A new paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) proposes a systems-level framework for evaluating the trustworthiness of research findings across methods and ...

Ambika Grover ‘27, a Crimson Editorial Editor, is a joint concentrator in Molecular & Cellular Biology and Statistics in Leverett House and a student researcher in the Patel Lab. Recent cases of ...

Scrolling through social media, you may have dallied on reels of Leonardo DiCaprio dancing or Tom Cruise crooning, only to realize they’re spoofs created with artificial intelligence. Hyper-realistic ...

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On 2 July, a science initiative was born in a lecture hall in London. The Metascience Alliance is a coalition of more than 25 funders, academic groups, companies and other institutions that pursue ...

John Ioannidis, the leader of the metascience discipline that researches the causes of the scientific irreproducibility crisis, recently has been the subject of a series of attacks from one Jonathan ...

The UK government’s metascience unit, launched last year, released its first results on June 30. The findings include a successful trial of so-called distributed peer review. Distributed peer review ...

From an innovative (and subsequently controversial) opening ceremony to shattered world records across the sports spectrum, the Paris Olympics have marked a celebratory return to the Games we knew and ...

With the launch of a metascience unit late last year, the United Kingdom became one of the first countries to formalize the practice of using scientific methodology to study how research is done. The ...

From ancient Greek soapbox soliloquies to viral TikTok videos of poetry slams, spoken word has always charged language with kinetic immediacy. Encompassing a unique blend of honesty and an engaging ...