Humans
Stuart Ritchie interview: A deep rot is turning science into fiction
The systems of science are perpetuating bias, hype, negligence and fraud – and this means far too many findings are worthless, says psychologist Stuart Ritchie
Features
Physics
Half of Nobel prizes in science go to just five research fields
News
Humans
How to sniff out the good coronavirus studies from the bad
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Health
How the covid-19 pandemic has led to a flood of misleading science
News
Physics
Correlation or causation? Mathematics can finally give us an answer
Features
Humans
How I went from selling MDMA to researching the science of its effects
Regulars
Humans
I scanned thousands of research images by eye to expose academic fraud
Regulars
Humans
Harsh peer reviewer comments disproportionately affect minorities
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Technology
Revealed: Details of Dominic Cummings’ plan for new UK research agency
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Humans
Science’s fake news problem: How funding pressures drive bad research
A productivity-driven funding culture has allowed sloppy science to flourish – but now some researchers are fighting back, says Clare Wilson
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Humans
Ethnic minority academics get less UK research funding
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Environment
Naomi Oreskes asks “why trust science” in an age of denialism
Culture
Life
Are experiments on how animals think ever justified?
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Comment
Longer life, flying, mind-bending drugs: Dreams that science made real
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