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WHO today published its first ever list of antibiotic-resistant "priority pathogens"—a catalogue of 12 families of bacteria that pose the greatest threat to human health.
It is often assumed that issue advocacy will compromise the credibility of scientists.
Preprints are clearly the future of scientific communication, but currently face multiple obstacles.
New discoveries about the human mind show the limitations of reason.
When firing Allen Braun, the NIDCD also barred his colleagues from publishing data collected over a 25-year period.
For a career-minded scientist, to fail to replicate your own work is worse than never doing the replication at all.
The first data on the uptake of open access to publications in Horizon 2020.
Diverse approaches suit different goals.
Soft skills like teamwork and communication could boost undergraduates' career prospects.
New software that sees spots and stripes are helping biologists track animals in the wild without the tranquilizer guns and radio collars.
Software called DeepCoder has solved simple programming challenges by piecing together bits of borrowed code.
Mathematical model works by trying to remove skewing of results in group funding decisions
China gets bragging rights to two more internationally recognized researchers
Researchers will have to deal with attacks from a range of powerful foes in the coming years – and for many, it has already started.
New study sheds new light on impact of federal sanctions.
Lessons to US scientists in how to protect scientific integrity under US President Donald Trump.
We have long believed ourselves to be the only intelligent beings on Earth – that may soon change and the consequences will be dramatic for law, politics and society in general.
Students can learn the basics with a set of knitting needles.
Recommended is a personalised service that suggests relevant papers to you, based on what you’ve previously read, from all publishers.
MIT’s Kate Darling, who writes the rules of human-robot interaction, says an AI-enabled apocalypse should be the least of our concerns.
Several services attempt to gather up “all” of the content across publishers. This post provides an overview and taxonomy.
Emory College of Arts and Sciences has launched a $1.2 million effort that positions it to be a national leader in the future of scholarly publishing. The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation is funding the multiyear initiative to support long-form, open-access publications in the humanities in partnership with university presses.
A solution to fix the replication crisis in science: why do scientists not simply sell what they learn from their research?
How to prevent, diagnose, and treat the five diseases of academic publishing.
Chronicle of a two-day workshop curriculum to teach reproducible research using an interactive computational environment.
