Researchers are getting better at communicating science in a rigorous and reproducible way, according to a text-mining analysis of around 1.6 million papers....

In 2008, psychologists proposed that when humans are shown an unfamiliar face, they judge it on two main dimensions: trustworthiness and physical strength. T...

You may not believe what you believed before. It might feel as if you’ve squandered your grant money on research that you no longer stand by, but that’s okay...

The use of scientific methodology to study science itself is called metascience. The discipline, which has become mainstream in recent years, got a new boost...

A project aiming to reproduce dozens of biochemistry experiments originally conducted in Brazil is set to commence this month. The full article was published...

Misuse of commonly used statistical methods have for long plagued scholarly research, resulting in big claims being drawn from weak evidence. Now, the Americ...

Every year, people at hundreds of schools and workplaces around the world are taught how to stand like Superman. The rationale behind this is that the way on...

Recently the United States Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) solicited research proposals on developing automated tools that assign confidenc...

I spoke to Heather Goldstone of Living Lab Radio about the Loss of Confidence project, which I recently wrote a feature article about for Undark Magazine. IM...

Many areas of science are facing questions over the reproducibility of findings reported in scholarly literature. Researchers haven't always been the best at...

Scientific literature is in a sorry state of affairs. More and more research is being published every year, while widespread concerns about its credibility r...

The web is fragile. In March 2016, software developer Azer Koçulu famously broke the internet by taking 11 lines of open source computer code he had written ...

A new publishing system that uses the underlying technology behind the popular cryptocurrency bitcoin promises to solve some of academia’s thorniest problems...

A new online tool unveiled 19 January measures the reproducibility of published scientific papers by analyzing data about articles that cite them. The full s...

When Dutch researchers developed an open-source algorithm designed to flag statistical errors in psychology papers, it received mixed reaction from the resea...

A study of how people perceive human faces will kick off a new initiative to massively scale up, accelerate, and reproduce psychology studies. The whole arti...

I was invited to Science Friday to talk about the recent debate around lowering p-value thresholds. Listen to the podcast here. I originally reported on this...

A newly proposed, citation-based metric assesses the veracity of scientific claims by evaluating the outcomes of subsequent replication attempts. The full st...

Researchers are proposing ways to make scientific texts clearer amid concerns that scholarly literature is getting harder to read. The full story was publish...

Researchers are at odds over when to dub a discovery 'significant'. In July, 72 researchers took aim at the P value, calling for a lower threshold for the po...