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Can Science Predict When a Study Won’t Hold Up?

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Carl Zimmer
Conducting research is hard; confirming the results is, too. And artificial intelligence isn’t yet ready to help, a major new study finds.

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Brian 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.

Five Takeaways From the Birthright Citizenship Argument

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Adam Liptak and Ann E. Marimow
The justices grappled with questions about domiciles and foundlings, avoided policy debates and mused about the sweep of possible rulings.

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The case argued on Wednesday focused on the constitutionality of an executive order seeking to end citizenship for babies born on U.S. soil to undocumented immigrants and temporary foreign visitors.

C.D.C. Pauses Testing for Rabies and Pox Viruses

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Apoorva Mandavilli
The diseases were removed from a list of tests the agency conducts for state and local health departments. Experts worry that with drastic staff reductions, the testing may not resume.

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A swab that tested positive for the mpox virus in a laboratory at the University of Washington in Seattle in 2022.

Placing U.S. Troops in Middle East Hotels May Violate Laws of War

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Thomas Gibbons-Neff
U.S. commanders have kept many troops away from bases in the region to protect them from Iran’s ballistic missile attacks.

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A drone attack hit a fuel tank near the Dubai International Airport amid the U.S.-Israel conflict with Iran. U.S. commanders have relocated many of their troops because bases did not have adequate defenses to protect from Iranian ballistic missiles and drones.

He Won Birthright Citizenship for All. His Own Family Never Knew.

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Amy Qin
Wong Kim Ark brought his case to the Supreme Court in 1898. But some of his descendants didn’t even know his name until about 15 years ago.

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Sandra and Norman Wong, the grandchildren of Wong Kim Ark, whose victory in the 1898 Supreme Court case affirmed automatic citizenship for nearly all children born in the United States.
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