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#Science #Technology • Is Reproducibility Really Central to Science? - In a new paper in the Journal of Experimental & Theoretical Artificial Intelligence, Chris Drummond takes aim at the 'reproducibility movement' which has lately risen to prominence... ow.ly/LVWY50g0MQq

#Science #Technology • Roosters Have Special Ears So They Don't Crow Themselves To Deaf - If you've spent any time around roosters, you know that their "morning" crowing can be... loud. That distinctive cock-a-doodle-doo is piercing: if you happen to ... ow.ly/JjBj50fZ9u7

#Science #Technology • Curiously aligned cloud formations stream across the Atlantic as Arctic air blows across warm ocean waters - Baby, it's cold outside! If you live pretty much anywhere in Canada, or in the United States east of the Rockies, that ... ow.ly/twAV50fYv71

#Science #Technology • 'Predator' Vision Drones Get AI to Spot Poachers - Poachers illegally hunting elephants and rhinoceroses under the supposed cover of darkness may soon find themselves being tracked by "Predator" vision drones armed with artifici... ow.ly/1vdE50fXXF9

#Science #Technology • Twelve Months, Eight Arms, Three Butts - It's the end of the year and we're still swimming! So Inkfish is taking a moment to reflect on 2017 and enumerate some noteworthy posts. Don't worry—it won't take long, since octopuses ca... ow.ly/T4Sc50fXx1g

#Science #Technology • Could a Lunar Fuel Depot Jump-Start Human Exploration of Deep Space? - In my previous post I started a conversation with spaceflight entrepreneur Charles Miller, who shared his insights about how NASA's human spaceflight program... ow.ly/FNgP50fXx1h

#Science #Technology • Right before Christmas, a gargantuan black fissure opened on the Sun. It was shaped like a question mark. - It doesn't really take much imagination to see the dark question mark forming and dissipating across most of the Sun's s... ow.ly/bwIY50fWU1i

#Science #Technology • This Is Your Brain on Mixed Martial Arts - Michael Bisping has fought professionally in mixed martial arts since 2004. Last year, the journeyman won his first title. He knocked out Luke Rockhold in the first round to win the mid... ow.ly/ItCj50fWxI7

#Science #Technology • The Banana As We Know It Is Dying...Again - The bananas your grandparents ate were different than the ones you eat today. And the bananas your grandchildren know will probably be entirely different as well. For the moment, we ar... ow.ly/pVIZ50fVFCC

#Science #Technology • Solar Eclipses Make Waves in the Atmosphere - When the solar eclipse swept across the continental U.S. in August, it carved a subtle, but noticeable path through our atmosphere. For the first time, researchers confirmed that tha... ow.ly/ZsvU50fVFCD

#Science #Technology • Are You a Directionally Biased Kisser? - Your brain is an organ of two halves – the left side and the right side. And there are many brain functions, such as language skills or which hand you write with, which are organized most... ow.ly/Coa750fVsMB

#Science #Technology • Donny the Drone Desires World Domination...For Its Own Good - If you give a drone a voice, it might as well be Guy Pearce's. In the sci-fi short film "Donny The Drone," a sentient drone receives World Time magazine's Person of t... ow.ly/dFTI50fVsMA

#Science #Technology • Dozens—Perhaps Even Hundreds—of Lionfish Likely Launched the Atlantic Invasion - In 1992, Hurricane Andrew ripped it's way across the southern US. Southern Florida, where Andrew made landfall, was one of the hardest hit areas. I... ow.ly/L13y50fVmEX

#Science #Technology • Back to the Moon for Real: A Conversation with Private-Spaceflight Evangelist Charles Miller - NASA's human spaceflight program has been in a state of uncertainty pretty much from the moment the Apollo 17 crew left the surface o... ow.ly/j7oA50fSRAv

#Science #Technology • Your Weekly Attenborough: Attenborougharion rubicundus - If you're like me, your family's Christmas tree is dripping with poorly-made ornaments you and your siblings slapped together in kindergarten. Seriously, one is just a pic... ow.ly/rl2p50fRsHQ

#Science #Technology • Dead Squid Moms Are a Gift to the Ocean Floor - Animals living on the ocean floor, where it's too dark for anything to grow, have to wait for food to fall on them. Mostly this means they eat "marine snow," a steady drift of tiny... ow.ly/wIxX50fRmvc

#Science #Technology • A Day Isn’t Actually 24 Hours And Other Weird Solstice Facts - Those of us brave souls who inhabit America’s northern climes know that it’s not the cold that brings on the winter blues. You go to work and it's dark. You leave wo... ow.ly/qMig50fQp6N

#Science #Technology • Under Review: A Male Contraceptive Topical Gel - A new male contraceptive is set to begin testing next year. Beginning in April, about 420 men will begin rubbing a hormonal gel onto their shoulders every morning, with the goal o... ow.ly/kOpi50fQp6M

#Science #Technology • Even Near Pulsars, Life May Find a Way - Exoplanets have dominated astronomy news so much in recent years, some people are getting sick of them. It’s funny to think that their existence has only been confirmed for 25 years. Befo... ow.ly/DTuV50fQj3x

#Science #Technology • Life in the Universe Is Common, Oldest Fossils on Earth Suggest - In a study published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, scientists confirmed that the oldest fossils ever discovered — found in a n... ow.ly/nFuG50fQj3w