Pietro Barabaschi, Director General of ITER, calls for measures and incentives to carefully document the entire research process, including dead ends and failures, instead of reporting just the successful final results.
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Barabaschi, P. The importance of documenting failure. Nat Rev Phys 6, 284–285 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42254-024-00702-7
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