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The importance of publishing null results

02 Nov 2021 Caitlin Duffy
Taken from the November 2021 issue of Physics World where it appeared under the headline "Learning from your mistakes".

Caitlin Duffy says that physicists must recognize that failure is part and parcel of science

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Shared experience Failed experiments can lead to feelings of guilt or shame, but they can be valuable and worth communicating so that resources aren’t wasted repeating the same mistakes. (Courtesy: iStock/LumiNola)
A colleague and I recently conducted an intricate experiment. It used a 33 T static magnetic field

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Caitlin Duffy is a contributing columnist for Physics World and a postdoc researcher working on correlated electron systems at the Laboratoire National des Champs Magnétiques Intenses (LNCMI) in Toulouse, France.
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