The scientific paper—the actual form of it—was one of the enabling inventions of modernity. Before it was developed in the 1600s, results were communicated privately in letters, ephemerally in ...

President Donald Trump’s executive order “ Restoring Gold Standard Science ” provides a directive to restore a higher ...

Three new papers published today confirm this, by illustrating just how easily we can be misled by what we think we know, and just how much the power of the scientific method can safeguard us from ...

This was unreplicable for several reasons. First, "prisoners" were not protected from the "guards," which cannot be allowed ...

The result of this process is that virtually every scientific paper has a title, abstract, introduction, materials and methods, results and discussion. It should, however, be noted that most ...

Aston University biostatistician Dr. Dan Green has identified the top ten errors he commonly sees in research papers in his work as a statistical reviewer for scientific and medical journals.

A computer model created by researchers can detect ChatGPT-generated fake studies more than 99% of the time, a new study shows.

Even then, the retraction rate in each of these countries was below one in 330 papers. Scientific research is messy. The scientific method provides guardrails around it. There is nothing wrong with ...