A bombshell 2009 report suggested widespread errors in the FBI's crime labs in the late 1980s and early 1990s, leading to ...

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For decades, researchers have pointed to “blue zones” as rare places where people often reach very old age in good health.

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Twenty-five years of research into complex systems shows why artificial intelligence will always produce errors in healthcare decisions, regardless of technological improvements or funding.

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You probably use science words every day without thinking twice about them. Someone might tell you they have a theory about ...

Scientists have developed a new approach to correcting common quantum computing errors, which could pave the way for more ...

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A microscopic structure in mammalian egg cells called a meiotic spindle has one crucial job—and during egg maturation, it has only a few hours to do it properly. What happens in those few hours has ...

We tend to explain the world by pointing to what things are, not what they’re interacting with. A new analysis argues that this bias has repeatedly steered science down blind alleys. The pattern shows ...