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On further review, the study claiming that the universe is expanding at a steady rate ended up independently proving accelerating expansion.
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There is a cure for Dunning Kruger according to one of its discoverers. Unfortunately, there's a risk of collateral damage when it's applied.
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Maybe a medical conference is not the best place to elevate the profiles of snake oil salespeople...
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Multilevel marketing companies (a.k.a. pyramid schemes) are good at recruiting people because they prey on the same human weaknesses as alt med woo-meisters.
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Just because we're very unlikely to hear from aliens doesn't mean we shouldn't at least try to listen.
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Clickbait punditry is selling a story about a study into male birth control whose participants wimped out. But that's not at all what happened...
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A new paper claims that the universe's expansion isn't accelerating. If that's true, we have to start rewriting cosmology as we know it.
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A project to replicate studies it found problematic is running into its own replication problems and not following experimental designs.
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Global warming is making tornado outbreaks more unpredictable and pushing them to extremes.
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Peer review and editorial input at PLOS ONE are in trouble and scientists are very, very upset.
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Fast radio bursts get even more mysterious with new detections and point to a new culprit: magnetically supercharged neutron stars.
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Lamar Smith refuses to give up on manufacturing a scandal, demanding publicly available data from NOAA
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Quantification and tracking gets people to do more of what you want them to do, but makes doing it a lot less fun.
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A modern twist on a classic experiment shows how we mentally disassociate from ourselves when carrying out orders.
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A new study showing that your through patterns are unique enough to be seen on a brain scan is being misinterpreted as a test run of an IQ detector.
