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- Researcher at center of epic fraud remains an enigma to those who exposed him http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/08/researcher-center-epic-fraud-remains-enigma-those-who-exposed-him 83 comments
- Research Software Engineer at Epic https://discourse.haskell.org/t/research-software-engineer-at-epic/11202 14 comments haskell
- Invasive plant research as an epic comic https://www.researchgate.net/publication/315744259_graphic_novella_plant_invasion_alters_canopy_ecohydrology 4 comments science
- California has underestimated the epic potential of future flooding, research shows https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2024-06-02/study-suggests-epic-potential-for-california-flooding 4 comments environment
- Punjab government to set up research centre on Hindu epics; Channi says will do PhD on Mahabharata https://www.deccanherald.com/national/north-and-central/punjab-government-to-set-up-research-centre-on-hindu-epics-channi-says-will-do-phd-on-mahabharata-1055504.html 17 comments india
- On researching some wacky Cyclomatic Complexity scores in my code, I came across an epic flame-war over the treatment of ternary operators. 18 months and counting. https://github.com/pdepend/pdepend/issues/158 104 comments programming
- Earth barreling toward 'Hothouse' state not seen in 50 million years, epic new climate record shows | The transition from icehouse to hothouse won't take millions of years, researchers said — it will take hundreds https://www.livescience.com/oldest-climate-record-ever-cenozoic-era.html 61 comments worldnews
- The Vikings are alive & well & living in the North West of England! - That’s the revelation in an epic DNA research project into the genetic footprint of the Scandinavian invaders http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-01-dna-viking-north-west.html 4 comments history
- Over 450 million years ago, plants began the epic transition from water to dry land. New research reveals insights into the genetic blueprints of hornworts, uncovering fascinating details about plant evolution and the early days of life on land. https://btiscience.org/explore-bti/news/post/hornwort-genomes-provide-clues-on-how-plants-conquered-the-land/ 5 comments science
- Binary star system with strange, unexplainable dimming pattern found by researchers working with NASA. Named EPIC 249706694, it is defying all logic with a totally random transit periodicity. The transits "could just as well have been produced by a random number generator," their new paper states. https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.11268 24 comments space
- In a small study of patients referred to the Johns Hopkins Early Psychosis Intervention Clinic (EPIC), Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers report that about half the people referred to the clinic with a schizophrenia diagnosis didn't actually have schizophrenia. https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-04/jhm-sso041819.php 18 comments science
- Researchers discover 'epic' new Burgess Shale site in Canada's Kootenay National Park: Massive deposit may be world's most important animal fossil discovery in decades http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2014-02/uot-rd021014.php 52 comments science