Even after decades of study, scientists are still divided on what drives diseases such as Alzheimer’s. Why? Turns out, the literature is littered with different hypotheses, some pointing in different ...

Independent verification of data is a cornerstone of scientific research. The scientific method relies on reproducibility to validate findings and build upon existing work. Ideally, researchers should ...

Over the last few centuries, the scientific method has established itself as a pretty useful tool. A key facet of scientific methodology is reproducibility. Essentially, good science should be easily ...

Reproducibility is fundamental to science. Yet digital technology casts an increasingly long shadow on the principle. When independent investigators examine studies, they are unable to validate about ...

Clarissa Carneiro, a meta scientist and currently the co-executive director at the Brazilian Reproducibility Network, experienced the reproducibility challenge firsthand. As an undergraduate student ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) has made exciting strides in healthcare, with the potential to offer faster diagnoses, new therapeutic discoveries, and cost-saving efficiencies. Yet, behind the headlines ...

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 ...

Recognising the perceived poor levels of research reproducibility, the TIER2 project has set out to investigate reproducibility challenges across scientific domains in order to enhance trust, ...