5 rules for good data management in the life sciences Good data partnerships depend on mutual respect, understanding each other’s roles, and strong communication. Marc Galland and Frederike Schmitz Comment 22 Oct 2021
Peer-reviewers twice as likely to accept research conducted on men than the same research on women How biases may play out against female experimental participants. Dalmeet Singh Chawla News 11 May 2021
How COVID-19 could make science kinder Reviewers are providing more constructive feedback in a time of crisis, but how long will it last? Gemma Conroy News 24 Feb 2021
3 ways to make your scientific images accurate, informative and accessible It’s all in the detail, from colour choice to how methods are documented, and everything in between. Andy Tay News 8 Feb 2021
COVID-19: Where is the data? Levels of open data remain stubbornly low, despite efforts to make research publishing more transparent, say Julien Larregue et al. Julien Larregue et al. Comment 22 Dec 2020
The race to the top among the world’s leaders in artificial intelligence As revenues and research output soar in the field of AI, global competition between the United States, China and Europe heats up. Neil Savage News feature 10 Dec 2020
Three reasons to share your research failures There’s a new journal for that. Gemma Conroy News 22 Sep 2020
TOP Factor rates journals on transparency, openness New tool seeks to change editorial practices. Chris Woolston News 18 Feb 2020
Software searches out reproducibility issues in scientific papers Papers are getting more rigorous, but progress is slower than some researchers would like. Dalmeet Singh Chawla News 28 Jan 2020
Psychology looks to physics to solve replication crisis What the CERN of psychology looks like. Jon Brock News 6 Jan 2020
The 10 most common mistakes with statistics, and how to avoid them Significant results are not the only goal. Gemma Conroy Q+A 11 Nov 2019
Q&A: 5 simple ways to make your research more reproducible Small details can make a big difference. Gemma Conroy Q+A 31 Oct 2019
"It’s not a replication crisis. It’s an innovation opportunity" The meaning of failure in science. Jon Brock News feature 28 Oct 2019
How researchers can improve the quality of systematic reviews A guideline to boost transparency is being updated. Jon Brock Q+A 24 Sep 2019
Frequent collaborators are less likely to produce replicable results Stick with who you don't know. Gemma Conroy News 20 Sep 2019
A “petting zoo for code” makes studies easier to reproduce A new tool helps users to compose, compute and publish reproducible articles. Jeffrey M. Perkel Technology feature 18 Jun 2019
High-profile journals put to reproducibility test Researchers replicated 62% of social-behaviour findings published in Science and Nature — a result matched almost exactly by a prediction market. Philip Ball 30 Aug 2018
Q&A Adam Russell: The search for automated tools to rate research reproducibility A US project is exploring the use of software to assign confidence levels to published research. Dalmeet Singh Chawla Q&A 8 Aug 2018
