Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Some research teams work on replicating prior studies to assess the value of a body of work. AzmanL/E+ via Getty Images Back in ...

There's a quiet tension running through modern science. On one side, research institutions and public health agencies lean on ...

The vibrations of the “replication crisis” continue to be felt throughout the social sciences, and particularly within psychology. Being able to replicate findings is among the most fundamental ...

Broad variation in the findings from 73 teams testing the same hypothesis with the same data. The distribution of estimated AMEs across all converged models (n = 1,253) includes results that are ...

How do we know what we know? That’s where science comes in—it gives us a method for testing our ideas and getting trustworthy results. But some researchers have warned that many scientific studies can ...

The vast majority of experimental work in behavioral and biomedical science involves group comparison—in the simplest case, an experimental and a control group. Average data are compared and the ...

A multi-year study of the reliability of published social & behavioral science research has found that only about half of ...

Back in high school chemistry, I remember waiting with my bench partner for crystals to form on our stick in the cup of blue solution. Other groups around us jumped with joy when their crystals formed ...