It has been called “galling” and “worse than we thought.” It risks demolishing the technocratic case for “expertise.” Nearly two decades into science’s replication crisis, have scholars, researchers, ...

In a paper published in PLOS Sustainability and Transformation, an international team of researchers looked at how science could play a more active role in managing crises. The paper builds on the ...

It is the best of times and worst of times to start a science career in the United States. Researchers today have access to powerful new tools and techniques — such as rapid gene sequencers and giant ...

Regarding Richard Monastersky’s “The Real Science Crisis: Bleak Prospects for Young Researchers” (The Chronicle, September 21), I agree with the implications that graduate schools could do more to ...

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Last year, Pew Research reported that only 29% of Americans now are willing to say they have a "great deal of confidence" in medical scientists to act in the best interests of the public. That ...

When does context become bias? It’s a question that engenders anxiety in many scientific disciplines, and with good reason. Information about a patient’s family history may nudge a doctor towards the ...