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With the right investment, an open source drug discovery system might compete with the traditional pharmaceutical industry to deliver the drugs we need.
The solution to science's replication crisis is a new ecosystem in which scientists sell what they learn from their research.
Today, a scientist's most desired citation may be from a publication not often thought of as prestigious: Wikipedia.
Two and a half years ago now, a narrow majority of the Swiss electorate approved the so-called popular 'Stop Mass Immigration' initiative or MEI proposed by the Swiss People’s Party or SVP...
Postdoc positions in industry can teach people skills that they would not learn in academia.
Investigators are now required to disclose all clinical trials, whether successful or not.
Proposed law would ban the practice
Long-awaited plan would exempt computer-aided harvesting from EU copyright law.
A modest developmental biology paper prompts breathless claims of egg-free embryos
Although peer review is now a fundamental quality control measure implemented during the publishing process, the practice as we know it today is quite different from how it was envisioned...
Looking forward to Peer Review Week, we asked the Chefs “What is the future of peer review?”
Critics say the big new building will ruin the city's historic skyline
Ruth Hubbard, 92, of Cambridge, who died Sept. 1, first female biology professor to be awarded tenure at Harvard University, and also was an anti-war activist, a cautionary voice about privacy and gene research, and a prominent feminist critic of discrimination women face in sciences.
But UK students at universities abroad will lose out from the falling pound
Postdoc positions in industry can teach people skills that they would not learn in academia.
As part of its update of EU copyright rules, the European Commission today proposed a copyright exception that would permit researchers to analyse on a large scale scientific data to which they have lawful access.
This study estimates the development of hybrid open access (OA), i.e. articles published openly on the web within subscription-access journals.
A look at the literature reveals shortcomings in the way OA and subscription models are being compared and suggests how future studies could build on existing research to provide a more accurate picture
'Reproducibility editor' Victoria Stodden explains the growing movement to make code and data available to others
John Ioannidis suggests that the number of systematic reviews and meta-analyses in literature have each increased by more than 2500% since 1991.
John P.A. Ioannidis argues that the production of systematic reviews and meta-analyses has reached epidemic proportions.
The Council of the EU looks set to ask the European Research Council to consider setting up a new category of grants to help student researchers establish their careers.
The Lasker Awards, among the most respected prizes in medicine, will go to six researchers who made major discoveries in physiology and virology, and to a scientist who has tirelessly promoted science education.
Today sees the publication on bioRxiv of a revised version of our preprint outlining “A simple proposal for the publication of journal citation distributions".
September 2016 marks the first year anniversary of the launch of the Open Library of Humanities. To celebrate, we thought we'd share some statistics about the platform and its growth.
Internal sugar industry documents suggest that five decades of research into the role of nutrition and heart disease may have been largely shaped by the sugar industry.
Scientific cooperation between the UK and Russia was boosted in August this year when Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev agreed to extend the UK-Russia Intergovernmental Agreement on Science and Technology cooperation for another 10 years.
