Argentina's Researchers Occupy Science Ministry
Young scientists angry at budget cuts say they have been denied permanent jobs.
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Citations Cartels An Emerging Problem in Scientific Publishing
Groups of authors citing each other is becoming an issue in scientific publishing. With a new approach, researchers discuss how to identify the problem.
The Health Data Conundrum
There's quite a paradox when it comes to our health data. Most of us still cannot readily look at it, but there’s been an epidemic of cybercriminals and thieves hacking and stealing this most personal information. By Eric Topol.
Can You Rescue a Damaged Reputation?
How administrative procedure and law failed a scientist accused of research misconduct.
Scientists Loved and Loathedby an Agrochemical Giant
With corporate funding of research, “there’s no scientist who comes out of this unscathed.”
Musings about the Open Science Prize
As I was thinking about casting my vote for the Open Science Prize, I realized that I would in fact need a rubric for choosing. I was concerned that the public vote would tend towards popularity, familiarity, or bling, rather than the quality of the open science. But what does it mean to be “quality open science?” What should be the most important criteria?
Academics Who Publish Frequently ‘Have More Highly Cited Articles’
Analysis casts doubt on fears that ‘publish or perish’ culture undermines quality.
Fake News Invades Science and Science Journalism as well as Politics
Fake news and "post-truth," which may have played a role in the 2016 elections, are also problems in science publishing and science journalism.
How Scientists Use Slack
Eight ways labs benefit from the popular workplace messaging tool.
A Peek Inside the Strange World of Fake Academia
Mr. Beall’s website, which identifies “predatory open access scholarly publishers” that masquerade as scholarly journals, has grown to 923 publishers from 18 in 2011.
Public More Likely To Ignore Experts if Science Is Too Easy
Reading popular science articles causes non-scientists to overrate their expertise, research finds
Gone in 2016: 10 Notable Women in Science and Technology
Gone in 2016: 10 Notable Women in Science and Technology
These scientists made important contributions to physics, biology, astronomy and more
7 Bad Science and Health Ideas That Should Die With 2016
There’s no shortage of misinformation in the world — particularly around health and science topics.
It’s Been 53 Years Since a Woman Won the Nobel Prize in Physics. What’s the Holdup?
Simple and Declarative Titles Are More Likely To Be in the Altmetric Top 100
Free‐To‐Publish, Free‐To‐Read, Or Both? Cost, Equality of Access, and Integrity in Science Publishing
Free‐To‐Publish, Free‐To‐Read, Or Both? Cost, Equality of Access, and Integrity in Science Publishing
Universal Green OA Is the Most Efficient and Fairest of Science Publishing Strategies.
Vera Rubin, Who Confirmed Existence Of Dark Matter, Dies At 88
Vera Rubin, Who Confirmed Existence Of Dark Matter, Dies At 88
The astrophysicist's groundbreaking research on spiral galaxies provided evidence of invisible dark matter. She was a pioneer in an era when women were excluded from many astronomy programs.
Publishing Photography Competition 2016
The Royal Society Publishing Photography Competition celebrates the power of photography to communicate science.
Scientists in Germany, Peru and Taiwan to Lose Access to Elsevier Journals
Libraries pursue alternative delivery routes after licence negotiations break down.
The Irony Effect
The Irony Effect
How the scientist who founded the science of mistakes ended up mistaken.
Ten Simple Rules for Considering Preprints
So why make your work available as preprints? There are perceived positives and negatives to disclosing scientific work in the form of a preprint, explored here in the form of 10 Simple Rules.
Ten Simple Rules for Structuring Papers
10 simple rules to help you get across the main idea of your paper.
If Not Darwin, Who?
What would physics look like if Einstein had never existed, or biology without Darwin?
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