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Some statisticians have been asked to falsify significance of research results, new study finds A shocking revelation during a casual conversation prompted a New York epidemiologist to investigate the ethically dubious things statisticians are sometimes asked to do when analyzing research findings. (sasirin pamai/Shutterstock) This is an excerpt from Second …

Chinese researchers also produced mice from 2 dads, but those babies survived only a couple of days This adult mouse was born to two mothers, and was healthy enough to have offspring of her own, after Chinese researchers used stem cell and gene editing technology.(Leyun Wang) Chinese researchers using gene …

Victims affected by the data breach will be notified directly, company says Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s own account was compromised in the hack, in addition to millions of users. (Stephen Lam/Reuters) Facebook says hackers accessed a wide swath of information — ranging from emails and phone numbers to more personal …

‘It’s not a guaranteed trip,’ one space historian says after this week’s Soyuz failure The Soyuz MS-09 crew spacecraft from Roscosmos is pictured docked to the Rassvet module as the International Space Station was flying into an orbital night period. Last week, a 2mm hole was detected on the upper …

Newsletter: A closer look at the day’s most notable stories Artificial Intelligence is touted as a way to remove bias from the hiring process. But Amazon had to discontinue a project to automate the shortlisting of CVs because the system developed a bias towards male applicants.(Lionel Bonaventure/AFP/Getty Images) Welcome to …

Automation and jobs to increase as company expands, says co-founder Aphria is trying to find ways to automate different parts of the cultivation of cannabis for cost control. (Chris Ensing/CBC) On the eve of legalized recreational marijuana and concerns about supply shortage, one of Canada’s largest producers believes automated machines …

Adults ate different food from babies, little Andrew’s teeth and muzzle indicate The young diplodocus ‘Andrew’ was between two and four years old and about six metres long when it died, during the late Jurassic about 150 million years ago.(Andrey Atuchin) The first baby diplodocus skull ever found is helping …

NASA’s Nick Hague and Alexei Ovchinin of Roscosmos were heading to ISS Russian cosmonaut Alexei Ovchinin, left, and U.S. astronaut Nick Hague, shown prior to the launch of Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft at the Russian-leased Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Thursday, were said to be safe after an accident forced an …

UNB grad student Krista Beardy hopes proof of microplastics in our clams will lead to changes in our behaviour Krista Beardy, a graduate student in biology, is collecting clams and mussels along the shore of the Bay of Fundy to find out how much microplastic is ending up in these …

It’s no mystery why the Arctic is warming 2 to 3 times faster than anywhere else on the planet Climate scientists have long been concerned about the rapid warming of the Arctic and the consequences it causes across the globe.(Jonathan Hayward/Canadian Press) As more and more carbon dioxide is pumped …