Replicabillity — the ability to obtain the same result when an experiment is repeated — is foundational to science. But in many research fields it has proved difficult to achieve. An important and ...

At this point, it is hardly a surprise to learn that even top scientific journals publish a lot of low-quality work — not just solid experiments that happen, by bad luck, to have yielded conclusions ...

After eight years, a project that tried to reproduce the results of key cancer biology studies has finally concluded. And its findings suggest that like research in the social sciences, cancer ...

Over the past several decades, the lack of reproducibility in biomedical research has become increasingly concerning, particularly in the drug development process. The study of science has undergone a ...