Science blogs

Gwern Branwen writes long, heavily researched essays on AI, statistics, nootropics, technology economics, and other subjects.

Top post: Laws of Tech Economics: Commoditize Your Complement

Scientific American hosts blogs by various writers on neuroscience, physics, health, psychology, and science and society.

Top post: IgNobel Prize in Neuroscience: The dead salmon study (2012)

Scott Aaronson, a theoretical computer scientist, writes about quantum computing, computational complexity, and related questions.

Top post: Quantum supremacy, now with BosonSampling

DeepMind's official blog, announcing research results such as WaveNet, AlphaFold, AlphaCode, and MuZero.

Top post: WaveNet: A Generative Model for Raw Audio

Philip Guo's page at MIT CSAIL hosts research papers, essays, and old mailing-list posts on programming languages, vision, and AI.

Top post: “A closure is a poor man’s object; an object is a poor man’s closure” (2003)

Discover Magazine hosts science blogs by multiple writers covering biology, psychology, genetics, space, and research news.

Top post: How food-breaks sway the decisions of judges

Randall Munroe, the xkcd creator, answers absurd hypothetical questions with physics, math, and careful research.

Top post: Orbital Speed

Adrian Colyer wrote daily summaries of computer science research papers, mostly on systems, databases, and software engineering.

Top post: To type or not to type: quantifying detectable bugs in JavaScript

Google's research team posts on machine learning, speech, vision, and language models, plus occasional general engineering pieces.

Top post: Nearly all binary searches and mergesorts are broken (2006)

A network of science bloggers, including Good Math, Bad Math and Pharyngula, covering math, biology, computing, and pseudoscience.

Top post: Strange Loops: Ken Thompson and the Self-referencing C Compiler

Derek Lowe, a medicinal chemist, writes the Science 'In the Pipeline' blog on drug discovery, vaccines, and hazardous chemistry.

Top post: Things I Won’t Work With: Dioxygen Difluoride (2010)

John Walker, Autodesk co-founder, runs Fourmilab, a personal site covering science, software, random number generation, and The Hacker's Diet.

Top post: The Hacker's Diet (2005)

Language Log is a group blog by linguists, including Geoffrey Pullum, on grammar, language use, and linguistic research.

Top post: Language Log

A watchdog site reporting on retracted scientific papers, research misconduct, and problems in academic publishing, run by journalists.

Top post: “I placed too much faith in underpowered studies:” Nobel Prize winner admits (2017)

Damn Interesting publishes long-form articles on strange true stories, science, and history, such as the Great Molasses Flood.

Top post: The origin of circuits (2007)

A news blog on emerging technology covering energy, space, batteries, nuclear power, and longevity, with frequent data-driven posts.

Top post: Deaths per TWH by Energy Source

Andrew Gelman and colleagues at Columbia write about statistics, causal inference, research misconduct, and replication problems in social science.

Top post: Concerns with that Stanford antibody study of coronavirus prevalence

Bartosz Ciechanowski writes long interactive explainers on how things work, such as watches, GPS, engines, and cameras.

Top post: Mechanical Watch

John Baez, a mathematical physicist, writes expository pages on math and physics, including relativity, topology, and the Crackpot Index.

Top post: The Crackpot Index

A group blog by physicians and scientists who evaluate medical claims, alternative medicine, screening tests and research quality.

Top post: What the Heck Happened to John Ioannidis?

Andrej Karpathy's Stanford pages host his deep learning projects, image captioning work and PhD thesis, plus other Stanford CS material.

Top post: ConvNetJS: Deep Learning in your browser

Skeptical Science is a site run by volunteers that rebuts common climate change myths using published scientific research.

Top post: Global Warming & Climate Change Myths

Google's research division posts on machine learning, translation, quantum chemistry, and algorithm engineering, written by its own researchers and engineers.

Top post: Nearly All Binary Searches and Mergesorts Are Broken (2006)

Distill was an online journal publishing interactive, visual explanations of machine learning research, written by researchers.

Top post: Growing Neural Cellular Automata (2020)

Dynomight writes data-driven essays that analyze everyday topics like air purifiers, heritability, and health in detail.

Top post: The health benefits of better air

LSE Blogs collects posts from London School of Economics academics on economics, politics, history, academia, and book reviews.

Top post: How Academia Resembles a Drug Gang (2013)

NASA's official blogs report on missions, including the James Webb Space Telescope, OSIRIS-REx, and Voyager.

Top post: NASA says Webb’s excess fuel likely to extend its lifetime expectations

Sean Carroll, a theoretical physicist, writes about cosmology, quantum mechanics, and physics, and hosts the Mindscape podcast.

Top post: Sean Carroll's Podcast, Mindscape

Green design and sustainability news site covering architecture, clean energy, environmental technology, and eco-friendly products.

Top post: The Fallacy of Cleaning the Gyres of Plastic (2013)

Sabine Hossenfelder, a physicist, writes about foundations of physics, research funding, academia, and problems with how science is practiced.

