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Researchers train living rat neurons to perform real-time AI computations — experiments could pave the way for new brain-machine interfaces (tomshardware.com)

2026-04-05 | by Luke James | get Neural Interface Development Kit → | tags: tohoku university, microelectrode arrays, brain-machine interfaces

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Common drug tests lead to tens of thousands wrongful arrests a year (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-05 | by Holly Yan | tags: colorimetric drug tests, colorado, university of pennsylvania

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The threat is comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-05 | get Smartphone Screen Cleaning Kit → | tags: astrophysics, galaxy clustering, data analysis

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AI Forces College Professor to Get Typewriters for Entire Class (futurism.com)

2026-04-04 | by Frank Landymore | get Mechanical Typewriter Set → | tags: typewriters, cornell university, german language

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Researchers 3D print robot the size of a single-cell organism — devices move and navigate even without a ‘brain,’ uses their shape and the environment to get going (tomshardware.com)

2026-04-04 | by Jowi Morales | get 3D Printed Micro-Robot Kit → | tags: microrobots, 3d printing, leiden university

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Ice Age dice show early Native Americans may have understood probability (arstechnica.com)

2026-04-03 | get Native American Probability Dice → | tags: native american dice, maya ballgames, probability

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Scientists Have Made a French Fry Breakthrough (wired.com)

2026-04-03 | by Marta Musso | get French Fry Maker Kit → | tags: university of illinois, food science, microwave heating

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"Cognitive surrender" leads AI users to abandon logical thinking, research finds (arstechnica.com)

2026-04-03 | get AI Cognitive Bias Book → | tags: large language models, ai decision-making, cognitive surrender

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New research suggests the microplastics health risk may not be as bad as we thought (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-04-03 | get Microplastics Health Awareness Kit → | tags: microplastics, university of michigan, health risk

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Evolution of Ransomware: Multi-Extortion Ransomware Attacks (bleepingcomputer.com)

2026-04-03 | get Ransomware Recovery Kit → | tags: ransomware, epic, university of mississippi

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Male octopuses guided through mating by female hormones (arstechnica.com)

2026-04-02 | get Octopus Mating Guide Book → | tags: octopus, harvard university, hectocotylus

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George Goble has died (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-02 | tags: george goble, obituary, engineering

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New fossil deposits show complex animal groups predating the Cambrian (arstechnica.com)

2026-04-02 | get Fossil Hunting Kit → | tags: fossil deposits, cambrian period, ediacaran

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Snow melt-off in American west stuns scientists (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-02 | by Gabrielle Canon | get Waterproof Hiking Boots → | tags: snowpack, colorado state university, andy reising

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Delivery Robot Companies in Trouble as Bot Become Targets for Vandalism (futurism.com)

2026-04-02 | by Joe Wilkins | get Delivery Robot Security Kit → | tags: kiwibot, starship technologies, delivery robots

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Chinese University Announces 30-Story “Artificial Island” for Marine Research Purposes (futurism.com)

2026-04-02 | by Joe Wilkins | get Marine Research Dock → | tags: deep-sea research platform, open-sea floating island, shanghai jiao tong university

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Why some cancer-fighting immune cells lose their strength inside tumours (feeds.nature.com)

2026-04-02 | by Chen | get T-cell Activation Booster → | tags: dendritic cells, stanford university, cancer immunotherapy

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A new way to measure poverty shows the US falling behind Europe (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-01 | by Servet Yanatma | get Poverty Measurement Toolkit → | tags: oxford university, gross domestic product, purchasing power parity

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Mass robotaxi malfunction halts traffic in Chinese city (feeds.bbci.co.uk)

2026-04-01 | get Autonomous Vehicle Safety Kit → | tags: robotaxi, chinese city, driverless tech

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Half of social-science studies fail replication test in years-long project (feeds.nature.com)

2026-04-01 | by Jones | get Reproducibility in Science Book → | tags: score project, open science, social sciences

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Hallucinated citations are polluting the scientific literature. What can be done? (feeds.nature.com)

2026-04-01 | by Naddaf | get Retraction Watch Journal Subscription → | tags: google scholar, large language models, hallucinated citations

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Struggling to focus on research when the world is ‘on fire’? Some ways to cope (feeds.nature.com)

2026-04-01 | by Kwon | get Noise Cancelling Headphones → | tags: yale university, global warming, neuroresearch

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Deconstruction of a spino-brain–spinal cord circuit that drives chronic pain (feeds.nature.com)

2026-04-01 | by Wang | get Neuroscience Research Kit → | tags: spino-brain circuit, chronic pain, oprm1cre

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Flexible ensheathment of axons enables myelination of complex CNS networks (feeds.nature.com)

2026-04-01 | by Call | get Neuroanatomy Brain Model → | tags: zebrafish, myelination, cns networks

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The 1000 Chinese Pangenome empowers medical and population genetics (feeds.nature.com)

2026-04-01 | by Wang | get Chinese Pangenome Kit → | tags: wenzhou medical university, pacbio hi-fi, illumina sequencing

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Ordinary Lab Gloves May Have Skewed Microplastic Data (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-31 | by Jake Currie | get Disposable Nitrile Gloves → | tags: microplastics, nitrile gloves, spectroscopy

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Bourbon waste could provide next-gen supercapacitor components (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-31 | by Edd Gent | get Supercapacitor Energy Storage Kit → | tags: bourbon, kentucky, supercapacitors

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Ask HN: Academic study on AI's impact on software development – want to join? (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-31 | get AI Developer Assistant Tool → | tags: software development, nyu, zoom

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Samsung’s new app claims to alleviate motion sickness using sound (theverge.com)

2026-03-31 | by Andrew Liszewski | get Samsung Galaxy Buds Pro → | tags: samsung, hearapy, galaxy buds 4 pro

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What's the best cabin layout for aircraft evacuation? (arstechnica.com)

2026-03-31 | get Aircraft Evacuation Safety Kit → | tags: faa, aircraft evacuation, steffen method