- The world's sleeping patterns have been revealed by scientists analysing data collected from an app. http://www.bbc.com/news/health-36226874 13 comments science
- Scientists break world record for data transfer speeds http://tipsycritic.com/scientists-break-world-record-for-data-transfer-speeds/ 13 comments science
- Facebook ignored blatant political manipulation around the world, claims former data scientist https://www.theverge.com/2020/9/14/21436852/facebook-data-scientist-memo-political-manipulation 13 comments worldnews
- Facebook ignored blatant political manipulation around the world, claims former data scientist https://www.theverge.com/2020/9/14/21436852/facebook-data-scientist-memo-political-manipulation 10 comments politics
- Data from atomic bomb tests conducted during the Cold War have helped scientists accurately age whale sharks, the world's biggest fish. https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-52155008 5 comments worldnews
- How does a company get the world’s smartest data scientists to moonlight for free? By turning problems into contests http://qz.com/5176/how-does-a-company-get-the-worlds-smartest-data-scientists-to-moonlight-for-free-by-turning-its-most-vexing-problems-into-contests/ 23 comments math
- A team of scientists have produced an unusual bent lanthanide complex, which will have numerous real-world applications that lanthanides are currently employed, and unlock future technologies such as the storage of magnetic data on individual molecules. https://www.rsc.org/news-events/journals-highlights/2019/oct/lanthanide-complex/ 6 comments science
- How World War II scientists invented a data-driven approach to fighting fascism http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/06/how-world-war-ii-scientists-invented-a-data-driven-approach-to-fighting-fascism/ 3 comments science
- Data from centuries-old sea creatures suggest the world has overshot a climate limit. Some scientists say not so fast https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/05/climate/sponges-climate-limit-study/index.html 2 comments climate
- Scientists say all the world’s data can fit on a DNA hard drive the size of a teaspoon http://qz.com/345640/scientists-say-all-the-worlds-data-can-fit-on-a-dna-hard-drive-the-size-of-a-teaspoon/?utm_source=parbf 17 comments science
- Scientists say all the world’s data can fit on a DNA hard drive the size of a teaspoon http://qz.com/345640 11 comments technology
- Days after fire destroyed irreplaceable specimens at Brazil’s National Museum, scientists quantified the fossils that sit in natural history collections around the world, estimating that only 3 to 4 percent of these “dark data” are currently accounted for in published scientific literature. https://www.calacademy.org/press/releases/scientists-quantify-the-vast-and-valuable-finds-stored-on-museum-shelves 3 comments science
- Scientists say all the world's data (several zettabytes) can fit on a DNA hard drive the size of a teaspoon http://qz.com/345640/scientists-say-all-the-worlds-data-can-fit-on-a-dna-hard-drive-the-size-of-a-teaspoon/ 13 comments technology
- Respected scientist Conrad Gessner has raised the alarm about the effects of information overload. He warns the modern world overwhelms people with "confusing and harmful" data. He has never once used e-mail and is completely ignorant about computers... because he died in 1565. http://www.slate.com/toolbar.aspx?action=print&id=2244198 7 comments technology
- The most boring person in the world works in data analytics, likes watching TV, and lives in a town, scientists say https://www.businessinsider.com/boring-jobs-hobbies-profession-personal-traits-scientists-study-2022-3?amp%3BIR=T&r=US 163 comments datascience
- Using data from 73 sites around the world, scientists have been able to reconstruct Earth's temperature history back to the end of the last Ice Age. http://ceoas.oregonstate.edu/features/reconstructed/ 14 comments science
- Fiber optic cables transport petabytes of data every second around the world — scientists say they could also save lives by detecting tsunamis early https://www.techradar.com/pro/fiber-optic-cables-transport-petabytes-of-data-every-second-around-the-world-scientists-say-they-could-also-save-lives-by-detecting-tsunamis-early 2 comments environment
- Nearly a quarter of the world’s population experienced a record hot year in 2021, as the climate crisis continues to unleash escalating temperatures around the globe, according to new data from leading US climate scientists. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jan/13/hot-year-temperatures-climate-crisis-2021 4 comments environment
- 30 years of data from scientists around the world shows Arctic animals are changing their behaviors because of climate change, new data published today in Science shows. Depressing story. Beautiful animal photos. https://news.osu.edu/new-database-shows-arctic-animals-changing-behavior-in-face-of-climate-change/ 5 comments science
- Scientists have compiled a comprehensive, consistent map of pollution across the globe. Their data spans 1998-2018, providing a current picture of the state of the world’s air quality that reveals some surprises, both for better and for worse. https://www.technologynetworks.com/analysis/news/global-pollution-analyses-hold-some-surprises-336655 13 comments science
- Data Scientists Create World’s First Therapeutic Venom Database: Open-Source Library Describes Nearly 43,000 Effects on the Human Body http://newsroom.cumc.columbia.edu/blog/2015/11/25/data-scientists-create-worlds-first-therapeutic-venom-database/ 3 comments science
- Scientists have built the world's smallest magnetic data storage unit. It uses just twelve atoms per bit, the basic unit of information, and squeezes a whole byte (8 bit) into as few as 96 atoms. http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-01-world-smallest-magnetic-storage.html 50 comments science
- Scientists have found evidence of a four billion year old ancient magnetic field on Mercury, according to new data from NASA's Messenger mission. The discovery means Mercury has the oldest confirmed magnetic field of any terrestrial world in the inner solar system. http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2015/05/08/4231530.htm 78 comments science
