Can Science Predict When a Study Won’t Hold Up? NYT | Top Stories By: Carl Zimmer 1 April 2026 at 23:10 Conducting research is hard; confirming the results is, too. And artificial intelligence isn’t yet ready to help, a major new study finds. © Kirsten Luce for The New York TimesBrian Nosek, an executive director at the Center for Open Science. In the 2010s, Dr. Nosek and colleagues replicated 100 psychology papers — and matched the original results only 39 percent of the time.
Viral Outbreaks Take a Common Path from Animals to People, Study Finds NYT | China By: Carl Zimmer 9 March 2026 at 17:01 Researchers have devised a new tool for discerning between naturally occurring viral outbreaks and those resulting from lab accidents.