Category: Science and Nature

  • Reproducibility trial: 246 biologists get different results from same data sets

    Reproducibility trial: 246 biologists get different results from same data sets

    Scientists who ran separate analyses on a single data set about the effect of grass cover on Eucalyptus seedlings arrived at vastly different answers.Credit: Laurence Dutton/Getty In a massive exercise to examine reproducibility, more than 200 biologists analysed the same sets of ecological data — and got widely divergent results. The first sweeping study1 of…

  • Reproducibility trial: 246 biologists get different results from same data sets

    Reproducibility trial: 246 biologists get different results from same data sets

    Scientists who ran separate analyses on a single data set about the effect of grass cover on Eucalyptus seedlings arrived at vastly different answers.Credit: Laurence Dutton/Getty In a massive exercise to examine reproducibility, more than 200 biologists analysed the same sets of ecological data — and got widely divergent results. The first sweeping study1 of…

  • Achieving UN climate goals needs purposeful, persistent action from science

    Achieving UN climate goals needs purposeful, persistent action from science

    A Canadair firefighting plane sprays water during a fire in Dervenochoria, northwest of Athens, in July.Credit: Spyros Bakalis/AFP via Getty When it comes to the alarmingly slow progress that the world is making towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) — United Nations targets set in 2015 to end poverty, achieve equality and protect the environment…

  • Achieving UN climate goals needs purposeful, persistent action from science

    Achieving UN climate goals needs purposeful, persistent action from science

    A Canadair firefighting plane sprays water during a fire in Dervenochoria, northwest of Athens, in July.Credit: Spyros Bakalis/AFP via Getty When it comes to the alarmingly slow progress that the world is making towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) — United Nations targets set in 2015 to end poverty, achieve equality and protect the environment…

  • AI and science: what 1,600 researchers think

    AI and science: what 1,600 researchers think

    Illustration by Acapulco Studio Artificial-intelligence (AI) tools are becoming increasingly common in science, and many scientists anticipate that they will soon be central to the practice of research, suggests a Nature survey of more than 1,600 researchers around the world. Science and the new age of AI: a Nature special When respondents were asked how…

  • AI and science: what 1,600 researchers think

    AI and science: what 1,600 researchers think

    Illustration by Acapulco Studio Artificial-intelligence (AI) tools are becoming increasingly common in science, and many scientists anticipate that they will soon be central to the practice of research, suggests a Nature survey of more than 1,600 researchers around the world. Science and the new age of AI: a Nature special When respondents were asked how…