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 ...

A European project calls for help to verify whether carbon quantum dots are really able to sense chemicals in cells.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Is psychology facing a ‘replication crisis’? Last year, a crowdsourced effort that was able to validate fewer than half of 98 published findings 1 rang alarm bells about the reliability of psychology ...

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 ...