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 ...

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 ...

Problems with reproducibility arise when important factors influencing reaction outcomes aren’t sufficiently documented. Chemists are coming together as a community to establish best practices for ...

A recent study provides evidence that some results of behavioral experiments with insects cannot be fully reproduced. So far, possible reproducibility problems have been little discussed in this ...

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 ...

Recent years have seen perceptions of a “reproducibility crisis” grow in various disciplines. Scientists see poor levels of research reproducibility as a severe threat to scientific self-correction, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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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 ...

Back in high school chemistry, I remember waiting with my bench partner for crystals to form on our stick in the cup of blue solution. Other groups around us jumped with joy when their crystals formed ...