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Love affair with statistics gives science a significant problem
Scientists love statistical significance. It offers a way to test hypotheses. It’s a ticket to publishing, to media coverage, to tenure. It’s also a crock — statistically speaking, anyway. You know the idea. When scientists perform an experiment and their data suggest an important result — say, that watching TV causes influenza — there’s always the nagging concern that the finding […]
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Designer Flu
How scientists made a killer virus airborne — and who should know.
- Climate
Extremely Bad Weather
Teasing out global warming's role in worsening hurricanes, droughts and other extreme events.
- Humans
Predatory pythons shift Everglades ecology
As invasive snakes expand territory, some mammal populations drop by more than 90 percent within a decade.
- Life
Genes & Cells
How nanotubes trigger a cell’s gag reflex, the skulking 1918 flu and more in this week’s news.
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2010 Science News of the Year: Technology
Credit: Michael Morgenstern Lie detectors blend fact and fiction Devices that can discern honest statements from lies are much sought after, especially since a 2003 National Research Council report concluded that traditional polygraphs flag stress, not deception. But newer gadgets increasingly used by police departments and other agencies don’t tell fact from fiction either, researchers […]
- Health & Medicine
The fingers don’t lie
The brain has at least two copy editors, typing experiments show.
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Beware the Long Tail
Economic models of risk don’t add up, cadre of researchers caution.
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Tumor Tell-All
Unraveling complex genetic stories in cancer cells may lead to personalized treatment.
- Health & Medicine
Critics point to flaws in longevity study
BLOG: A study showing a genetic basis for exceptionally long life in humans has come under fire from critics.
- Health & Medicine
Neurons may function more solo than thought
Neurons coordinate activity less often than previously thought.
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Genetic Dark Matter
Searching for new sources to explain human variation.