- Scientists working on the world’s leading particle collider experiments have joined forces, combined their data and produced the first joint result from Fermilab’s Tevatron and CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC), regarding the mass of the top quark at the Rencontres de Moriond physics conference. http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1113099253/first-joint-result-announced-by-international-team-of-lhc-and-tevatron-scientists-031914/#5re1vuwusjsmytld.99 3 comments science
- The world's first entirely light-based memory chip to store data permanently has been developed by material scientists. The device, which makes use of materials used in CDs and DVDs, could help dramatically improve the speed of modern computing. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/10/151004112856.htm 42 comments science
- 2023 saw record-breaking heat and flooding all over the world. When Gavin Schmidt, director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies saw the data, he was shocked. “My scientist brain is like ... ‘What's going on?’ And then there's the… ‘Oh, sh*t’ part of my brain,” he said. “We predicted this.” https://www.supercluster.com/editorial/nasa-2023-data-points-to-a-scorching-earth 13 comments environment
- 2023 saw record-breaking heat and flooding all over the world. When Gavin Schmidt, director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies saw the data, he was shocked. “My scientist brain is like ... ‘What's going on?’ And then there's the… ‘Oh, sh*t’ part of my brain,” he said. “We predicted this.” https://www.supercluster.com/editorial/nasa-2023-data-points-to-a-scorching-earth 358 comments space
- Winter activities on ice are becoming increasingly dangerous as the world warms, scientists say. When researchers looked at data on drowning accidents in largely frozen lakes or rivers, they saw a "strong correlation" to rising temperatures. https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-54989046 3 comments science
- Scientists have analyzed over 12,000 years of climate data, and found that human-induced warming interrupted and reversed a long-term natural global cooling period. 1,319 data records from samples like lake deposits, marine sediments, were collected from 679 sites around the world. https://newatlas.com/environment/climate-change-reversed-6500-year-global-cooling/ 1618 comments science
- Researchers studying clay balls from Mesopotamia have discovered clues to a lost code that was used for record-keeping about 200 years before writing was invented. The clay balls may represent the world's "very first data storage system," at least the first that scientists know of http://news.discovery.com/history/archaeology/clues-to-prehistoric-code-foundin-mesopotamia-131011.htm 4 comments history
- Cities are getting quieter: birdsong declining across the Western world. Scientists collected bird counts over the past 25 years at various sites across North America and Europe. Data from citizen science monitoring programs across more than 200,000 sites in 22 cities in Europe, the USA, and Canada https://www.zmescience.com/science/birdsong-decline-europe-usa-canada-632736/ 57 comments science
- A new study by the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee could turn the climate change world upside down. Scientists at the university used a math application known as synchronized chaos and applied it to climate data taken over the past 100 years. http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&ct=res&cd=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wisn.com%2Fweather%2F18935841%2Fdetail.html&ei=zkjhsyxnodzhtgfvqfxhcg&usg=afqjcnghxvu2ryzzjo0fsv_cuy234tt1xq&sig2=pq3cy7hqa112hvlcid6jpq 22 comments politics
- Citizen scientists find 10,000 new variable stars: More than 3,100 volunteer citizen scientists parsing data from a network of telescopes around the world this year identified 10,000 new variable stars in the Milky Way, according to a recent paper. https://news.osu.edu/citizen-scientists-find-10000-new-variable-stars/ 2 comments science
- A hydropower station’s dark reservoir can soak up enough solar energy to cancel its climate benefit. Scientists analysed satellite data at 724 hydropower stations around the world and found that the reservoirs were darker than the surrounding landscape and thus absorbed more solar energy. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00552-8 7 comments science
- Whistleblower Says Facebook Ignored Global Political Manipulation: A 6,600-word internal memo from a fired Facebook data scientist details how the social network knew leaders of countries around the world were using their site to manipulate voters — and failed to act. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/facebook-ignore-political-manipulation-whistleblower-memo 19 comments worldnews
- A Whistleblower Says Facebook Ignored Global Political Manipulation - A 6,600-word internal memo from a fired Facebook data scientist details how the social network knew leaders of countries around the world were using their site to manipulate voters — and failed to act. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/facebook-ignore-political-manipulation-whistleblower-memo 5 comments technology
- UK scientists have succeeded in cutting a 2km hole through the West Antarctic Ice Sheet to its base. The researchers hope the project's data can help them work out how quickly the White Continent might lose its ice in a warming world. https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-46978496 7 comments worldnews
- BGI, the world's largest genomics organization, announced today that a group of scientists and researchers successfully demonstrated genomic data transfer at a sustained rate of almost 10 Gigabits per second (Gbps) over a new link connecting US and China research and education networks. http://www.sciencecodex.com/bgi_demonstrated_genomic_data_transfer_at_nearly_10_gigabits_per_second_between_us_and_china-94230 3 comments science
- Forests with a large variety of species are more productive and stable under stress than monocultures: forestry scientists have confirmed this with data from the world’s oldest field trial on the diversity of tropical tree species. The trial has been running for almost two decades. https://www.pr.uni-freiburg.de/pm-en/press-releases-2019/diversity-increases-ecosystem-stability 8 comments science
- Using data from NASA's Kepler space telescope, citizen scientists have discovered a planet roughly twice the size of Earth located within its star's habitable zone. The new world, known as K2-288Bb, could be rocky or could be a gas-rich planet similar to Neptune. Its size is rare among exoplanets. https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=7313 5 comments space