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How can we look at fossils and understand what creatures roamed the Earth millions of years ago?
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Doing impactful, innovative research requires training our brain to imagine the elusive unknown, even when bounded by scientific evidence. Now, more than ever in the history of human civilization, there is a pressing need to exercise our imagination muscles. Writing scientific fiction while accounting for the real science is a powerful way to do just that—to learn what is possible, what is probable, how we can change the future, and what our responsibility is to the future generation of our species.
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 33, August 2026. <br/>
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 33, August 2026. <br/>Reporting comparisons withP≥ 0.05 as showing “no effect” or “no difference” remains one of the most widespread and problematic misinterpretations in the scientific literature. A statistically nonsignificant result shows only that the data do not provide …
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