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People are denied access to research hidden behind paywalls every day. This problem is invisible, but it slows innovation, kills curiosity and harms patients. This is an indictment of the current system.
The "pursuit of ignorance" drives all science
The "pursuit of ignorance" drives all science
Neuroscientist Stuart Firestein rejects any metaphor that likens the goal of science to completing a puzzle, peeling an onion, or peeking beneath the surface to view an iceberg in its entirety. Such comparisons suggest a future in which all of our questions will be answered.
LHC plans for open data future
When the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is humming along, the data come in a deluge.
Scientific articles must be free for everyone to read in the Netherlands
Scientific articles written by Dutch researchers must be accessible for everyone to read free of charge from 2016.
Hampered by 'lack of long-term plan'
Peers criticise 'ad hoc' spending announcements on infrastructure
FDA tells google-backed 23andMe to halt DNA test service
The FDA is concerned about the public health consequences of inaccurate results from Google's personal genome service device.
Where does this leave the scientists?
Researchers can still operate by the rules and norms of science, but under Horizon 2020 they have - with the exception of the ERC - no autonomy to decide what science they do.
Research funding has become prone to bubble formation
Research funding has become prone to bubble formation
Research from the University of Copenhagen, which has just been published in the journal Philosophy and Technology, shows how the mechanisms that set off the financial crisis might be replicating in the field of science.
Research that doesn't belong to single subject area is deemed 'too risky'
Research that doesn't belong to single subject area is deemed 'too risky'
Academics concerned universities are excluding interdisciplinary research from the Research Excellence Framework exercise.
3 ways to blow the whistle
Reporting suspicions of scientific fraud is rarely easy, but some paths are more effective than others.
Enemy of the good
Who are the outstanding mentors of young researchers? Since 2005, Nature has awarded an annual prize for scientific mentoring, rotating through a variety of countries.
The DIY dilemma
The DIY dilemma
The do-it-yourself-biology movement has an image problem. More commonly called DIYbio, it tends to conjure up pictures of T-shirt-clad misfits marshalling limited scientific skill in their basements as they try to make cool-but-fringe things such as glow-in-the-dark plants.
Science Bubbles
Science Bubbles
Much like the trade and traits of bubbles in financial markets, similar bubbles appear on the science market.
Impact beyond the impact factor
The journal impact factor is an annually calculated number for each scientific journal, based on the average number of times its articles published in the two preceding years have been cited.
Journals, repositories, peer review, non-peer review, and the future of scholarly communication
Journals, repositories, peer review, non-peer review, and the future of scholarly communication
Essay on the problems relating to reliance on subject-specific journals and peer review.
Research grant success rates rise with demand management
Research grant success rates rise with demand management
The research councils’ controversial demand management measures have been credited with driving the fourth successive annual rise in the overall success rate for grant applications, which now stands at 30 per cent.
Age distribution of NIH PIs and Medical School Faculty
A video showing the age distribution of NIH Principal Investigators and Medical School faculty.
PLOS profits prompt revamp
Elizabeth Marincola, PLOS's chief executive, says that the future of science publishing is not in branded, highly selective titles. Instead, she sees a world in which article metrics and community judgements help the cream of research to rise to the top.
New GRE data illustrate trends on future graduate students
Test-takers who took the GRE in 2012-13 were more likely to be a bit younger and a bit more science-oriented than those who took the exam the year before.
Google Scholar Library
Today we're launching Scholar Library, your personal collection of articles in Scholar. You can save articles right from the search page, organize them by topic, and use the power of Scholar's full-text search & ranking to quickly find just the one you want - at any time and from anywhere.
Frederick Sanger, two-time nobel-winning scientist, dies at 95
Frederick Sanger, a British biochemist whose discoveries about the chemistry of life led to the decoding of the human genome and to the development of new drugs like human growth hormone and earned him two Nobel Prizes, a distinction held by only three other scientists, died on Tuesday in Cambridge, England.
What's so special about science? (And how much should we spend on it?)
Presidential address on why society is willing to support an endeavor as abstract and altruistic as basic scientific research and an enterprise as large and practical as the R&D enterprise as a whole.
Top 20 things politicians need to know about science
British and Australian scientists compile a list of tips to help policy makers better understand the 'imperfect nature of science'
The risks of the replication drive
The push to replicate findings could shelve promising research and unfairly damage the reputations of careful, meticulous scientists, says Mina Bissell.
Understanding science's closures
Rather than simply demanding more open science, we should remember closure is a quite normal part of science, and instead look in detail at what's closing, when, why and to whom?
Research needs more poetry, not more cash
Research needs more poetry, not more cash
'Big money' grants foster 'bookkeeping' work at the expense of small-scale but potentially groundbreaking efforts, says Gary Thomas
Lessons for the STEM fields
Lessons for the STEM fields
Improving U.S. education in the STEM fields — science, technology, engineering and mathematics — has become a popular cause.
Science funding and the value of science investigation and education
"We must put a man on the moon and return him safely to Earth before the end of the decade." These were the words spoken in 1961 to Congress by the late President John F.Kennedy, who fifty years ago this month was struck down by an assassin's bullet in Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963.
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