We need to talk about failure in science

You have full access to this article via your institution. A failed experiment shouldn’t mean the end of a project, or affect a researcher’s future grant opportunities. Credit: Getty Last week, Imperial College London, in collaboration with Nature , hosted a conference on a subject that’s rarely talked about in science: failure . The success of a conference on failure didn’t go unremarked, but beyond the meta-humour there was plenty of opportunity for serious discussions. …