Scientific Fraud Is Slippery to Catch—but Easier to Combat
[ad_1] Like much of the internet, PubPeer is the sort of place where you might want to be anonymous. There, under randomly assigned taxonomic names like Actinopolyspora biskrensis (a bacterium) and Hoya camphorifolia (a…
There’s a New Explanation for ‘Genetic’ Trait Pairs: Your Parents
[ad_1] Border and his colleagues are not the first to raise the possibility of spurious genetic correlations. When designing studies, geneticists can control for the effects of factors like parental traits and…
For Alzheimer’s Scientists, the Amyloid Debate Has No Easy Answers
[ad_1] Watching the Alzheimer’s research world from the outside over the past two years has felt like a car ride over an unpaved mountain road without a seatbelt. In 2021,…
A Huge New Data Set Pushes the Limits of Neuroscience
[ad_1] So neuroscientists use an approach called “dimensionality reduction” to make such visualization possible—they take data from thousands of neurons and, by applying clever techniques from linear algebra, describe their…
For Some Patients, Long Covid Symptoms Mask Something Else
[ad_1] It was overuse of acetaminophen that finally led to Nic Petermann’s cancer diagnosis. For months, the then 26-year-old had been contending with exhaustion, night sweats, recurring fevers, and abdominal…
The Psychology of Inspiring Everyday Climate Action
[ad_1] And co-benefits make a lot of sense: People might reasonably feel more empowered to affect their own health than the health of the entire planet. Self-efficacy (the perception that…
Gender-Affirming Care Improves Mental Health—and May Save Lives
[ad_1] In the midst of a slew of anti-trans legislation proposed earlier this year, Spencer Cox, the Republican governor of Utah, made an impassioned plea to his state’s legislature as…