• Email Bluesky Facebook LinkedIn Reddit Whatsapp X Credit: Olga Yastremska/Alamy Calling nanoscientists: your field needs you to try to replicate a landmark finding that quantum dots can act as biosensors inside living cells. • As part of the first large-scale effort in the physical sciences to tackle the reproducibility crisis, researchers in France and the Netherlands are offering funds and resources in exchange for a few months of work. • “We are trying to use replication as a tool to solve a controversy or, you know, to get closer to the truth,” says Raphaël Lévy, a physicist at Sorbonne Paris North University, whoco-leads a European projectcalled NanoBubbles, which focuses on self-correction in science. • The project - named after bubbles of misinformation that can form when bad science is left uncorrected - made itscall for helpon 11 February. • The appeal comes as separate research groups in psychology and the social sciences prepare to offer updates on their own large-scale replication efforts - prompted by the large number ofscientific results that can’t be repeatedwhen others run the same tests. • Sometimes, these trials check that the data reported in published papers justify the results and conclusions.
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