Errors can be prevented from reoccurring by requiring publication of study data (without identifying details) and via replication and reevaluation studies In 1998, an author published a well-known ...

Replications, that is the repeated testing of previously published claims, should be the foundation for cumulative and quantitative science but they are not. We are here to change this. If you seek to ...

Ongoing research aims to confirm the mechanism by which ICP4 fluidizes the nucleus, which could indicate specific targets to counter viral replication.

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

The reproducibility crisis imposes new challenges for the scientific community, but what are the obligations of journals in solving the problem? Decades of challenging research during the 1900s ...

On Monday, the journal Nature released a report from Nanjing University researchers that had attempted to replicate an earlier paper that described a compound that superconducted at room temperature ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the broad intersection of data and society. It is the latter – the data mining of commercially available and open ...

Brian A. Nosek is co-founder and executive director of the Center for Open Science, Charlottesville, Virginia; and professor of psychology at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA. The two ...