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A "completely confusing statement" in a gazette notification has scientists wondering which of their papers will and won't be considered towards their promotions in the future.
DFG approved the funding of 17 high-performance electron microscopes with a total sum of €43 million. Funding for seven microscopes, amounting to €24 million, was awarded in the spring.
Philanthropy’s no replacement for crucial government science funding, but that message can get lost amid the high-profile gifts. Some science funders are now backing a push to protect federal funding.
Staid and conformist, science risks losing its creative spark. Does it need more mavericks, or are they part of the problem?
My PhD thesis research was a dead end, but that’s why it was important.
Unsurprisingly, many — if not most — scientists aren’t great at science communication.
An article considering both the efficacy and ethics of piracy, placing ‘guerrilla open access’ within a longer history of piracy and access to knowledge.
Fraudulent research and faked peer reviews have led to a humiliating setback for China's goal of becoming a global leader in scientific research.
Evolutionary differences blamed for squeezing out female researchers.
The philosophy behind the Registered Report format is that the intrinsic value of science is in the rigor of the method, not the appeal of the results.
AI is only loosely modeled on the brain. So what if you wanted to do it right? You’d need to do what has been impossible until now: map what actually happens in neurons and nerve fibers.
This first-of-a-kind report from Knowledge Exchange maps the landscape for Open Access books in the Knowledge Exchange countries; Finland, Netherlands, UK, France, Denmark and Germany, together with Norway and Austria.
Professors and aspiring professors are complicit in perpetuating a rigged system.
Cost-neutral extension of the existing Springer contracts by one year.
German libraries and universities want all German-authored papers to be freely available worldwide.
Looking at some of the issues around the reuse of scientific data and open a conversation about how to deal with them.
Increasing portability, scaling, reproducibility, and convenience of R users and developers.
Opening up science so that all stages of the process can benefit from better interaction and communication and to provide examples for early career scientists writing grants.
When a scientific paper is retracted, it can produce long-term aftershocks.
Publons new Review Distribution Index reveals that a small proportion of reviewers do the lion's share of the peer review.
Non-profit is not synonymous with good, and for-profit is not synonymous with exploitation.
How Anne Wojcicki led her company from the brink of failure to scientific pre-eminence.
Take-down notices “imminent” as lawsuit is filed alleging widespread copyright infringement.
In order to tempt nuclear scientists from countries such as Iran or North Korea to defect, US spy agencies routinely send agents to academic conferences – or even host their own fake ones.
Many of the important papers penned by the chemistry laureates are not freely accessible.
Emerging technologies making computational reproducibility practical in both time and effort.
One prominent research journal just updated its description to explain why it won’t be perfect—and that’s great.
Biologists are posting unreviewed papers in record numbers. Here's a survival guide.
