It's said that statistics don't lie, but they often don't tell the whole truth, either. A Cornell statistics expert has come up with a method he believes can boost statistical power and significantly ...

Governments that value effective policymaking should be alert to the perils of falling survey-response rates, inadequate ...

At the NICAR 2026 conference, dozens of leading data journalists shared some of their favorite digital tools and databases for investigating numerous topics.

The central limit theorem started as a bar trick for 18th-century gamblers. Now scientists rely on it every day.

In our survey about 15 different behaviors debated in society, nine-in-ten U.S. adults say that married people having an affair is morally wrong. Republicans and Democrats differ sharply over the ...

March 19, 2026 • Autism experts plan to convene in Washington Thursday to propose a research agenda at odds with the one endorsed by the Trump Administration. March 18, 2026 • The new food pyramid was ...

From cancer to Alzheimer’s: could a renewed focus on energy transform biomedicine? Including energy dynamics in research could improve our understanding of diseases and of the healing processes that ...