2+ hour, 29+ min ago  (786+ words) Tough new standards on what constitutes a peer-reviewed journal should be enforced by governmental agencies, according to a Nobel prizewinning biochemist who claims that a “broken journal system” is destroying trust in science. In an outspoken attack on the “incredibly…...

2+ hour, 48+ min ago  (1703+ words) Adapted from an appendix of my MS thesis. Meta-Analysis Motivation Science is generally assumed to be a cumulative process, and never in history have we had access to more evidence in the form of published research articles than we do…...

2+ hour, 48+ min ago  (1888+ words) Adapted from an appendix of my MS thesis. Between-Study Heterogeneity The extent to which true effect sizes vary within a meta-analysis is called between-study heterogeneity. For example, the random-effects model assumes that between-study heterogeneity causes the true effect sizes of…...

12+ hour, 31+ min ago  (68+ words) The Washington Post Under the proposed rule, political appointees would have more power over hundreds of billions of dollars in discretionary grant funding. For two decades, Carmen Guerra has tried to detect cancer early by screening for it in the…...

23+ hour, 18+ min ago  (482+ words) Federal animal welfare citations are once again drawing scrutiny to UC Davis' primate research center, renewing a heated debate over how animals are treated in university laboratories. After the latest federal animal welfare citations, PETA renewed its demand that UC…...

1+ day, 3+ hour ago  (1416+ words) Abstract: • 1. We already know enough to act. I wish we were in a world where research was the bottleneck, but the main constraint on AI safety is n…...

1+ day, 3+ hour ago  (202+ words) A newly identified molecular mechanism reveals how glycocholic acid, a bile acid derivative, accelerates colitis progression by targeting intestinal stem cell renewal—a discovery that could reshape therapeutic approaches for inflammatory bowel diseases. This study challenges traditional views on bile…...

1+ day, 11+ hour ago  (836+ words) inkl Is the US trying to make scientists’ work so difficult that they simply give up? A politician who aims to gradually privatize and ultimately destroy an institution funded by tax dollars – say, a public school system or public transportation…...

1+ day, 13+ hour ago  (189+ words) mronline.org Making sure you're not a bot! You are seeing this because the administrator of this website has set up Anubis to protect the server against the scourge of AI companies aggressively scraping websites. This can and does cause…...

2+ day, 1+ hour ago  (297+ words) How can we teach elementary schoolers about the building blocks of the universe? That's the question I set out to answer more than 20 years ago when I founded the Quarked project at the University of Kansas. As a physics professor,…...