A replicate is a repeated run of an experiment, intended for determining precision. There are a few different types of ...

Many refinements of statistical design have been offered to solve the replication problem identified by the Open Science Collaboration and Camerer and colleagues. There are, however, two distinct ...

After eight years, a project that tried to reproduce the results of key cancer biology studies has finally concluded. And its findings suggest that like research in the social sciences, cancer ...

A new study lays out a bit of a conundrum in its opening paragraphs. It notes that scientific progress depends on the ability to update what ideas are considered acceptable in light of new evidence.

Physicists at Los Alamos National Laboratory have successfully recreated a long-overlooked experiment from 1938 — one that could play a crucial role in powering our planet with clean energy. As ...