Can dogs really sense danger?
Research shows what canines really can sense — and how social media and human projection fuel belief in their supernatural abilities....
Research shows what canines really can sense — and how social media and human projection fuel belief in their supernatural abilities....
Article URL: https://ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/eth-news/news/2025/11/electrolysis-can-solve-one-of-our-biggest-contamination-problems.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46436127 ...
Researchers have developed a system that brings multiple objects at different distances into sharp focus. | Image: The Verge via Yingsi Qin, Aswin C. Sankaranarayanan, Matthew O’Toole | Carnegie Mello...
Article URL: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/01/260107225516.htm Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46557233 Points: 16 # Comments: 4...
Article URL: https://case.edu/news/new-study-shows-alzheimers-disease-can-be-reversed-achieve-full-neurological-recovery-not-just-prevented-or-slowed-animal-models Comments URL: https://news.ycombinat...
A new artificial intelligence model in the United States, SleepFM, has found that patterns in human slumber can be used to predict a person's risk for about 130 diseases, including dementia and certai...
Why do people often adopt and develop beliefs that lack strong supporting evidence?...
Article URL: https://engineering.cmu.edu/news-events/news/2025/12/19-perfect-shot.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46369808 Points: 59 # Comments: 21...
A solar conjunction occurs as Venus' orbit carries it into alignment with the sun and Earth....
The night sky is the Christmas gift that just keeps giving....
Chinese researchers have proposed a simple yet powerful theory to explain one of physics’ oldest puzzles: why time only moves forward and why travelling to the past remains impossible. Physicist Cai Q...
Pea-size clusters of human cells called brain organoids inspire both hope and fear. Experts are debating how scientists can responsibly use these bits of gray matter. (Image credit: Institut Pasteur-S...
Nature, Published online: 31 December 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09864-5 Fermionic currents of opposing chirality can be spatially filtered without the need for a magnetic field using the quantum ge...
https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/11/industry_insiders_see... https://www.anthropic.com/research/small-samples-poison A small number of samples can poison LLMs of any size - https://news.ycombinator...
We have selected seven stories from this week’s news across Hong Kong, mainland China, the wider Asia region and beyond that resonated with our readers and shed light on topical issues. If you would l...
Getty Images; Tyler Le/BI Five years ago, Tim Cannon, a cancer doctor in Virginia, saw that his colon cancer patients were getting younger and their cancer was more aggressive. He had just diagnosed t...
Rippling's CPO said he prefers to understaff than overstaff all his projects. Illustration by Thomas Fuller/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Rippling's product chief Matt MacInnis says he deli...
I (17y/o) have been developing a rocket launch simulation that allows the user to explore what it's like launching a rocket from earth and putting it into orbit. This idea originally started as an edu...
Hi HN, I’m a solo dev building a clinical search engine to help my wife (a resident physician) and her colleagues. The Problem: Current tools (UpToDate/OpenEvidence) are expensive, slow, or increasing...
I made a web game inspired by Geoguessr and Wordle, where you get shown a 3D model of a random human protein each day, and you have to triangulate its gene name using similarity clues. My background i...