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My uncle immigrated to the United States in 1956 with no assets, a brilliant mind, ambition, and a faith that America was a great country of opportunity. He escaped from Hungary, a country of communists, at the time a source of great fear among many US politicians. If the US President at his time were making policy similar to our President today, my uncle would’ve never been allowed in the US.
Who could object to calls for basing government regulations on the "best available science"? But in Washington, D.C., the phrase has become code for a contentious debate surrounding federal regulatory agencies.
New techniques being used to produce our food or shape the environment raise regulatory questions.
Popular leader will be forced to retire at 65 — but senior staff have other ideas.
An open access repository of science methods and collaborative research platform.
A beautiful new way to create and share research figures.
How a seemingly innocent blog post led to serious doubts about Cornell’s famous food laboratory.
Last month I found myself sitting on a leather couch, my black dress smoothed over my knees, in a hushed wood-paneled room in Washington, D.C.
Steve Keen laments loss of ‘time and freedom’ for universities’ ‘original thinkers’
Many bibliometricians and university administrators remain wary of Google Scholar citation data, preferring “the gold standard” of Web of Science instead.
The outline cuts at least $7 billion for research on climate change, diseases, and energy.
Private funding isn't enough to offset the president's proposed budget cuts, they say.
Revised text of a talk given by the Director of Libraries at MIT.
Very few academics do a great deal to share their often important and relevant research with the general public. What's holding them back?
Tech companies are spending hundreds of millions of dollars to improve conditions for female employees. Here’s why not much has changed—and what might actually work.
The Commission wants to knit existing data infrastructures into a shared pan European resource.
As the European Research Council celebrates its 10-year anniversary, three Starting Grant awardees describe their career paths.
We asked three experts for their takes.
Misconduct in academia isn’t rampant but should be taken more seriously: let’s consider independent anti-corruption units
The Nature journals continue journey towards greater rigour.
A few months ago, Stephen Heard wrote a blog post that prompted us to have a brief twitter discussion on whether we sign our reviews.
