Researchers might be using your Facebook data in their papers
A recent study asked people what they thought about academics using their social media data
With a zap of electricity, scientists write a message into bacterial DNA for the first time
DNA is compact and information-dense, making it the perfect material for data storage
Racial injustice causes Black Americans to age faster than whites
The "weathering hypothesis" explains higher rates of chronic disease and infant mortality
What happens when a scientist investigates results that are "too beautiful to be true"?
Inside Tsuyoshi Miyakawa's attempts to improve reproducibility in science
A version of this article originally appeared on The Conversation
Why parents should think twice about tracking apps for their kids
Just because you can, doesn't mean you should.
Scientific knowledge is drowning in a flood of research
A comic about the problems with the -omics, illustrated by Matteo Farinella
The furious pace of modern research is creating a gnarly statistics problem
The truth is a needle in an ever-growing haystack. Scientists need better statistical education to find it
How stubborn data changed the way we think about money and health
The ‘Hispanic health paradox’ shows that scientists should follow the data, not their biases
A version of this article originally appeared on NPR Scicommers
When scientists become 'data parasites,' everybody wins
Why some scientists are celebrating colleagues who "steal" data