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In the age of false information, we all need a good BS detector. Here’s how to sort facts from harmful fiction | Tony Haymet

08 October at 00:41 AM, via The Guardian

Our brains are wired to believe new information, especially if it aligns with our views. But mistruths can have serious consequences

Ernest Hemingway famously said that every good writer needs a built-in BS detector. But in 2025 we all need one. High levels of scientific misinformation are threatening the wellbeing of families and our society, and the problem is worsening at an alarming...

Tesla Reveals Cheaper Versions of Model Y and Model 3

07 October at 20:57 PM, via New York Times

Elon Musk’s electric car company said the new versions would start at around $37,000 and $40,000, prices that bring its cars closer to comparable gasoline vehicles.

Edgar Neufeld obituary

07 October at 18:56 PM, via The Guardian

My father, Edgar Neufeld, who has died aged 92, was a Jewish refugee from the Nazis who became a scientist and senior IBM executive. He then dedicated himself to charitable work in education, for which he was made an OBE in 2003.

After the family escaped from Vienna in 1938, Edgar grew up with his parents, Martha (nee Fuchs) and Sigi Neufeld, and his sister, Inge, in Manchester in a block of...

Women carry a higher genetic risk of depression, new study says

07 October at 16:00 PM, via The Guardian

Researchers in Australia find 16 genetic variants linked to depression in women but only eight in men

Women carry a higher genetic risk of depression, a new study has found.

Claiming to be the largest genetic study to date on sex differences in major depression, the research published Wednesday in Nature Communications has found 16 genetic variants linked to depression in women and eight in...

Scientist learns he has won Nobel prize while on digital detox in US mountains

07 October at 14:42 PM, via The Guardian

Fred Ramsdell’s wife switched on her phone and screamed – it was full of messages congratulating her husband

Out on a digital detox in the western US backcountry, scientist Fred Ramsdell was startled when his wife let out a yell. He feared she had spotted a grizzly bear, only to discover a far better surprise – he had won the Nobel prize in medicine.

The Nobel committee had been unable to reach...

Nobel prize in physics awarded to three scientists for work on quantum mechanics

07 October at 12:09 PM, via The Guardian

Trio led experiments demonstrating that bizarre properties of quantum world can translate into measurable effects in the everyday

The Nobel prize in physics 2025 has been awarded to British, French and American scientists for their work on quantum mechanics.

John Clarke, a British physicist based at the University of California at Berkeley, Michel Devoret, a French physicist based at Yale...

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