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Strong evidence of life on exoplanet K2-18b turns out to be not so strong after all

Researchers at Cambridge University made a big splash in April last year when they announced that they had strong evidence ...
eLife

A retrospective analysis of 400 publications reveals patterns of irreproducibility across an entire life sciences research field

The ReproSci project retrospectively analyzed the reproducibility of 1006 claims from 400 papers published between 1959 and 2011 in the field of Drosophila immunity. This project attempts to provide a ...