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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A new publishing system that uses the underlying technology behind the popular cryptocurrency bitcoin promises to solve some of...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...