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

‘A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new...

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...

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...

Attempts to explain the findings of observational studies might lead readers to confuse correlation with causation. The full article was published in Signifi...

An unorthodox new astronomy journal is geared toward short, succinct updates of work in progress. Research Notes of the American Astronomical Society (RNAAS)...

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...

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...

Science is in the throes of a reproducibility crisis, and researchers, funders and publishers are increasingly worried that the scholarly literature is litte...

A popular theory suggesting people perceive others wearing red as more attractive has come under fire. Read the full article at Slate magazine. IMAGE: Kevin ...

Analytical techniques of four studies by a prominent Cornell University researcher came into question after the scientist blogged about the processes. Eventu...