The open-science movement has promoted the sharing of scientific protocols, statistical-analysis programs and data files. These efforts have undoubtedly made it easier to see how researchers come to ...

Matthew Hutson is a science writer based in New York City. In early October, as the Nobel Foundation announced the recipients of this year’s Nobel prizes, a group of researchers, including a previous ...

Imagine a researcher with a groundbreaking hypothesis, but the journey from validation to publication can be long and arduous, often taking months or even years. The traditional research cycle, with ...

In late November, some ChatGPT users began to notice that ChatGPT-4 was becoming more “lazy,” reportedly refusing to do some tasks or returning simplified results. Since then, OpenAI has admitted that ...

Researchers have some new evidence about what makes birds make so much noise early in the morning, and it's not for some of the reasons they previously thought. For decades, a dominant theory about ...

Clinical researchers, with or without a statistical background, will find this book an invaluable aid in understanding the statistical methods cited most frequently in clinical protocols, statistical ...