Nobel prizewinner John O'Keefe urges UK to nurture young scientists
Joint winner says move to UK was important to his success and fears impact of government migration controls and funding freeze.
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Reproducing experiments is more complicated than it seems
A new way to measure whether an experimental result is really replicated.
Why we need badges in science
There's a lot that gets done that goes unrecognized. That unrecognized work can not only be crucial for getting to the actual research outcome put forward in the form of publications, but also for reflecting important skills gained.
Scientific writing: the online cooperative
Collaborative browser-based tools aim to change the way researchers write and publish their papers.
The impact of researcher development
A collection of papers based on workshops at the Vitae Researcher Development International Conference, 3-4th September 2013, Manchester, UK
Sciencestarter
Sciencestarter is the first German crowdfunding platform for science projects.
250 great minds
The University of Leeds is seeking to recruit up to 250 exceptional early career academics to tenure track equivalent Academic Fellowships over the next three years.
MozFest: Bringing the Web to Science
MozFest: Bringing the Web to Science
October 24-26, London
Swiss resarcher part of US BRAIN initiative
Related: [10]NIH announces first wave of BRAIN grants
2014 Golden Goose Award winners
The Golden Goose Award is a new award that recognizes scientists and engineers whose federally funded research has had significant human and economic benefits.
Grand openings
Changes that will bring scientific discovery more freely into the public domain are happening.
Are we producing too few or too many science and technology grads?
According to a new report, the answer is "both."
Safe European home
I have a dream…. that one day top‐quality science will be practised all over the world. Yes, I know: it's just another of my silly dreams.
Why the best way to fix it isn't going to work
Wall Street analysts say open access has failed, but their analysis might help us succeed. If we dare.
About the size of Google Scholar
The emergence of academic search engines has revived and increased the interest in the size of the academic web, since their aspiration is to index the entirety of current academic knowledge.
How Diversity Makes Us Smarter
Being around people who are different from us makes us more creative, more diligent and harder-working
Research picks up pace
The crowdsourcing model of raising public funds online for individual projects is becoming a real possibility for medical and scientific research.
To get more out of science, show the rejected research
The research conducted using federal funds is driven - and distorted - by the academic publishing model.
Big data and full-genome analysis not all they're cracked up to be
Interview with Walter Gilbert, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry
There's not a creativity deficit in science
Reply to a recent opinion stating that creativity was being suppressed in science.
Science and the Wealth of Nations
Reflections on Science supervised by F. Heukelom, K. Landsman and M. Hagner of ETH Zurich.
Can tweets predict citations?
A study of 2011 suggests that highly tweeted articles were 11 times more likely to be highly cited than less-tweeted articles.
How nations fare in PhDs by sex
How women and men fare in doctoral studies around the world.
Single market for research depends on national reforms,
Reforms must now be implemented at the Member State level to make ERA work.
University of California plans Venture-Capital fund for campus startups
Investment pool, at $250 Million, would be among biggest targeted for student and faculty research
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