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An increased emphasis on falsification - the direct testing of strong hypotheses - will lead to faster progress in science by allowing well-specified hypotheses to be eliminated.
China created a research evaluation system based on publications indexed in the SCI and on the Journal Impact Factor, which helped China become the largest contributor to scientific literature and increase the position of its universities in global rankings.
Researchers say their prototype produces hydrogen with greater than 99% purity and works in air as dry as 4% relative humidity
Opening up about my feelings during my PhD was powerful and cathartic.
An Electronic Frontier Foundation investigation of public records acquired from dozens of state and local law enforcement agencies has uncovered a widely-used mass surveillance technology.
ETH Zurich is opening a new research and teaching centre with a focus on exploring the origin and prevalence of life on Earth and beyond. Under the leadership of Noble Laureate, Didier Queloz, more than 40 research groups from five departments will address the big questions posed by humankind.
A new study provide scientific evidence assessing how effective governments will be at implementing their commitments to the agreement that will reduce CO2 emissions causing climate change.
Fed up with what they saw as inaction by policymakers, three climate change scientists called on their colleagues to withdraw from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reporting process.
Anna Severin explains how her team used machine learning to try to assess the quality of thousands of reviewers' reports.
Lack of free access to research leads to discrimination, both in academia and for us all. The new guidance from the US is a huge step in the right direction.
Scientists can take practical steps to prevent or pre-empt problems on social media.
The European Universities initiative was conceived to develop higher education across the EU, with a tight focus on students and teaching. Higher education institutions from different countries were invited to form alliances and bid for Erasmus + funds to develop joint curricula and boost mobility. But innovation and entrepreneurship increasingly appear in the alliance playbook, particularly when the partners are close to the market.
Postmodern ideas have gained the status of absolute truths. Relativism, selectively appropriated into the language of both left and right politics, has metamorphosed into dogma. As oversimplification distorts communication, public trust in scientific fact has eroded. Could renewed ideas of objectivity be a way out?
Over the past several years, scholars and critics have begun to talk about the survival of the humanities rather than its crisis. This essay traces the emergence of a rhetoric of salvation and survival in academic advocacy literature, evident in the genres, arguments, and metaphors that writers use to describe the academic humanities.
Spain is about to overhaul its research career structures, after the Congress of Deputies approved the final version of a reform to the country's 2011 science, technology and innovation law last week.
A Humanities and Social Sciences Publishing Professionals Community of Interest Network is launching! An interview with facilitators Laura Ansley and Dawn Durante about the group and its focus --and how it's meeting a clear need.
The movement towards open-access scientific publishing got an historic boost this month, with the White House ordering an end to publishers putting most federally funded research behind paywalls.
Genome analysis shows that most Australian rabbits are descendants of wild rabbits shipped to near Melbourne in 1859.
Prehistoric stone circle and 11th-century church uncovered as country's reservoirs hit 36% of normal capacity
The article analyzes what happens when governments use predictive modeling to allocate critical resources.
NPP is committed to consistent and thorough reporting of clinical research which is essential for rigor, reproducibility, transparency, interpretation, and generalizability of published results to the broader human population.
Sustainable use is when biodiversity and ecosystem functioning are maintained while contributing to human wellbeing.
