[z3t4]

What I find interesting is that many papers use references from the 70's and some times even 100 years old, in where they used very crude tools to come to certain conclusions.

I'm not saying we should discard old science discoveries, but it would be interesting redoing the experiments with today's technology.

[pelario]

I think that one usually cites the paper were the idea was first proposed, and also some of the latest advances in the trend (including, as your example, papers where the experiment is redo with newest technology).

The thing is that "the latest paper" on the topic is very likely to change over time, but the first paper that proposed the idea is likely to remain the same.

[pcrh]

Nobody discards "old" science discoveries, any more than they discard the "old" inventions of steel, or indeed the wheel, they build upon them.

Re-visiting previous studies with newer approaches is a common theme in archaeology, where sites or artifacts are sometimes incompletely investigated on purpose, with the view to leaving undisturbed material that can be investigated in the future using technology not yet conceived of.

[logicallee]

I hope this doesn't make me sound like a hipster, but I can't remember the last time I saw a wheel.

[rflrob]

How did you get to work today? Even if you walked, are there really no vehicles along the road?

[logicallee]

So, I was actually making a joke :)

[JetSpiegel]

How did you scroll this page?

[pedrosorio]

Touchpad/touchscreen swipe?

[esrauch]

Touchpad?