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This Young Scientist Retracted a Paper. And It Didn't Hurt His Career

This Young Scientist Retracted a Paper. And It Didn't Hurt His Career

Despite the typical stigma of retracting a scientific paper, Nathan Georgette is doing just fine — serving as a model to those many decades his senior.

Trump's Budget Director Pick: "Do We Really Need Government-Funded Research at All"

Trump's Budget Director Pick: "Do We Really Need Government-Funded Research at All"

Mick Mulvaney suggested Zika science is uncertain, so we shouldn’t bother to fund it.

AAAS CEO to Young Scientists: Speak Up. Keep Focused. Carry On.

AAAS CEO to Young Scientists: Speak Up. Keep Focused. Carry On.

Rush Holt, former Congressman, physicist and CEO of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), explains how scientists should move forward under the Trump Administration.

Top 16 Research Tools of 2016

Top 16 Research Tools of 2016

A roundup of the top trending online tools of 2016 that were most appreciated and used by the LabWorm community.

Who Will Be The Next Director of the NIH?

Who Will Be The Next Director of the NIH?

This January will not only mark a new year but a new administration and with that over 4000 new presidential appointees across the federal government.  One appointment that has the potential to either hinder or benefit the biomedical research community is that of the director of the National Institutes of Health.

Swiss Scientists to Regain Full Access to EU Research Programmes

Swiss Scientists to Regain Full Access to EU Research Programmes

Political compromise settles immigration row that could have severed Swiss–EU research agreements.

Scientists Need to Wake Up to the Opportunities of Brexit

Scientists Need to Wake Up to the Opportunities of Brexit

It’s easy for UK researchers to focus on the downsides of leaving the EU. A House of Lords report today calls for a more positive approach.

Swiss Survey Highlights Potential Flaws in Animal Studies

Swiss Survey Highlights Potential Flaws in Animal Studies

Poor experimental design and statistical analysis could contribute to widespread problems in reproducing preclinical animal experiments.

Obama’s Outgoing Science Advisor Will Keep Watch in 2017

Obama’s Outgoing Science Advisor Will Keep Watch in 2017

Having a science-minded voice in the new president’s ear could potentially mediate some of Trump’s anti-science attitudes.

Let's Speed Up Science by Embracing Open Access Publishing

Let's Speed Up Science by Embracing Open Access Publishing

Open access publishing that permits commercial reuse enables the kinds of public-private partnerships that are essential to scientific innovation.

Researchers Anxiously Await Trump’s Pick for Science Adviser

Researchers Anxiously Await Trump’s Pick for Science Adviser

Trump’s timing on science jobs not unusual for presidents.

McGill Neurology Will No Longer Patent Researchers' Findings, Instead Everything Will Be Open Access

McGill Neurology Will No Longer Patent Researchers' Findings, Instead Everything Will Be Open Access

McGill's Neurological Institute open science agenda includes open access publication of all research data and findings, and an end to the practice of patenting the university's findings.

McKinsey's 2016 Analytics Study Defines The Future Of Machine Learning

McKinsey's 2016 Analytics Study Defines The Future Of Machine Learning

Main insights from the McKinsey Global Institute’s study "The Age of Analytics: Competing In A Data-Driven World" published in collaboration with McKinsey Analytics.

Consortium of Research Libraries Announce Boycott of Elsevier Journals over Open Access

Consortium of Research Libraries Announce Boycott of Elsevier Journals over Open Access

Over 60 major German research institutions are canceling their subscriptions to all of Elsevier's academic and scientific journals, effective January 1, 2017.