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Modern science is becoming larger-scale and more collaborative.
The European Commission has abandoned consideration of 'Science 2.0', finding it too ambitious.
[5]Frontiers dismisses 31 of its editors, based on escalated opposition to the publisher’s unique publication model.
[8]Editas, a company started by several gene-editing pioneers, gets new funding to develop treatments for blood cancers, eye diseases, and sickle-cell anemia.
Positive results are exciting, but the interest in positive results is skewing what we know about science.
"Making non-attachment a central part of science education would beat the hell out of ethics classes and regulations about the use of Photoshop in preparing figures."
Peer review may not spot fraud – so universities need to be vigilant in tackling any wrongdoing among their staff.
Today’s patent regime operates in the name of progress. Instead, it sets innovation back. Time to fix it.
Many academics have internalised the pressure to police disciplinary boundaries, and keep their heads down and in their faculties.
Microbiologists show it's possible to achieve gender equity in scholarly presentations
Contrary to what some think, the battle against sexism in STEM has not been won, let alone reversed in favor of women.
In the quest for the research money it is more important how researchers build their collaboration network than what publications they produce and whether they are cited.
Facebook likes only predict citations in the psychological area but not in the non-psychological area of business or in the field of life sciences.
Laureates produce fewer papers but with higher average citations, more sole-authored papers both before and after winning the Prize, and have a lower number of coauthors across their entire careers than the matched group.
Results from a survey on perceptions of data sharing, discovery, and metrics.
Innovation almost always requires long periods of quite traditional training.
For-profit company Elsevier explains Open Science.
[3]Opinion piece that calls for bioethics to ‘get out of the way’ prompts self-reflection among ethicists.
Times Higher Education analysis reveals the institutions with the most Nobel prizewinners this century.
A Russian computer scientist was fired from his job at a university in the Netherlands last year after Dutch intelligence officers warned he was spying for his home country.
Open access journal SoftwareX publishes cross-discipline, peer-reviewed software that has been developed during the research process.
In the UK, in 2014, 46% of research grants awarded included non-academic partners, up from 38% the year before.
Consultants think they can make publicly funded research more efficient. But they’re in danger of ignoring existing analyses – and real-life experience.
Hiring a few research stars uses up resources that might otherwise support a number of promising younger researchers.
What if I told you that half of the studies published in scientific journals today - the ones upon which news coverage of medical advances is often based - won't hold up under scrutiny?
What are the right lessons to draw from the rise in scientific retractions?
Europe’s researchers have access to super-fast networks, common data storage facilities, and shared computing resources. The challenge now is to link them all together into a single science cloud.
