I once had the opportunity to have lunch with Nobelist Murray Gell-Mann at a US National Academy of Sciences meeting. Gell-Mann’s many notable breakthroughs are crowned by his discovery of quarks, an ...

Reproducibility builds trust in science; it enables science to be progressive and it ensures scientific research can have a meaningful impact on our world. Sadly, evidence indicates that we are facing ...

Nature polled bench scientists to find out what they thought about the much-discussed crisis of reproducibility in published scientific reports. What does it take to stop the sale of snake oil? Share ...

72% of participants agreed there was a reproducibility crisis in biomedicine, with 27% of participants indicating the crisis was “significant.” The leading perceived cause of irreproducibility was a ...

Nearly three-quarters of biomedical researchers think there is a reproducibility crisis in science, according to a survey published in November. The leading cause cited for that crisis was “pressure ...

These inconsistencies between reagents can introduce experimental noise that may be difficult to detect or account for during study replication. In many cases, a failure to replicate findings may ...

Science is in a reproducibility crisis, according to officials at recently launched Briefly Bio, which is headquartered in London. They add that in preclinical research, it’s estimated that over 50% ...

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Philosophy of science is often dismissed as useless by practicing scientists. From young researchers scrambling to get tenure or finish a dissertation, to industry scientists buried under a mountain ...

A meadow grasshopper (Pseudochorthippus parallelus). This species is widespread across most of Europe and is commonly used as a model organism in evolutionary biology. If an experiment is repeated ...