chernobyl (www.science.org)
    166 points by zomg over 3 years | 49 comments
94. Hollywood movie aside, just how good a physicist was Oppenheimer? (www.science.org)
    166 points by andrewl about 3 years | 455 comments
95. Balloon detects first signs of a ‘sound tunnel’ in the sky (www.science.org)
    166 points by amichail over 4 years | 28 comments
96. Mars rover detects carbon signature that may hint at past life source (www.science.org)
    165 points by jnord over 4 years | 89 comments
97. Things I Won't Work With: Thioacetone (2009) (www.science.org)
    164 points by chris_overseas over 3 years | 75 comments
98. What are farm animals thinking? (www.science.org)
    163 points by mooreds over 2 years | 205 comments
99. Why 536 was 'the worst year to be alive' (2018) (www.science.org)
    160 points by mvexel over 3 years | 113 comments
100. Cheaper microscope could bring protein mapping technique to the masses (www.science.org)
     160 points by digital55 almost 3 years | 46 comments