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Some scholars add authors to their research papers or grant proposals even when those individuals contribute nothing to the research effort.
Everipedia, a two-year-old online encyclopedia, will become a decentralized, peer-to-peer, user-owned resource.
Opinion pieces that “represent the viewpoint of an individual” and offer hypotheses without testing them are the opposite of science.
"…cultural change rests with individual scientists, teams, and professional societies."
Negotiations to reduce journal prices and promote open access are progressing slowly.
Algorithms made him a Wall Street billionaire. His new research center helps scientists mine data for the common good.
As a new president takes office, scientists in the country and beyond should urge the administration to make science a priority, says Dexter Tagwireyi.
Arxiv Vanity renders academic papers from arXiv as responsive web pages so you don’t have to squint at a PDF.
In an open letter scientometricians make a call to scholarly publishers to make the reference lists of the articles they publish openly available.
Leonard Freedman, president of the Global Biological Standards Institute, discusses the causes of irreproducible science and his latest effort to spread best practices.
Research practices, quality in research and researcher commitment are among the topics covered in this inspiring interview.
Government policies overshadow AI’s biggest gathering.
Celebrating the power of photography to communicate science and the role great images play in making science accessible to a wide audience.
AI tools could help us turn information gleaned from genetic sequencing into life-saving therapies.
Scholars push for free access to online citation data, saying they need and deserve access to the reference data they helped create.
We wish to answer this question: If you observe a ‘significant’ p -value after doing a single unbiased experiment, what is the probability that your result is a false positive?
In trying to thwart predators, the government is penalizing researchers who publish in genuine open-access journals.
A push to reverse its brain drain is providing the expertise to tackle its domestic problems.
We might hope for a better future where everyone acts professionally, but we should be realistic about the flaws of our human nature. Opinion piece by Stephen Curry.
The latest 2016 Canadian census information was released this week. Lots of statistics relating to labour, education, commutes to work and migration, among other things.
A Nobel Laureate has retracted a 2016 paper in Nature Chemistry that explored the origins of life on earth, after discovering the main conclusions were not correct.
The digital currency is slowing our effort to achieve a rapid transition away from fossil fuels.
