The latest update from the CRU shows a huge drop from +0.715C (above baseline) in August to +0.561 in September.

The trend in temperatures since the last El Nino broke in January 2016 looks like this:

http://woodfortrees.org/plot/hadcrut4gl/from:2016/to:2017.75/mean:1/plot/hadcrut4gl/from:2016/to:2017.75/mean:1/trend

I just wanted to say thanks to anyone and everyone contributing to this subreddit. Everything here is just so interesting and new, this is definitely my favorite subreddit.

So thanks everyone and keep up the good work, many of us greatly appreciate it!

The latest ENSO report:

http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/analysis_monitoring/enso_advisory/ensodisc.shtml

We've had a decade-ish long lull of hurricanes, at least of those making landfall. Now we have three spinning simultaneously just after a large one hit. Saw a report of two large sunspots pointed in our general direction since the eclipse (someone still using their eclipse glasses). Coincidence?

Fuzzing the Phone in your Phone

Collin Mulliner, Charlie Miller

June 25, 2009 (probably not printed yet)

Computer Science/Security/SMS protocol/smart phone security

This is by far the hottest paper of this week. Not published in a Journal but still scientifically written. Suitable to anyone who has an interest in security and how designs flaws are exploited. It demonstrates a number of potential weaknesses in the implementation of the SMS service in current smart phones. It also gives a good basis for further work on the area.

I am immensely curious about this field, and would really appreciate your opinions on current research and the future of psychedelic( and/or psychoactive) drug research of any kind. Also, if you have had any experience with it, what did you think of it?

Discover how Google DeepMind's AlphaGenome AI and revolutionary yeast-based "beer vaccines" are transforming DNA into editable code for personalized medicine.

If a person of a certain ethnicity is brought up in a society dominated by another, would there be a genetically driven attraction to one's own race?