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These myths, misconceptions, and inaccuracies have been passed down through the ages. It's time to put an end to them.
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How Evidence Shows What Really Works, by Helen Pearson. Copyright © 2026 by the author and reprinted with permission of Princeton University Press. Near the border of Norfolk in England, some ...
Last week, Imperial College London, in collaboration with Nature, hosted a conference on a subject that’s rarely talked about in science: failure. The success of a conference on failure didn’t go ...
Scientists are using controlled fires to study how to protect homes from wildfires. At a site in South Carolina, researchers burn down test houses to learn how different materials and designs can ...
“On a battlefield where the enemy can see and hit almost anything moving within 20 kilometres of the front line, swapping irreplaceable humans for cheap and replaceable robots is a necessary condition ...