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.
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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.
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.
Swiss scientists regain access to some E.U. grants through 2016
A new agreement with the European Union means that Swiss researchers are eligible for some Horizon 2020 grants.
The Innovation Challenge report: a new approach to research funding
In a new report says that the government must increase taxpayer investment in research and development to match that of the UK’s competitors.
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
Industry backs women-only ad in Switzerland
Business sponsorship 'enables' gender-specific recruitment at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
QS World University Rankings 2014/15
Latest update of the interactive ranking table to explore the world's top universities.
What makes a global top 10 university?
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is in first place in the latest league table of the world's best universities.
A pioneer as elusive as his particle
A pioneer as elusive as his particle
When the Nobel Prize in Physics was to be announced, Peter Higgs decided it would be a good day to get out of town. Unfortunately, his car wasn't working.
The forgotten half of scientific thinking
Although thinking is the core business of scientists, we rarely ponder how it thrives best; this is ironic, as there is abundant scientific insight to draw upon.
How can we trust scientific publishers with our work if they won't play fair?
I have never liked how scientific journals charge us to read the research that we produce. But that is another debate for another day. What I really hate is how they abuse this power to stifle debate in the name of their business interests.
When research goes viral
The PLOS Pathogens team reflects on their most widely shared article and the benefits and pitfalls of sharing science research on social media.
Should I become a professor? Success rate 3 %
10% of all postdocs stay in academia but nearly 80% hope to pursue an academic career
Pride in science
The sciences can be a sanctuary for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender individuals, but biases may still discourage many from coming out.
Science communication as political communication
Scientific debates often blur the lines between the science that is being debated and the political, moral, and legal implications that come with its societal applications. This manuscript traces the origins of this phenomenon to professional norms within the scientific discipline.
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