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Many of the deadliest or most common cancers get the least amount of nonprofit research funding, according to a new Northwestern Medicine study that examined cancer research funding from nonprofit organizations.
The research community needs to find ways to reward study design and methodology as much as the final result. A publishing format called Registered Reports offers a means of addressing this challenge.
Violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has interrupted clinical trials and forced scientists to change how they immunize people.
Scientific manuscript tracking and pre-prints with the In Review service from Springer Nature and Research Square.
The Research Data Alliance (RDA) and the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) are pleased to announce an agreement to work together to strengthen and expand capacities for research data management within the international data repository community.
Until recently, few universities tried to replicate the Meyerhoff Scholars Program, aiming to increase diversity among future leaders in science, technology, engineering and related fields. But that's changing.
"Manned" spaceflight doesn't make sense anymore.
Ten years ago, a neuroscientist said that within a decade he could simulate a human brain. Spoiler: It didn't happen.
EMBO's Bernd Pulverer looks at the revised Plan S Implementation Guidelines.
The publication of our first two Registered Reports marks a major milestone for Nature Human Behaviour. These studies demonstrate what many researchers know, but is often hidden from the published literature: confirmatory research doesn't always confirm the authors' hypotheses.
Six limiting maxims PhD students should avoid.
Hundreds of scientific research papers published by Australian scientists have been found to be unreliable or compromised, fuelling calls for a national science watchdog.
But only because we have had access to health care, emotional support and institutional backing.
Jessica Wade has added nearly 700 Wikipedia biographies for important female and minority scientists in less than two years.
We scientists must stand up for openness and fairness. Discriminating against someone because of their ethnicity, turning down a collaboration or refusing a visa for a conference on the grounds of nationality, or simply making someone feel unwelcome because they are an immigrant - these are all morally objectionable and practically counterproductive. Such behaviour must cease.
Collaboration brings together leading platforms for data and software sharing.
Scholar Metrics provide an easy way for authors to quickly gauge the visibility and influence of recent articles in Google Scholar publications.
The meaning of a debate about the cost of higher education.
Measurement creates a temptation to achieve a measurable goal by less than totally honest means. As in physics, the simple act of measuring invariably disturbs what you are trying to measure.
Numerous unsung women, from computer engineers and mathematicians to secretaries and seamstresses, helped put a man on the moon. Here are the stories of some of those women.
Deaf student Liam Mcmulkin has created more than 100 signs for words used in science.
Just 28% of the world’s researchers are women, but Eastern Europe bucks this global trend. The Soviet legacy is part of the reason.
The science of medicine is based on male bodies, but researchers are beginning to realize how vastly the symptoms of disease differ between the sexes - and how much danger women are in.
A Chinese scientist’s startup fled the U.S. after a federal investigation that included a failed sting, airport stops and an unfounded child-porn search.
Animal-rights group's campaign to end forced-swim tests comes amid debate over whether method is overused.
Plan S is a manifesto for full and immediate Open Access set out by a coalition of research funders. It has been discussed a lot recently, but what, exactly, does it involve?
So does Sci-Hub lead libraries to cancel journals, or doesn't it? Maybe the answer isn't a simple yes or no.
With open access Plan S approaching, learned society journals are expected to fall in hard times.
