Top www.nature.com stories from all time · Hacker News Tops

Hacker News Trending domains | show | ask | classics | links | about

Top www.nature.com stories from all time

all-time year month week

1.

Seven earth-sized planets discovered circling a star 39 light years from Earth (www.nature.com)

2256 points by ngoldbaum 2017-02-22 | 704 comments

2.

Nature makes all articles free to view (www.nature.com)

1102 points by nikhilpandit 2014-12-02 | 128 comments

3.

Largest-ever study of controversial pesticides finds harm to bees (www.nature.com)

729 points by etiam 2017-07-02 | 214 comments

4.

Scientists rise up against statistical significance (www.nature.com)

618 points by bookofjoe 2019-03-20 | 249 comments

5.

Why Jupyter is data scientists’ computational notebook of choice (www.nature.com)

603 points by sohkamyung 2018-10-30 | 299 comments

6.

Germany vs. Elsevier: universities win temporary free journal access (www.nature.com)

603 points by delib 2018-01-05 | 143 comments

7.

Sucking carbon dioxide from air is cheaper than scientists thought (www.nature.com)

531 points by kjeetgill 2018-06-07 | 281 comments

8.

Radical open-access plan could spell end to journal subscriptions (www.nature.com)

509 points by sohkamyung 2018-09-04 | 137 comments

9.

Google reveals secret test of AI bot to beat top Go players (www.nature.com)

495 points by cpeterso 2017-01-04 | 205 comments

10.

Crushed wood is stronger than steel (www.nature.com)

461 points by okket 2018-02-08 | 172 comments

11.

Chemical clears Alzheimer's protein and restores memory in mice (www.nature.com)

452 points by coris47 2015-12-17 | 138 comments

12.

Many junior scientists need to take a hard look at their job prospects (www.nature.com)

430 points by sz4kerto 2017-10-26 | 277 comments

13.

First analysis of ‘pre-registered’ studies shows sharp rise in null findings (www.nature.com)

415 points by danso 2018-10-25 | 162 comments

14.

Time to talk about why so many postgrads have poor mental health (www.nature.com)

414 points by amelius 2018-03-31 | 239 comments

15.

Dandelion Seeds Fly Using ‘Impossible’ Method Never Before Seen in Nature (www.nature.com)

395 points by bcOpus 2018-10-17 | 107 comments

16.

Proof Claimed for Deep Connection between Prime Numbers (www.nature.com)

394 points by shashashasha 2012-09-10 | 89 comments

17.

Dogs demonstrate the existence of an epileptic seizure odour in humans (www.nature.com)

391 points by howard941 2019-03-29 | 148 comments

18.

Ten years left to redesign lithium-ion batteries? (www.nature.com)

390 points by sohkamyung 2018-07-25 | 255 comments

19.

Video filmed at four trillion frames per second captures light in a flash (www.nature.com)

387 points by chriskanan 2019-05-23 | 84 comments

20.

Ketamine lifts rodents' mood only if administered by male researchers (www.nature.com)

378 points by dbcooper 2017-11-21 | 223 comments

21.

Brain scans reveal how LSD affects consciousness (www.nature.com)

376 points by etiam 2016-04-11 | 201 comments

22.

Brain implants allow paralysed monkeys to walk (www.nature.com)

373 points by jaoued 2016-11-11 | 168 comments

23.

Italy’s olive crisis intensifies as deadly tree disease spreads (www.nature.com)

372 points by paganel 2018-11-19 | 195 comments

24.

Dominions of fizz: the carbonated-drinks industry and public health [pdf] (www.nature.com)

364 points by thepoet 2016-04-05 | 212 comments

25.

Confirmation of the topology of the Wendelstein 7-X stellarator’s magnetic field (www.nature.com)

340 points by bcaulfield 2016-12-11 | 113 comments

26.

Different Brain Regions Are Infected with Fungi in Alzheimer’s Disease (www.nature.com)

338 points by wilder 2015-10-16 | 155 comments

27.

We need to talk about systematic fraud (www.nature.com)

325 points by nabla9 2019-02-09 | 132 comments

28.

Massive genetic study shows how humans are evolving (www.nature.com)

323 points by gwern 2017-09-10 | 141 comments

29.

South Korea accepts geothermal plant probably caused destructive quake (www.nature.com)

321 points by bookofjoe 2019-03-22 | 194 comments

30.

The myopia boom (www.nature.com)

311 points by signa11 2015-03-18 | 100 comments

31.

Unexpected evidence of a new particle at LHC (www.nature.com)

310 points by jonbaer 2016-03-09 | 102 comments

32.

Redefine statistical significance (www.nature.com)

303 points by arstin 2017-09-07 | 114 comments

33.

