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How Scientific Peer Review Actually Works
Peer review is the quality-control system behind almost every study you read about. It is more human, more flawed and more important…
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Climate, space, life sciences and research. Cubed News science coverage translates peer-reviewed work and major findings into clear, accurate context. Edited by Daniel Okoro.
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What Quantum Computing Could and Could Not Do
A useful quantum computer would not be a faster laptop. It would excel at a narrow set of problems in chemistry, materials…
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What CRISPR Gene Editing Can and Cannot Do
CRISPR has already moved from the lab into approved medicine, but its real capabilities are narrower, and its ethical questions sharper, than…
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How Carbon Capture and Storage Actually Works
Carbon capture is neither a silver bullet nor a hoax. It is a real, working set of technologies with a narrow, expensive…
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Why the James Webb Space Telescope Matters
It is not just a bigger Hubble. By seeing in infrared, Webb looks further back in cosmic time and into places visible…
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What the IPCC Assessment Reports Actually Say
The IPCC does not run experiments or set policy. It synthesises the published science — and its conclusions are more measured, and…