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Astronomers Report the First Confirmed Atmosphere on a Rocky Habitable-Zone Planet

Astronomers Report the First Confirmed Atmosphere on a Rocky Habitable-Zone Planet

Samuel Achebe

Randomization and Blinding: The Boring Machinery Behind Trustworthy Trials

Randomization and Blinding: The Boring Machinery Behind Trustworthy Trials

Samuel Achebe

TESS Found Its First Microlensing Planet — a Super-Jupiter 40,000 Light-Years Out

TESS Found Its First Microlensing Planet — a Super-Jupiter 40,000 Light-Years Out

Samuel Achebe

A 'Significant' Result Can Be Trivial. Effect Size Tells You Which.

A 'Significant' Result Can Be Trivial. Effect Size Tells You Which.

Samuel Achebe

NOAA Declares El Niño Conditions, With Odds of a Top-Ranked Event

NOAA Declares El Niño Conditions, With Odds of a Top-Ranked Event

Samuel Achebe

It Worked in Mice: Why Animal Findings Rarely Reach the Clinic

It Worked in Mice: Why Animal Findings Rarely Reach the Clinic

Samuel Achebe

Laser-Etched Metal Pulls Fresh Water From Saltwater With Zero Brine Discharge

Laser-Etched Metal Pulls Fresh Water From Saltwater With Zero Brine Discharge

Samuel Achebe

The Margin of Error Is the Least of a Survey's Problems

The Margin of Error Is the Least of a Survey's Problems

Samuel Achebe

Radar Adds Evidence of Water Ice in the Moon's Deepest Shadows

Radar Adds Evidence of Water Ice in the Moon's Deepest Shadows

Samuel Achebe

Correlation Is Not Causation: How Study Design Decides the Argument

Correlation Is Not Causation: How Study Design Decides the Argument

Samuel Achebe

Rubin Observatory's First Data Drop Delivered 11,000 New Asteroids

Rubin Observatory's First Data Drop Delivered 11,000 New Asteroids

Samuel Achebe

Underpowered Studies Find Too Much, and Too Big

Underpowered Studies Find Too Much, and Too Big

Samuel Achebe

Astronomers Catch the Aftermath of a Planetary Collision Around a Nearby Star

Astronomers Catch the Aftermath of a Planetary Collision Around a Nearby Star

Samuel Achebe

The Replication Crisis, Explained: What Broke, and What Got Rebuilt

The Replication Crisis, Explained: What Broke, and What Got Rebuilt

Samuel Achebe

Astronomers Find the Largest Sulfur-Bearing Organic Molecule in Space

Astronomers Find the Largest Sulfur-Bearing Organic Molecule in Space

Samuel Achebe

Preprints Are Not Unpublished Results. But They Are Not Proven Either.

Preprints Are Not Unpublished Results. But They Are Not Proven Either.

Samuel Achebe

JWST Spots an Early-Universe Galaxy Collision Nobody Expected

JWST Spots an Early-Universe Galaxy Collision Nobody Expected

Samuel Achebe

Meta-analyses Promise One Answer From Many Studies. Here's How They Try.

Meta-analyses Promise One Answer From Many Studies. Here's How They Try.

Samuel Achebe

2025 Was the Third-Hottest Year on Record — and Antarctica's Warmest Yet

2025 Was the Third-Hottest Year on Record — and Antarctica's Warmest Yet

Samuel Achebe

What a p-value Actually Tells You, and What It Never Will

What a p-value Actually Tells You, and What It Never Will

Samuel Achebe