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Tobias Lange

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Tobias Lange covers Nutrition, Fitness and Research.

Articles by Tobias Lange

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What a p-value actually means (and what it doesn't)

Tobias Lange

Peer review may catch less bad science than readers assume

Peer review may catch less bad science than readers assume

Tobias Lange

Infographic chart comparing cost per ton of CO2 across capture approaches

Why pulling carbon from air still costs so much

Tobias Lange

Infographic of an Argo float profiling ocean depths

Why ocean heat content is the climate number to watch

Tobias Lange

Microbiologist examining bacterial culture plates under laboratory safety cabinet light

How the newest antibiotics attack bacteria that resist the old ones

Tobias Lange

Nurse interviewing an older woman participant at home

What makes an observational study strong

Tobias Lange

Empty genomics laboratory with sequencing machines and liquid-handling robots under cool light

What single-cell sequencing reveals about tissues that old tools missed

Tobias Lange

Trial coordinators reviewing a registration entry on an office computer together

What preregistering a trial prevents

Tobias Lange

Studio close-up of a flexible electrode thread array resting on dark laboratory surface

How brain-computer interfaces are tested for safety

Tobias Lange

Flowchart of journal credibility checks from indexing to review time

How to spot a predatory journal

Tobias Lange

Infographic chart comparing laser energy input and fusion output of ignition shots

Why fusion's net-gain milestone is so hard to repeat

Tobias Lange

Infographic of the Mars sample return chain of steps

How Mars Sample Return shrank before it could fly

Tobias Lange

Mission control team monitoring a simulated lunar landing

Why lunar missions keep aiming for the south pole

Tobias Lange

Two researchers comparing printouts while repeating an analysis

How a finding earns the label reproducible

Tobias Lange

Telescope dome on a Chilean mountain ridge at dusk

How the Vera Rubin Observatory will photograph the whole sky

Tobias Lange

Empty biostatistics office with whiteboard diagram and analysis screens

Why sample size matters in medical research

Tobias Lange

Frozen blood sample vials in a labeled laboratory rack

What a cohort study can and cannot show

Tobias Lange

A researcher annotating a printed journal article with pencil notes

How to read a scientific paper in twenty minutes

Tobias Lange

Diverse trial participants speaking with coordinators in a hospital corridor

How a clinical trial arm actually works

Tobias Lange