Rice U. expert: Key is creating ML systems that question their own predictions Rice University statistician Genevera Allen says scientists must keep questioning the accuracy and reproducibil... Read more
One of the recurring media narratives about the nature of science today is that it is “broken” or “in crisis.” In the mainstream press, some stories about the failure to reproduce study resu... Read more
Art advancing science at the nanoscale Like many other scientists, Don Ingber, M.D., Ph.D., the Founding Director of the Wyss Institute, is concerned that non-scientists have become skeptica... Read more
Extent of spin in biomedical scientific papers revealed More than a quarter of biomedical scientific papers may utilise practices that distort the interpretation of results or mislead reader... Read more
Giant pandas. Self-fertilizing plants. People. Lots of species have been proposed as “evolutionary dead ends” (though whether they actually are is another question). And now added to those r... Read more
Half of mouse studies fail to report the sex and age of the models involved A project at The University of Manchester to analyse 15,000 mouse studies – the largest of its kind ever und... Read more
Introducing concept to undergrads could lead to more transparency in science The ability to duplicate an experiment and its results is a central tenet of the scientific method, but recent re... Read more
When putting together a team of scientists to work on a problem, it makes sense to bring together the best and brightest in the field, right? Well, maybe not. In a newly published paper, a t... Read more
Silicon Valley hosts lavish ceremony for Breakthrough prize that aims to give scientists celebrity status and inspire interest in life’s ‘big questions’ Silicon Valley has... Read more