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Data Sharing Should Be In Everyone’s Interest
Open Data Button launched to encourage public sharing of data sets.
Women Also Know Stuff is a website dedicated to promoting the work of women political scientists.
Researchers welcome new money but worry it won't be well spent
When presenting evidence to policymakers, scientists and other experts need to engage with the policy process that exists, not the one we wish existed.
Large telescopes, particle accelerators and environmental stations are among the topics covered by the eight new research infrastructure projects that are announced today as part of the 2016 Roadmap for the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI).
The contest is another milestone in AI as Lee Sedol, Go's best player, is defeated again
The make-up of a lab is crucial to success in publishing its research — and now, scientists are exploring how to compose the best research group possible.
Jesse Singal argues that the critique by Gilbert et al on the Reproducibility Project isn’t as muscular as it appears at first glance.
Anyone who looks at international rankings has noticed that Switzerland is rising rapidly up the global academic hierarchy. Sweden and the Netherlands are close behind. This is no coincidence.
Scholars in the UK and Australia contemptuous of impact statements and often exaggerate them, study suggests
The Center for Open Science (COS) is funding the development of an integration between GitLab and the Open Science Framework (OSF).
Understanding what an ad’s language really means will help you optimize your job search results.
The total number of papers published by researchers during their early career period (first fifteen years) has increased in recent decades, but so has their average number of co-authors.
Where once scientists used to be solitary creatures, today science is a highly collaborative affair, and the latest research in ecology is no exception.
Three UK neuroscientists jointly win the €1 million European Brain Prize for their work on memory.
Women have come a long way in science, but plenty of work remains. After all, gender bias in science doesn't happen in a vacuum.
Intelligence project aims to reverse-engineer the brain to find algorithms that allow computers to think more like humans.
The new website sciencegeist.com curates news and opinions about on-going science policy issues.
Ben Goldacre on why a ban on researchers speaking to politicians and policymakers fails the taxpayers who fund them
From multicoloured scans of the human body, to vivid photos of creatures up close - the finalists of the annual Wellcome Image Awards.
Conference aims to raise awareness of shared resources for building lab equipment.
Silicon Valley’s hoodie-wearing tech entrepreneurs are the poster kids of innovation. But the innovators who are really changing the world are more likely to wear labcoats and hold government-related jobs in Grenoble, Munich or Tokyo. That's the conclusion of Reuters’ Top 25 Global Innovators – Government, a list that identifies and ranks the publicly funded institutions doing the most to advance science and technology.
Women do more of the day-to-day labor of science while men are credited with more of the big-picture thinking.
Science self-regulation allows detecting more quickly and accurately methodological flaws, fraudulent results and conflicts of interest that may affect the credibility of the discovery. However, it also opens room for disproportionate reactions.
The Royal Society’s new campaign highlights the importance of life outside the laboratory
Is science quite as scientific as it's supposed to be? After years of covering science in the news, Alok Jha began to wonder whether science is as rigorous as it should be.
