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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The process of independently repeating earlier studies—by interrogating the same research questions, and employing the same or similar methods and data—is broadly considered the cornerstone of science ...

Julie Heng ’24 is a Crimson Editorial editor. Her column runs on alternate Tuesdays. In 2012, the biotechnology firm Amgen attempted to replicate “landmark” research on blood disorders and cancer.

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 ...

Amid an uptick in publications looking to quantify the electronic health record (EHR) workload faced by clinicians, researchers propose three recommendations to ensure the accuracy and replicability ...

A reproducibility crisis is ongoing in scientific research, where many studies may be difficult or impossible to replicate and thereby validate, especially when the study involves a very large sample ...

Roughly two decades ago, a community-wide reckoning emerged concerning the credibility of published literature in the social-behavioral sciences, especially psychology. Several large scale studies ...

Science isn’t facing a reproducibility catastrophe, but the scientific community could take important steps to improve reporting and replicability, according to a new report from the US National ...