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Three statistical stuff-ups that made everyday items look healthier (or riskier) than they really are
Conducting scientific studies is never easy, and there are often major disasters along the way. A researcher accidentally spills coffee... Read more -
Saturday Citations: One tough neutrino; time palindrome time; sizing up animal brains
How's your weekend? Have you read about the muscular neutrino? It's so great. This week, we also reported on male... Read more -
Man from uncontacted Indigenous tribe emerges in Amazon, and villagers demonstrate a lighter
In a rare encounter, a young man from an isolated Indigenous tribe approached a riverine community in Brazil's Amazon, the... Read more -
Saturday Citations: Cetacean conversations and cataclysmic decimations
We had a particularly great week for new research findings, in my opinion. I mean, stories like a 2% improvement... Read more -
Turkey's earthquake reconstruction efforts must balance speed with fairness
Two years after the devastating 2023 earthquakes in Turkey that killed about 60,000 people and caused the collapse of 57,000... Read more -
Hidden images in Jackson Pollock paintings may have been intentional, argues study
According to new research published by psychiatry professor Stephen M. Stahl, artist Jackson Pollock clearly incorporated images into his pre-drip... Read more -
Saturday Citations: Spider zombies; the morphology of cute dogs; entropy is coming for everyone
This week, astronomers reported the discovery of a super-Earth potentially capable of sustaining life, occupying an eccentric orbit around its... Read more -
'Doomsday Clock' moves closer to midnight amid threats of climate change, nuclear war, pandemics, AI
Earth is moving closer to destruction, a science-oriented advocacy group said Tuesday as it advanced its famous "Doomsday Clock" to... Read more -
Saturday Citations: Europe is sun powered; mitochondria lead busy lives; Plus: life in the big, interdependent city
¡Hola, mis amigos de la ciencia! This week, researchers reported that hominins strode bipedally across Europe 500,000 years earlier than... Read more -
German man sets world record living for 120 days underwater
A German aerospace engineer celebrated setting a world record Friday for the longest time living underwater without depressurization—120 days in... Read more -
Philanthropy provides $30B annually for science and health research, funding that tends to stay local
The foundations making charitable donations to support scientific and health research mostly give to institutions in their home states.... Read more -
New Zealand mayor goes nuclear after Trump claims US 'split the atom'
A small town mayor in New Zealand has picked a nuclear fight with Donald Trump, after the freshly sworn-in US... Read more -
Biden helped bring science out of the lab and into the community—emphasizing research focused on solutions
President Joe Biden was inaugurated in January 2021 amid a devastating pandemic, with over 24 million COVID-19 cases and more... Read more -
How scientists with disabilities are making research labs and fieldwork more accessible
The path to Lost Lake was steep and unpaved, lined with sharp rocks and holes.... Read more -
Saturday citations: New cretaceous predator just dropped; neutron star mountains; a cool 'living seawall'
This week, scientists with Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute reported that a key current, the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, has not... Read more
