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Whether architects must code or not has been much debated. Why not try debugging?

[T]he confidence in the unlimited power of science is only too often based on a false belief that the scientific method consists of a ready-made technique, or in imitating the form rather than the substance of scientific procedure, as if one needed only to follow some cooking recipes to solve all so

Many kinds of biases can creep into a study, rendering it less than effective. HowStuffWorks looks at 10 types of study biases.

Lab-on-a Chip Expands Functional Studies of Enzyme Variants July 22, 2021 A microfluidic platform for high-throughput expression, purification, and characterization of enzyme variants has been applied to the study of a familiar enzyme, PafA (phosphate-irrepressible alkaline phosphatase of Flavobacterium). [Daniel Mokhtari, Stamford University] Share Just because an enzyme has an active site doesn’t mean the rest of the enzyme should be disregarded, as though it were so much dead weight. It in...

Namely, a raft of still-unexamined evidence that required additional computer analysis that might shed light on the mystery," according to anonymous senior administration officials. In other words, the US government has been sitting on a large collection of intelligence in perhaps the most important investigation into an economy-wrecking global pandemic, as China destroyed evidence and has refused to cooperate with international probes. According to the report, Bidens call for the new inve...