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- Psychology
‘Gorilla man’ goes unheard
Paying attention to what others say can make listeners totally unaware of unexpected sounds.
- Space
Atom & Cosmos
An asteroid's star turn, a 520-day mission to nowhere and the brightest millisecond pulsar ever.
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Love affair with statistics gives science a significant problem
Scientists love statistical significance. It offers a way to test hypotheses. It’s a ticket to publishing, to media coverage, to tenure. It’s also a crock — statistically speaking, anyway. You know the idea. When scientists perform an experiment and their data suggest an important result — say, that watching TV causes influenza — there’s always the nagging concern that the finding […]
- Health & Medicine
First brain image of a dream created
Feat opens the door to probing the stuff of nocturnal dramas.
