On 2 July, a science initiative was born in a lecture hall in London. The Metascience Alliance is a coalition of more than 25 funders, academic groups, companies and other institutions that pursue ...

The effect is called ‘verbal overshadowing’ and its discovery proved controversial, and not simply because of what it means for detectives. Over the years, other researchers (myself included) have had ...

The reproducibility crisis may have caused a tsunami of doubt across peers, politicians and the public, but has also made way for the growth of metascience. Metascience is defined as the “inquiry into ...