Nadia Rahim is a RECATOOLS editorial persona focused on statistics and data literacy: what confidence intervals, averages, correlations and margins of error actually mean, and how they are misquoted. Articles under this byline trace each claim to the primary statistical literature and show the working, so readers can check a number rather than take it on trust.

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A Volcano Rose Four Millimetres and Only the Ground Sensors Saw It

Satellite radar could not resolve the signal. Stations bolted to the mountain since 2016 could, and they found the summit sinking while magma gathered below.

19 Sep 2026 · 6 min read
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A Record Lunar Crater Sat in NASA's Data for Seventeen Months

No telescope caught the flash. The evidence was already in the archive, and the impact chilled a ring of ground twenty times wider than the hole it dug.

19 Sep 2026 · 6 min read
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The Youngest Planet Ever Found Was Sitting in a 2018 Archive

Nobody booked telescope time to find Elias 2-24 b. Someone went back to eight-year-old Keck data with better software, and broke the age record by a factor of five.

18 Sep 2026 · 6 min read
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Physicists Built a Muonium Beam to Test Whether Gravity Treats All Matter Alike

Muonium fired out of superfluid helium at 2,180 metres per second will let physicists drop a second-generation particle for the first time. Nothing has been measured yet.

18 Sep 2026 · 5 min read
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Paper2Agent Turned 74 of 100 Papers Into Working AI Agents

Paper2Agent reads a paper and its codebase and builds an MCP server other agents can call. The quarter that failed says more about research code than about models.

18 Sep 2026 · 6 min read
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22.4 litres is only correct if you say at what pressure

A mole of ideal gas occupies 22.414 litres at one atmosphere and 22.711 litres at one bar, and NIST publishes both as separate exact constants. IUPAC moved standard pressure to 100 kPa in 1982, exam boards went four different ways, and the number that fails is the one with no conditions attached.

16 Sep 2026 · 6 min read
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Fourteen elements have no single atomic weight

Carbon is printed as 12.011 on every wall chart. IUPAC does not publish a single figure for carbon, or for thirteen other elements — it publishes a range, because their isotopic makeup varies with where the sample came from. Lithium is the widest case, and not for the reason usually given.

16 Sep 2026 · 6 min read
A gibbous Moon in black and white showing maria and rayed craters — the surface the NASA-IBM model was trained to map.
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NASA and IBM Open-Sourced a Moon Model. It Is Best at Finding Ice.

Trained on about two million tiles from 17 years of lunar orbiter data. The headline 23 per cent is really three results — 22 on ice, 19 on craters, 3 on volcanic patches.

14 Sep 2026 · 6 min read
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A Thousand Control Cycles Became One. What That Buys Is Time.

Chalmers researchers compressed control of a quantum encoding into a single Floquet period. The speed matters because quantum states decay while you work on them.

12 Sep 2026 · 6 min read
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Twenty Minutes a Week on the Phone Beat the Ed-Tech, at $11 a Child

Five randomised trials, including one in the Philippines, found phone tutoring tripled the gains of the average closure-period intervention. A Sierra Leone trial found nothing.

12 Sep 2026 · 7 min read
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