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Medication mistakes — in which the wrong drug or the wrong dose is given to a patient — are among the most common errors in medicine. John Wiederspan is well aware of how things can go wrong in the ...

Sheree Lloyd does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

Check rendered HTML instead of source code when diagnosing Google indexing issues. Fix JavaScript error pages that return 200 status codes instead of proper 404s ...

Few tasks come as thankless as asking a scientific journal editor to correct a bad study. “I think that it [is] time to stop this never-ending story,” the editor in chief of a diabetes journal told us ...

Refractive errors are common eye issues that can cause blurry or distorted vision. Treatment usually involves wearing glasses or contact lenses or getting procedures ...

Sports are a way of life. From their earliest years, people are enraptured by the competitive spirit — whether that means picking up a ball and practicing to be the best or banding together to support ...

The company’s surface code technique allows its quantum bits to faithfully store and manipulate data for longer, which could pave the way for useful quantum ...

For the first time, a quantum computer has improved its results by repeatedly fixing its own mistakes midcalculation with a technique called quantum error correction ...

Malte Elson is blunt when it comes to science’s ability to self-correct. “The way we currently treat errors doesn’t work,” he says. To prove his point, Elson, a psychologist at the University of Bern, ...