Europe’s open-access drive escalates as university stand-offs spread (www.nature.com)

302 points by edwinksl 2018-05-20 | 79 comments

34.

Gates Foundation research can’t be published in top journals (www.nature.com)

302 points by ZeljkoS 2017-01-15 | 96 comments

35.

Scientists must fight for the facts (www.nature.com)

302 points by jkimmel 2017-01-25 | 144 comments

36.

Nine years of censorship (www.nature.com)

302 points by michaelmachine 2016-05-04 | 125 comments

37.

Kilogram conflict resolved at last (www.nature.com)

294 points by ColinWright 2015-10-14 | 131 comments

38.

Just 11% of 53 cancer research papers were reproducible (www.nature.com)

292 points by vog 2013-05-09 | 179 comments

39.

Terence Tao solves the Erdős Discrepancy Problem (www.nature.com)

285 points by jonbaer 2015-09-26 | 27 comments

40.

Friends Are Genetically Similar (2014) (www.nature.com)

280 points by jacobr 2017-09-11 | 190 comments

41.

Let’s make peer review scientific (www.nature.com)

279 points by return0 2016-07-06 | 141 comments

42.

Four new DNA letters double life’s alphabet (www.nature.com)

277 points by pseudolus 2019-02-22 | 116 comments

43.

Water seems to flow freely on Mars (www.nature.com)

275 points by cryptoz 2013-12-16 | 161 comments

44.

Brain signals translated into speech using AI (www.nature.com)

270 points by Balgair 2019-04-24 | 79 comments

45.

Deadly animal prion disease appears in Europe (www.nature.com)

269 points by etiam 2016-04-20 | 170 comments

46.

US government halts study on health effects of coal mining (www.nature.com)

266 points by gwerbret 2017-09-01 | 92 comments

47.

Has a Hungarian physics lab found a new force of nature? (www.nature.com)

264 points by etiam 2016-05-25 | 87 comments

48.

Fund ideas, not pedigree, to find fresh insight (www.nature.com)

263 points by seagullz 2018-03-07 | 43 comments

49.

Rumours swell over new kind of gravitational-wave sighting (www.nature.com)

258 points by indescions_2017 2017-08-26 | 137 comments

50.

EU copyright reforms draw fire from scientists (www.nature.com)

256 points by touristtam 2018-06-14 | 78 comments

51.

Elimination of HIV-1 Genomes by CRISPR/Cas9 Gene Editing (www.nature.com)

255 points by abetusk 2016-03-29 | 79 comments

52.

LIGO black hole echoes hint at general-relativity breakdown (www.nature.com)

254 points by privong 2016-12-10 | 96 comments

53.

South Korea announces $860M AI fund after AlphaGo 'shock' (www.nature.com)

254 points by 20tibbygt06 2016-03-19 | 95 comments

54.

Should computer science researchers disclose negative social consequences? (www.nature.com)

252 points by rbanffy 2018-08-03 | 270 comments

55.

Simulations back up theory that Universe is a hologram (www.nature.com)

252 points by ForHackernews 2013-12-10 | 134 comments

56.

Jupiter has 10 more moons we didn't know about (www.nature.com)

249 points by oedmarap 2018-07-18 | 105 comments

57.

Young, talented and fed-up: scientists tell their stories (www.nature.com)

248 points by danielmorozoff 2016-10-27 | 177 comments

58.

Entire field of particle physics is to switch to open-access publishing (www.nature.com)

247 points by ananyob 2012-09-25 | 32 comments

59.

Viral hepatitis: A silent epidemic killing more people than HIV, malaria or TB (www.nature.com)

246 points by pseudolus 2018-12-07 | 99 comments

60.

Elusive mitochondrial connection to inflammation uncovered (www.nature.com)

242 points by dtawfik1 2018-08-23 | 53 comments

61.

Russian meteor largest in a century (www.nature.com)

242 points by ananyob 2013-02-15 | 158 comments

62.

Overlearning hyperstabilizes a skill by making processing inhibitory-dominant (www.nature.com)

232 points by alfozan 2017-02-06 | 52 comments

63.

Bitcoin emissions alone could push global warming above 2°C (www.nature.com)

232 points by aburan28 2021-01-17 | 131 comments

64.

Psilocybin for treatment-resistant depression: fMRI-measured brain mechanisms [pdf] (www.nature.com)

227 points by dtawfik1 2017-10-13 | 108 comments

65.

‘Goblin’ world found orbiting at the edges of the Solar System (www.nature.com)

226 points by okket 2018-10-02 | 103 comments

66.

No publication without confirmation (www.nature.com)

225 points by ktamiola 2017-02-26 | 111 comments

67.

