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      <title>What a p-value actually means (and what it doesn&apos;t)</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[A p-value measures how surprising data would be under no effect — not whether a finding is true or how big it is. Here is the statistic explained, and its documented traps.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 08:54:12 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Tobias Lange</dc:creator>
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      <title>The semaglutide heart trial that changed the obesity-drug conversation, in close-up</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Fossils are almost never dated directly. Geologists date the rock around them instead, and the method depends entirely on what happens to be nearby.]]></description>
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      <dc:creator>Samuel Achebe</dc:creator>
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      <title>Papers that get harsher peer review may end up more cited</title>
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      <dc:creator>Samuel Achebe</dc:creator>
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      <title>How does peer review actually work before publication?</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Before a scientific claim reaches print, an editor and a small group of outside experts read it first — a filter meant to catch errors, not to guarantee a finding is correct.]]></description>
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      <dc:creator>Samuel Achebe</dc:creator>
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      <description><![CDATA[A 2025 analysis in PNAS finds reviewers often disagree with each other — and shows which specific fixes actually help.]]></description>
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      <dc:creator>Tobias Lange</dc:creator>
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      <description><![CDATA[A 2026 study in Nature Medicine tracked a man with ALS using a brain-computer interface independently at home for nearly two years — a long-term, single-participant test of whether such systems can work outside the lab, not yet a device anyone else can buy.]]></description>
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      <dc:creator>Bianca Torres</dc:creator>
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      <title>How does a federally funded lab discovery become a company?</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The Bayh-Dole Act of 1980 set the route from federal grant to patent to licensed startup — and federal records track the paperwork far better than the outcomes.]]></description>
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      <dc:creator>Victor Petrov</dc:creator>
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      <title>When animal studies fail to translate</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Around nine in ten drug candidates entering human trials fail there. Why animal results so rarely translate, and how to read them.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Samuel Achebe</dc:creator>
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      <description><![CDATA[The technology teaches cells to build a single viral protein, then lets the immune system do the rest.]]></description>
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      <title>How to check a health claim in five minutes</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Why pulling carbon from air still costs so much</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Direct air capture fights dilution and thermodynamics: why pulling a ton of CO2 from air still costs hundreds of dollars, and what could change that.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Tobias Lange</dc:creator>
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      <title>Why ocean heat content is the climate number to watch</title>
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      <dc:creator>Tobias Lange</dc:creator>
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