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Researchers and students are struggling with obstructive rules on immigration to the EU that urgently need updating: scientists from countries outside the EU are not being made welcome and often face problems in moving freely between member states.
The financing of the flagship Human Brain Project is secured through 2016. But what about its future?
Cancer Research UK, AstraZeneca and Pfizer to create a pioneering clinical trial for patients with advanced lung cancer
"Die Schweizer Forschung wird künftig international sein oder gar nicht mehr sein."
Wirtschaftsforscher warnen vor Unterfinanzierung der Grundlagenforschung
Academic-industry research collaborations have long been a source of controversy in medicine.
Aside from the occasional cigar (once every five years or so), I'm one of those smug "never smoked" gits. You then might think that I'm all for plain packaging, not publishing tobacco industry-funded research, and completely against the " normalization" of smoking via the evidently evil medium of e-cigarettes.
Liz Allen, Amy Brand, Jo Scott, Micah Altman and Marjorie Hlava are trialling digital taxonomies to help researchers to identify their contributions to collaborative projects. Research today is rarely a one-person job.
Ein Studie zeigt, dass immer mehr Stiftungen in der Schweiz die Wissenschaft fördern.
A lack of diversity in terms of gender, disability, ethnicity, socio-economic status and background across the scientific community represents a large loss of talent to the UK.
The proportion of non-tenure-track and non-tenured faculty posts continues to rise across all US institutions. Overall proportion of assistant professors in non-tenure-track posts was 23.4% for 2013–14, compared with 20.8% in 2010–11.
The report highlights universities' increasingly significant impact on the economy in terms of output, contribution to GDP, job creation, and overseas investment.
EU report urging a copyright law reform to help researchers text-mine research papers.
Poor reproducibility is only one of many factors that together make biomedical research highly inefficient.
By the Autralian National University research skills training.
Schweizer Firmen haben bereits Millionen über die Fördertöpfe der EU abholen können.
82% of NIH papers are publicly accessible a year after they are published.
NASA Scientific relations between Russia and the West have reached their lowest ebb since the cold war, after Russia annexed Ukraine's Crimean peninsula.
Anne Glover, Chief Scientific Adviser to the European Commission, discusses evidence-based policy and nurturing and supporting a European scientific culture.
There is no doubt that big data is a valuable tool that has already had a critical impact in certain areas. But because of its popularity, we need to be levelheaded about what big data can and can’t do.
The sudden appearance of data scientists on the business scene reflects the fact that companies are now wrestling with information that comes in varieties and volumes never encountered before.
Felipe Fernández-Armesto bristles at the stifling effect of peer review.
The age at which Nobel prize winners receive their prizes has increased dramatically, especially in physics.
New data show the short-term economic activity generated by science funding, by Julia Lane.
Publicity spurs science study retractions 7 times more often.
Academic research can be hugely stressful. This study shows that the demands of applying for a research grant also carry an emotional toll.
NIH's initiative to support and implement fairer competition for minority students is a welcome step to redress the exploitation of African Americans by science.
Die interdisziplinäre Studie zeigt auf, welche Folgen damit verbunden sind, z.B. im Hinblick auf die Persönlichkeitsrechte, den Datenschutz oder den Umgang von Betroffenen mit Krankheitsrisiken.
Is Open Science already here? Not exactly. Open Science is more than a subset of projects that make data available or sharing of software tools, often because they received specific funding to do so.
"I co-founded the PLOS in 2002 because I believed deeply that the open access publishing model PLOS espoused and has come to dominate was good for science, scientists and the public."