The presence of microplastics in commercial salts from different countries (www.nature.com)

223 points by r721 2017-04-09 | 56 comments

68.

Rats free each other from cages (2011) (www.nature.com)

222 points by CarolineW 2016-07-03 | 169 comments

69.

Stephen Hawking: 'There are no black holes' (www.nature.com)

220 points by mrfusion 2014-01-24 | 139 comments

70.

Scott Kelly's DNA shows unexpected telomere lengthening after year in space (www.nature.com)

218 points by ramzyo 2017-02-01 | 59 comments

71.

Unprovability comes to machine learning (www.nature.com)

218 points by joker3 2019-01-08 | 124 comments

72.

China backs bold plan to tear down journal paywalls (www.nature.com)

217 points by Vinnl 2018-12-06 | 68 comments

73.

Benefit of Microbiota Transfer Therapy on autism symptoms and gut microbiota (www.nature.com)

216 points by blockmarker 2019-04-11 | 142 comments

74.

Human-level control through deep reinforcement learning (www.nature.com)

209 points by daisystanton 2015-02-25 | 59 comments

75.

Hierarchy Is Detrimental for Human Cooperation (www.nature.com)

208 points by rfreytag 2015-12-23 | 117 comments

76.

Methane leaks from US gas fields dwarf government estimates (www.nature.com)

207 points by digital55 2018-06-22 | 94 comments

77.

Five big mysteries about CRISPR’s origins (www.nature.com)

204 points by bcaulfield 2017-01-13 | 33 comments

78.

How Elephants Avoid Cancer (2015) (www.nature.com)

202 points by avenoir 2017-07-04 | 50 comments

79.

Cells edited using CRISPR–Cas9 injected into a person for the first time (www.nature.com)

201 points by snake117 2016-11-15 | 52 comments

80.

Antibiotic resistance: The last resort (www.nature.com)

200 points by dn2k 2013-07-27 | 123 comments

81.

Age differences in learning from an insufficient representation of uncertainty (www.nature.com)

200 points by danieltillett 2016-08-16 | 88 comments

82.

The myopia boom (2015) (www.nature.com)

199 points by betterfuture 2018-04-28 | 67 comments

83.

Microsoft’s purchase of GitHub leaves some scientists uneasy (www.nature.com)

197 points by bcaulfield 2018-06-16 | 142 comments

84.

The rise and fall of scientific authority, and how to bring it back (www.nature.com)

197 points by bookofjoe 2019-03-18 | 392 comments

85.

NASA reveals delay for Hubble successor (www.nature.com)

195 points by okket 2018-03-27 | 145 comments

86.

Mathematicians aim to take publishers out of publishing (www.nature.com)

194 points by ananyob 2013-01-18 | 43 comments

87.

People can sense single photons (www.nature.com)

194 points by mathgenius 2016-07-26 | 90 comments

88.

A first for physics: Fundamental quantum physics problem proved unsolvable (www.nature.com)

193 points by fluxic 2015-12-10 | 62 comments

89.

Amgen publishes failures to replicate high-profile science (www.nature.com)

193 points by chriskanan 2016-02-06 | 14 comments

90.

Fossils from Morocco complicate the story of modern humans (www.nature.com)

192 points by biridir 2017-09-11 | 55 comments

91.

Cosmologist claims Universe may not be expanding (2013) (www.nature.com)

192 points by hairytrog 2019-04-06 | 94 comments

92.

Why scientific programming does not compute (www.nature.com)

192 points by szany 2011-07-06 | 164 comments

93.

Google revives controversial cold-fusion experiments (www.nature.com)

191 points by okket 2019-05-28 | 154 comments

94.

The case for rejecting the memristor as a fundamental circuit element (2018) (www.nature.com)

191 points by gbrown_ 2019-04-12 | 46 comments

95.

Polynesian people used a kind of binary number system 600 years ago (2013) (www.nature.com)

190 points by ghewgill 2017-06-16 | 115 comments

96.

Tom Lehrer at 90: a life of scientific satire (www.nature.com)

190 points by ohjeez 2018-04-06 | 83 comments

97.

Study finds negative association between empathizing and calculation ability (www.nature.com)

189 points by randomname2 2016-03-15 | 71 comments

98.

The digital native is a myth (www.nature.com)

189 points by okket 2017-07-30 | 178 comments

99.

The mathematics of science’s broken reward system (www.nature.com)

187 points by seycombi 2016-11-17 | 78 comments

100.

Idea that intestinal bacteria affect mental health gains ground (www.nature.com)

187 points by whyenot 2014-11-13 | 84 comments

Last Update 2022-06-26 00:06

Created by Daniel E. Cook

Signup for RobinHood

Not affiliated with Hacker News or YCombinator