7 comments

  • altairprime 50 minutes ago
    This content is from 2014-15; perhaps they AI-rehashed the Yahoo! News story about them?

    https://www.yahoo.com/news/16-old-girls-win-google-science-f...

    They posted a video summarizing their efforts in 2014:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vL9N7O0uJoU

    Vice did an interview in 2016:

    https://www.vice.com/en/article/these-teenagers-science-proj...

    Ciara Judge went on to join the research effort to stop Covid in 2021:

    https://ciarajudge.github.io/about

    And recently earned her Ph.D publishing GPL3 software:

    https://github.com/ciarajudge/EpiFusion

    > EpiFusion uses particle filtering to simulate epidemic trajectories over time and weight their likelihood according to both case incidence data and a phylogenetic tree using separate observation models, resulting in the inference of trajectories in agreement with both sets of data.

    https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1012528

    • telesilla 21 minutes ago
      Definitely AI written, though it got the point across and it wasn't terrible to read and it was new information to me so I was glad to read it.

      At this point what news site isn't AI written? Except for the few remaining human blogs (which are a delight and a pleasure). Why I detected AI: it said "The honest footnote.." at the end. That's how Claude always ends our long-rambling discussions.

      • albumen 2 minutes ago
        Lots of news sites aren't AI written; or if AI is involved, it's not as blatant as in this article. The 'papers of record' largely remain AI-free. You increasingly have to pay for good journalism.
  • Tade0 21 minutes ago
    Using nitrogen-fixing bacteria is not a new concept and it's the life's work of Dr Mariangela Hungria, who recently received the 2025 World Food Prize for her achievements in the field:

    https://www.worldfoodprize.org/en/laureates/20202026_laureat...

  • CalRobert 54 minutes ago
    I thought this was going to be an eats, shoots, and leaves style discussion.

    A wart-covered pea plant is what they refer to (near Cork, Ireland)

  • rmason 2 hours ago
    For years the holy grail has been for corn to produce its own nitrogen. This could be a small step in the right direction. Interested to see what happens when some of the great American agricultural schools further this experiment.
    • KaiserPro 34 minutes ago
      I thought all those school/systems of colleges had their budgets cut last year?
    • blooalien 26 minutes ago
      > ... what happens when some of the great American agricultural schools further this experiment.

      "Brawndo! It's got what plants crave!"

    • dofm 43 minutes ago
      Putting aside the cultural imperialism (this happened in Ireland, which is in Europe, which is also where two of the greatest agricultural schools in the world, if not also the two greatest for this, are based), it also happened over a decade ago, so I guess everyone has tried furthering it by now.
  • spiderfarmer 24 minutes ago
    Cool a science blog! But it's a rehashed article, followed by an infinite amount of random Taboola scams, arbitrage posts, clickbait articles with jarring content.

    Why does shit like that work better than quality contextual advertising?

  • akhil_findincal 7 minutes ago
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