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Dr Spock’s dangerous advice on baby sleep
How evidence eventually showed front sleeping was linked to sudden infant deaths
How likely is ‘likely’?
Adam Kucharski explains what people really mean when they use probability language
How much water does AI consume?
We take a deep dive into AI’s water consumption
Paul Ehrlich: The man who bet England wouldn’t exist by the year 2000
Why Paul Ehrlich’s dire predictions about a population collapse failed to materialise
Transgender women in sport: Does ‘comparable’ mean ‘equal’?
Investigating a scientific paper analysing the strength and fitness of transgender women
US-Israel war with Iran: Do the gulf states have enough interceptor missiles?
What we know about missile stockpiles following the US-Israeli strikes on Iran
Has a company really discovered a million new species?
Investigating whether Basecamp Research found hundreds of thousands of bacteria species
Did AI researchers let AI hallucinations into scientific papers?
Investigating a claim that 100 made-up claims were found in AI papers
Is an ancient charioteer the best paid sportsperson of all time?
Did a Roman charioteer really earn the equivalent of $15 billion dollars?
Is this Premier League striker a secret maths genius?
Tim Harford explains the numbers and statistics in the news and in life.
