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[D] Machine Learning Deserves Better Than This | In the Pipeline https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2021/06/02/machine-learning-deserves-better-than-this 41 comments 5/6/2021 machinelearning

A scientific expert analysis helps explain why the Kodak deal reeks of corruption https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2020/08/03/that-kodak-deal 9 comments 12/8/2020 politics

Magnetic stir bars can cause phantom results during organic and catalytic reactions as a consequence of microscale damage and contamination. https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2019/03/26/stirring-bar-contamination 5 comments 27/3/2019 science

"Astonishing" breakthrough in structure determination of small-molecules last night. ChemRxiv traffic spiked by 100% as two labs posted similar results showing 1 angstrom resolution structures from powder off the shelf. Big day for cryoEM and microED. http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2018/10/18/small-molecule-structures-a-new-world 6 comments 18/10/2018 science

A computer program has been used to autonomously design synthetic pathways for eight commercially and medicinally relevant molecules that previously suffered from troublesome syntheses. http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2018/03/06/retrosynthesis-here-it-comes 6 comments 7/3/2018 science

Calcium phosphate nanoparticles inhaled from air pollution localize to the heart. Researcher hijack this process and use it to deliver drugs specifically to the heart. Doing so improves heart failure in animal models, suggesting that this minimally invasive method could translate to humans. http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2018/01/26/inhaled-nanoparticles-good-ones-that-is 5 comments 27/1/2018 science

Why Science Needs Applied Philosophy http://blogs.sciencemag.org/sciencecareers/2012/02/why-science-nee.html 136 comments 16/10/2017 philosophy

Expensive Shams Are the Way to Go, Apparently: The nocebo effect mirrors the placebo effect, complicating drug trials. http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2017/10/06/expensive-shams-are-the-way-to-go-apparently 10 comments 6/10/2017 science

A heroin vaccine nears human trials. Researchers hope the antibodies elicited by the vaccine an take up the heroin and prevent it from reaching the reward centers in the brain. http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2017/06/26/a-heroin-vaccine 7 comments 27/6/2017 science

Nanoparticles don't really improve delivery to tumors at all, only 0.7% of systemic nanoparticle dose actually reaches a tumor, the 'EPR effect' is a leap, and there is an enormous problem of nanoparticle uptake by macrophages according to a new Nature Materials review. http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2016/05/05/nanoparticles-mix-it-up-with-reality 9 comments 5/5/2016 science

Things I Won’t Work With: Dioxygen Difluoride http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2010/02/23/things_i_wont_work_with_dioxygen_difluoride 18 comments 14/3/2016 science

Scientists working in West Africa have discovered that tramadol is not naturally derived by plants as previously thought. It is absorbed by the plant from petroleum contaminated soil. http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2015/10/19/the-case-for-non-biogenic-tramadol 18 comments 19/10/2015 science

TIL Dr Subhash Mukhopadhyay, the unsung hero of IVF, pioneered India's first test tube baby in 1978, but was not recognised by the then Indian medical fraternity, and committed suicide three years later due to depression. http://blogs.sciencemag.org/sciencecareers/2011/01/the-award-of-th.html 16 comments 25/7/2013 india

In wake of Google's challenge to China, Hillary Clinton lays down gauntlet on internet freedom http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2010/01/clinton-lays-do.html 5 comments 22/1/2010 technology

Finally a new direction for NASA? Obama Backs New Launcher and Bigger NASA Budget http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/12/exclusiveobama.html 4 comments 18/12/2009 politics

Obama Backs New Launch Vehicle and Bigger NASA Budget http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/12/exclusiveobama.html 48 comments 18/12/2009 science

Researcher at Army Lab Infected With Rabbit Fever http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/12/researcher-at-a.html 5 comments 4/12/2009 science

Embryonic Stem Cell Research Begins, with $20 million from Obama http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/12/obama-spends-be.html 27 comments 2/12/2009 science

"God Machine" Critics to U.N.: Experiment an Affront to Human Rights : CERN protestors want to stop LHC http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/11/critics-of-god.html 3 comments 3/11/2009 science

The US needs fewer science students not more. The best students are rejecting science because the career path sucks. http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/10/study-argues-us.html 3 comments 29/10/2009 reddit.com

Scientists decry "flawed" and "horrifying" nationality tests as UK uses genetic testing to decide who can enter the country. http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/09/border-agencys.html 149 comments 29/9/2009 science

US Army Misplaces 9,200 vials of dangerous pathogens and toxins. http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/06/unlogged-pathog.html 6 comments 21/7/2009 science

Sex: A Solution to Microbial Invasion? http://blogs.sciencemag.org/origins/2009/06/sex-a-solution-to-microbial-in.html 4 comments 26/6/2009 science

Q: What if H5N1 mixes with H1N1? Virologist: If that happens, I will retire immediately and lock myself in the P3 lab http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/05/exclusive-meet.html 485 comments 4/5/2009 reddit.com

We all pray this remains sensitive to antivirals. We all hope that vaccines will be developed. The virus doesn’t grow very well in eggs. http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/04/exclusive-cdc-h.html 4 comments 1/5/2009 worldnews

Virologist accidentally pricks finger with Ebola contaminated needle http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/03/researchers-aro.html 312 comments 25/3/2009 science

Science agencies "made out like bandits" in the $780B federal stimulus bill http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/02/science-headed.html 19 comments 13/2/2009 science

$3 Billion for the National Science Foundation! Finally, some good news in science funding! http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/01/a-3-billion-bon.html 20 comments 18/1/2009 science