For the same reasons that chef Gordon Ramsay likes to clean a kitchen before improving it, science needs to get a handle on what existing findings are reliable before we can build on them.

By overlooking these variables, his conclusions may well be overstated. It’s no surprise that social science findings might turn out to be less reliable than those in the natural sciences. After all, ...

Researchers developed a faster, more stable way to simulate the swirling electric fields inside industrial plasmas -- the kind used to make microchips and coat materials. The improved method could ...

They include the Surgeon General, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), departments and agencies such as Health and Human Services (HHS), Centers for Disease Control and ...