3QD Science Prize Semifinalists 2015

The voting round of our science prize (details here) is over. Thanks to the nominators and the voters for participating.

So here they are, the top 23 (there was a tie for the last six places), in descending order from the most voted-for:

1. Invariance: 3 myths of physics, especially in textbooks
2. Nova Next: From Discovery to Dust
3. Bekka S. Brodie: How Blow Flies find Corpses
4. Thinking of Things: The Pain in the Brain Game
5. Roots of Unity: The Saddest Thing I Know about the Integers
6. Thinking of Things: All I Didn't Know About Cancer
7. Companion Animal Psychology: How Does a Dog's Brain Respond to the Smell of a Familiar Human?
8. 3 Quarks Daily: On Optimal Paths & Minimal Action
9. Space Age Archaeology: Shadows on the Moon: an ephemeral archaeology
10. 3 Quarks Daily: Artificially Flavored Intelligence
11. 3 Quarks Daily: Fearing Artificial Intelligence
12. Curious Wavefunction: The fundamental philosophical dilemma of chemistry
13. Social Pulses: The public subsidy of scientific publishing monopolies
14. Wired: When a Giant Asteroid Impact Created Its Own Magma
15. Excursion Set: Destiny's Child
16. Wired: Glowing Tampons Help Detect Sewage Leaks
17. Nautilus: The Sound So Loud That It Circled the Earth Four Times
18. Empirical Zeal: How a 19th Century Math Genius Taught Us the Best Way to Hold a Pizza Slice
19. Los Angeles Review of Books: Three Physicists Try Philosophy
20. No Place Like Home: When Hubble Stared at Nothing for 100 Hours
21. Science: Ants have group-level personalities, study shows
22. The Loom: Editing Human Embryos: So This Happened
23. Wait But Why: The AI Revolution: The Road to Superintelligence

The editors of 3 Quarks Daily will now pick the top six entries from these, and after possibly adding up to three “wildcard” entries, will send that list of finalists to Nick Lane for final judging. We will post the shortlist of finalists tomorrow.