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 ...

In 2012, researchers at the U.S. pharmaceutical company Amgen attempted to replicate 53 papers considered 'groundbreaking' in ...

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 ...

Antibodies are foundational tools in modern biology, used in everything from flow cytometry to in vivo depletion studies, yet they are rarely treated as controlled experimental variables. Lot-to-lot ...

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% ...

In a new paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a team of 41 authors from around the globe argue that virtual reality has the potential to do the same for behavioral ...

Survey of more than 1,600 biomedical researchers also flagged small sample sizes and cherry-picking of data as leading causes of reproducibility problems. Nearly three-quarters of biomedical ...

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 ...