Reproducibility is fundamental to science. Yet digital technology casts an increasingly long shadow on the principle. When independent investigators examine studies, they are unable to validate about ...

Recent decades have seen ever louder calls for improved study design and reproducibility standards in animal research. This stems from wider discussions across the scientific community about the ...

Recent years have seen perceptions of a “reproducibility crisis” grow in various disciplines. Scientists see poor levels of research reproducibility as a severe threat to scientific self-correction, ...

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Clarissa Carneiro, a meta scientist and currently the co-executive director at the Brazilian Reproducibility Network, experienced the reproducibility challenge firsthand. As an undergraduate student ...

Science Exchange, in partnership with the open-access publisher PLoS and open data repository figshare, announced today the launch of the Reproducibility Initiative – a new program to help scientists, ...

Science isn’t facing a reproducibility catastrophe, but the scientific community could take important steps to improve reporting and replicability, according to a new report from the US National ...

Many systems like autonomous vehicle fleets and drone swarms can be modeled as Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) tasks, which deal with how multiple machines can learn to collaborate, ...

The ability to replicate research findings remains a mainstay of the scientific process, allowing experts to assess and challenge an evolving evidence base. But a growing body of research shows that ...

Scientists and drug developers are always looking for new ways to hit cancer where it hurts. Recently, they’ve been focusing on metabolic pathways—how cancer cells hijack cells to support their own ...

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 ...