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• Science Jun 2, 2026 AI Scans of a Neglected Chest Organ Predict Longevity and Immunotherapy Response, Two Nature Papers Find A deep-learning tool that scores thymic health from routine CT images linked better thymus tissue to a 50% lower risk of all-cause death and a 37% lower risk of cancer progression in patients on immune checkpoint inhibitors.
  By Dr. Maya Iyer, Staff Reporter
• Science Jun 1, 2026 Cochrane Review Finds Anti-Amyloid Alzheimer's Drugs Offer No Meaningful Cognitive Benefit A systematic review of 17 trials and more than 20,000 participants concludes that drugs designed to clear amyloid plaques from the brain do not produce clinically meaningful improvements in cognition or dementia severity.
  By Dr. Maya Iyer, Staff Reporter
• Science May 27, 2026 The Two-Culture Problem in Modern Biology: What Actually Happens When Computation Meets the Bench Computational biologists and wet-lab scientists are supposed to work together, but the workflow between a protein structure prediction and a pipette is more complicated than most papers let on.
  By Dr. Maya Iyer, Staff Reporter
• Science May 6, 2026 Anatomy of a Rigorous Systematic Review: What to Look For Before You Trust the Conclusions Systematic reviews sit at the top of the evidence hierarchy, but the label guarantees nothing. Here is how to read one like a methods-first scientist.
  By Dr. Maya Iyer, Staff Reporter
• Science Apr 22, 2026 Why Most Shared Scientific Resources Quietly Collapse Under Their Own Success Biobanks, reagent repositories, and data consortia tend to follow a predictable failure curve -- and the pattern reveals something fundamental about how science funds collective goods.
  By Dr. Maya Iyer, Staff Reporter
• Science Apr 15, 2026 The Postdoc Bottleneck: How a Single Career Stage Quietly Selects Who Gets to Run a Lab The postdoctoral years were designed as a training bridge, but they now function more like a sorting mechanism, and the selection criteria have little to do with scientific talent.
  By Dr. Maya Iyer, Staff Reporter
• Science Apr 8, 2026 What a Real Preregistration Looks Like in a Clinical Trial Preregistration is supposed to be science's promise to itself. Here is what separates a document that keeps that promise from one that just checks a box.
  By Dr. Maya Iyer, Staff Reporter
• Science Mar 25, 2026 The Tyranny of the Asterisk: Why Effect Sizes Tell You What P-Values Cannot A statistically significant result answers whether something happened. An effect size answers whether it matters. Researchers have known this distinction for decades. Coverage still ignores it.
  By Dr. Maya Iyer, Staff Reporter
• Science Mar 18, 2026 Why the Graduate Student Labor Model Is a Structural Problem, Not a Pipeline Problem Universities frame the oversupply of PhDs as a mismatch between training and careers, but the labor arrangement itself is the variable worth examining.
  By Dr. Maya Iyer, Staff Reporter
• Science Feb 18, 2026 How the Replication Crisis Rewired the Grant Cycle Funding agencies spent years treating reproducibility as a methods footnote. The field's reckoning forced them to make it a budget line.
  By Dr. Maya Iyer, Staff Reporter
• Science Feb 11, 2026 Why Clinical Research Has a Statistics Problem That Peer Review Keeps Passing From p-value worship to underpowered trials, a pattern of numerical misuse is baked into the incentive structures of biomedical publishing, and spotting it requires skills most reviewers were never formally taught.
  By Dr. Maya Iyer, Staff Reporter
• Science Feb 4, 2026 The Predictable Failure: Why Clinical Trials Collapse in Ways We Should Have Seen Coming A structural look at how trials fail, why retrospective analyses keep finding the same warning signs, and what the pattern reveals about how translational science actually works.
  By Dr. Maya Iyer, Staff Reporter
• Science Jan 21, 2026 The Preprint Inflection Point: What Posting Before Peer Review Actually Changes Preprints moved science faster during recent public health crises, but speed and scrutiny do not automatically travel together, and the pipeline has not caught up.
  By Dr. Maya Iyer, Staff Reporter
• Science Jan 7, 2026 Why Some Methods Jump Fields and Most Die at the Border The uneven migration of methodological advances across scientific disciplines follows patterns that researchers and science journalists alike would do well to understand.
  By Dr. Maya Iyer, Staff Reporter

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