McCartney has long claimed that he wrote the melody to "In My Life," but Lennon stated that his songwriting partner had only contributed to the middle section of the tune. This study suggests they ...

Just to get the obvious out of the way, no science should be burdened with a memorable dis from Disraeli (as popularized by Mark Twain), and statisticians have had it up to here with being tagged as ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. When we talk about the politics and broader values of modern societies, we generally think of people as being ...

How confident are you in your lab results? This paper explores this question and, by way of a worked example, provides a methodology to answer it. Many may wonder at the number of analytical chemists ...

Some who challenged Baxter's study focused on its supposed scientific flaws. These criticisms, well-summarized by Nekhlyudov and Fletcher,4 include the claims that the Chinese and Russian studies may ...