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The hidden sustainability cost of the reproducibility crisis

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Reproducibility is known to be one of the biggest issues facing science today — but what is less discussed is its connection to science’s environmental impact, as experiments that aren’t replicable still consume resources. Joanna Marshall-Cook and Martin Farley describe processes that can both improve sustainability in science and help tackle the reproducibility crisis.

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Fig. 1: Percentages of 1,576 surveyed scientists who had ever failed to reproduce an experiment.

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    Joanna Marshall-Cook & Martin Farley

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Marshall-Cook, J., Farley, M. The hidden sustainability cost of the reproducibility crisis. Nat Rev Phys 6, 4–5 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42254-023-00674-0

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