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A Russian computer scientist was fired from his job at a university in the Netherlands last year after Dutch intelligence officers warned he was spying for his home country.
Open access journal SoftwareX publishes cross-discipline, peer-reviewed software that has been developed during the research process.
In the UK, in 2014, 46% of research grants awarded included non-academic partners, up from 38% the year before.
Consultants think they can make publicly funded research more efficient. But they’re in danger of ignoring existing analyses – and real-life experience.
Scientists on social media debate a call to require PhD students to replicate research before they can graduate.
What if I told you that half of the studies published in scientific journals today - the ones upon which news coverage of medical advances is often based - won't hold up under scrutiny?
What are the right lessons to draw from the rise in scientific retractions?
Europe’s researchers have access to super-fast networks, common data storage facilities, and shared computing resources. The challenge now is to link them all together into a single science cloud.
Harness Horizon 2020 to maximise the impact and benefit of EU funds, argue Mike Galsworthy and Martin McKee.
Kurt Deketelaere looks at the battles, and progress, of the Juncker Commission's first nine months, and sees more of both to come.
[32]Crowdfunding | Is crowdfunding a viable source of clinical trial research funding?
[33]Misconduct | Males are overrepresented among life science researchers committing scientific misconduct
Federal spending on research and development has fallen by 7% largely due to a freeze in research collaborations with the EU following the February 2014 vote to limit EU immigration.
The mission of CORE is to aggregate all open access research outputs from repositories and journals worldwide and make them available to the public.
The US is committed to building a computer some 30x more powerful than today's top machine.
Crowdfunding for Life Science Research. FutSci is an arena for public engagement in Biomedical and Bioscience Research, enabling members of the public to directly fund research.
Senate panel approved a bill that would require U.S. science agencies to make the peer-reviewed research papers they fund freely available to the public.
Research Councils UK has published its response to the independent Review of the implementation of the RCUK policy on Open Access, chaired by Professor Sir Bob Burgess.
More than 1,000 artificial intelligence researchers have signed an open letter issued that calls for a ban on autonomous weapons that select and engage targets without human intervention.
Google's biotech Calico will delve into the genetic database amassed by a unit of Ancestry.com to look for hereditary influences on longevity.
The new Scopus Article Metrics module includes new metrics based on four alternative metrics categories.
Is public money being thrown away on scientific research whose results won’t hold up to scrutiny?
Dalmeet Singh Chawla rounds up the recent discussion about single figure publications.
Massive study seeks to succeed where others failed, but faces tight deadline and questions about strategy.
Cindy Wu, a recent college graduate, had a great idea — and when she explained it, investors opened up their checkbooks
Active problem-solving confers a deeper understanding of science than does a standard lecture. But some university lecturers are reluctant to change tack.
The single figure publication is a novel, efficient format by which to communicate scholarly advances. It will serve as a forerunner of the nano-publication, a modular unit of information critical for machine-driven data aggregation and knowledge integration.
The difficulty in replicating research findings has been at the center of the attention in the specialized and lay press for a number of years and is more recently attracting the attention of the Administration and Congress.
This leaflet presents some initial results of the She Figures 2015 data collection. It provides data on the proportions of women and men amongst top level graduates and researchers.
PEERE is a project funded by the European Union to explore issues around journal and grant peer review, running from 2014 to 2018.
