A European project calls for help to verify whether carbon quantum dots are really able to sense chemicals in cells.

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% ...

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 ...

If an experiment is repeated under similar conditions, the results should be the same. In reality, the situation is often different—scientists speak of a "reproducibility crisis," which affects ...

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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 ...

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 ...