A research team at the University of Vienna, led by pharmaceutical chemist Johannes Kirchmair, has developed a statistical ...

Everyone knows that The Scientific Method is the key to doing science. No-one's quite sure what it is, but they know it's there, and it's something rather special. It's not. When scientists sit down ...

Large-scale randomized experiments involving millions of observations have transformed social science across academic and applied domains. These methods are now widely used in fields ranging from ...

Relegating the Methods section to the end of research papers undermines scientific appraisal. It is time to return to the ...

What is science? It’s the methodical investigation of the natural world. Here, a geologist obtains a sample of molten lava. Image via Bob Tilling/ USGS (PDM 1.0). Science is a way of learning about ...