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The pre-print database for scientists to test the peer-review waters was set up in 1991 as a relatively simple electronic bulletin board on a single computer. Twenty-six years later, the site arXiv.org has surpassed a full billion downloads of papers and receives more than 10 million submissions each month.
There is no shortage of problems facing humankind. What role science has in tackling them has long been debated.
Ultimately, the power to enforce change resides in the hands of scientists.
For science to progress, we have to accept the inevitability of error.
Rogier Creemers advises early career academics to be ruthless and put themselves first to move up the ladder.
Maryam Mirzakhani was a mathematician, but worked like an artist, always drawing.
The goal is to customize treatments for cancer and other diseases to a patient's own biology. But something as simple as failing to take care of tissue samples en route to the lab can derail that.
There have been two distinct responses to the replication crisis – by instituting measures like registered reports and by making data openly available. But another group continues to remain in denial.
They’re not hiding behind language - they’re acting in plain sight.
Towards a fully-fledged policy proposal, including issues of cost and fairness.
Ensuring appropriate credit and recognition in increasingly collaborative research involving multiple investigators and research groups.
Lucy Patterson reports back from Science Hack Day Berlin.
Initiatives are in place to keep early-career investigators in the biomedical system, but more support is needed.
Scientists and career experts reveal how to take your job to the next level.
Thomas Bayes had the right idea: Even scientific laws can benefit from an update.
The stigma has a punitive effect on citations for prior collaborators of fraudulent researchers.
The National Institutes of Health will again fund research that makes viruses more dangerous.
This advice is both hyperbolic and not nearly as crazy as it sounds.
ERCcOMICS is a creative and ambitious project which exploits the power of visual storytelling to innovate the way European science is communicated.
