As the result of a mandate from Congress, the National Academies will explore the issues of reproducibility and replication in scientific and engineering research. The committee will explore what is ...

Imagine giving one recipe to 10 different chefs and getting 10 completely different results. This inconsistency could be due to any number of factors — variables that cannot be controlled, omission of ...

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Researchers have discovered another factor that affects the composition of the gut microbiome: time of day. Our bodies are inhabited by trillions of microorganisms, with specific microbes unique to ...

An in-depth examination of a 2015 landmark study showing that more than half of all psychology studies cannot be replicated has revealed serious mistakes that make its pessimistic conclusion ...

Last August, I wrote about a large initiative called the Reproducibility Project, led by Brian Nosek from the University of Virginia. The project members collectively repeated 100 published ...

Researchers report that an artificial intelligence model for estimating the replicability of scientific studies based on the articles' text and reported statistics, such as effect sizes, performed ...

Our bodies are inhabited by trillions of microorganisms, with specific microbes unique to each individual. Through experimentation, scientists have pinpointed certain factors that account for ...