Top post: The Truth About Nuclear Fusion Q Factors

Michael Nielsen, a physicist and writer, explains topics like Bitcoin, Bloom filters, Lisp, and quantum computing in long essays.

Top post: If correlation doesn’t imply causation, then what does? (2012)

Andrew Gelman, a Columbia statistician, writes about statistical methods, flawed research, and problems in social science.

Top post: What has happened down here is the winds have changed

The official TED blog, covering conference talks, speakers, and news from the TED organization.

Top post: What will the future look like? Elon Musk speaks at TED2017

Peter Watts, a science fiction author and former marine biologist, hosts his novels, short stories and notes on his books.

Top post: Blindsight (2006)

Amusing Planet publishes short illustrated articles on odd places, engineering feats, historical curiosities, and unusual inventions around the world.

Top post: Sao Paulo: The City with No Outdoor Advertisements

Richard Lipton and Ken Regan write on theoretical computer science, complexity theory including P vs NP, and obituaries of mathematicians.

Top post: Galactic Algorithms (2010)

Watts Up With That? is a climate-skeptic blog that disputes mainstream climate science and publishes posts on warming, sea levels and related claims.

Top post: Tesla Battery Swap Is The Hoax Of The Year

Physician Peter Attia writes and hosts a podcast on longevity, cholesterol, sleep, nutrition, and health policy.

Top post: Podcast

Alexey Guzey writes essays on science, sleep, productivity, and blogging, including a critique of "Why We Sleep."

Top post: “Why We Sleep” Is Riddled with Scientific and Factual Errors

Anthropic's interpretability team publishes research papers on reverse engineering how transformer language models work internally.

Top post: The Biology of a Large Language Model

METR is a nonprofit that evaluates AI models' capabilities and risks, including studies of AI's effect on developer productivity.

Top post: Measuring the impact of AI on experienced open-source developer productivity

John Baez, a mathematical physicist, writes on math, physics, category theory and complex systems on his Azimuth blog.

Top post: Computing the Uncomputable

The Gradient is an online magazine where AI researchers write about machine learning, NLP, interpretability, and the state of the field.

Top post: Interpretability in Machine Learning: An Overview

R-bloggers is an aggregator of blog posts from the R programming community, covering statistics, data analysis, and machine learning.

Top post: Introduction to machine learning with R

Peter Woit, a mathematician at Columbia, writes the Not Even Wrong blog on physics, mathematics and critiques of string theory.

Top post: Not Even Wrong

Scott Locklin, a quantitative finance and machine learning practitioner, writes contrarian essays on tech, APL-family languages, trading and science.

Top post: Quantum computing as a field is obvious bullshit

Pseudonymous writer who publishes detailed, readable investigations of commercial aviation accidents, covering causes, investigations, and safety lessons.

Top post: The crash of Air France flight 447 (2021)

AI researcher and co-developer of LSTM networks, who writes on the history of deep learning, creativity theory, and credit for ideas.

Top post: Annotated History of Modern AI and Deep Learning (2022)

Home page of Greg Egan, hard science fiction author, with fiction, math and physics explainers, and essays.

Top post: Google, the Stupidity Amplifier (2016)

Nature's blog network, where journal staff and scientists post about research policy, publishing, data visualization, and science news.

Top post: White House announces new US open access policy

Ethan Siegel writes popular astrophysics and cosmology articles on dark matter, the age and size of the universe, and related physics.

Top post: Five reasons we think dark matter exists a122bd606ba8

Alex Wellerstein, a historian of science, writes about nuclear weapons history, secrecy, and policy on his blog Restricted Data.

Top post: The President and the bomb

Phenomena was a National Geographic science blog collective whose writers covered biology, medicine, astronomy, statistics and history.

Top post: Apocalypse Pig: The Last Antibiotic Begins to Fail

Cosma Shalizi, a statistics professor at Carnegie Mellon, keeps a long-running personal site of notebooks, reviews and essays on statistics, science and society.

Top post: Review of A New Kind of Science by Stephen Wolfram (2002)

Timothy Gowers, a Fields medalist mathematician, writes about mathematics, academic publishing, journal reform and AI's role in math research.

Top post: Discrete Analysis – A new type of math journal

The British Psychological Society's Research Digest summarizes new psychology studies for a general audience, covering topics like personality, memory and workplace behavior.

Top post: Analysis suggests Milgram participants realised experiments not really dangerous

Science 2.0 is a science news and blog site with contributors writing on physics, space, technology and research findings.

Top post: Is the CDF W Mass Measurement a Nail in the SM Coffin?

An anonymous writing group publishes long, research-heavy posts on obesity, environmental contaminants, lithium, and the practice of science.

Top post: A Chemical Hunger: Mysteries

Philip Guo, a computer science professor, writes about PhD life, CPython internals, programming education and tech careers.

Top post: A candid book about 6 years of working towards a CS PhD at Stanford

David MacKay, the late Cambridge physicist, wrote a free textbook on information theory, inference and learning algorithms, and made the Dasher text-entry tool.

Top post: Dasher