For a long time now, researchers have been debating this aspect under the heading "reproducibility crisis." Behavioural scientists at the University of Münster have now been able to demonstrate that a ...

A meadow grasshopper (Pseudochorthippus parallelus). This species is widespread across most of Europe and is commonly used as a model organism in evolutionary biology. If an experiment is repeated ...

"If researchers want to build on knowledge, they should be able to replicate results to fully comprehend the research that has been done before," says Daniel J. Stekhoven, Ph.D., director of NEXUS ...

Repeatability vs. reproducibility, which should you use? Repeatability and reproducibility are two ways that scientists and ...

For more than ten years now, scientists have been discussing the so-called reproducibility crisis: often, scientific findings cannot be reproduced at a later time and/or in other laboratories, ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American There are lots of ways to mess with the heads ...

Replication is something of a litmus test for scientific truth, and cancer biologists at the Center for Open Science wanted to see just how many of cancer’s most influential experiments stood up to it ...

The Number One confounding factor in animal research is the person conducting the experiment. Behavioral biologists examined this factor in behavioral experiments involving mice at different locations ...