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Springer Nature Collaborates with IBM Watson Health to Create Deeper Insights from Cutting Edge Scientific and Medical Research

Springer Nature Collaborates with IBM Watson Health to Create Deeper Insights from Cutting Edge Scientific and Medical Research

Springer Nature announced a collaboration with Watson Health to expand and enhance the integration of valuable genomics.

How Many Wikipedia References Are Available to Read? We Measured the Proportion of Open Access Sources Across Languages and Topics

How Many Wikipedia References Are Available to Read? We Measured the Proportion of Open Access Sources Across Languages and Topics

When following a link to the official version of a scholarly article, Wikipedia readers are twice as likely to hit a paywall than one they can freely read.

Chief of Europe's 1-Billion EUR Brain Project Steps Down

Chief of Europe's 1-Billion EUR Brain Project Steps Down

Chris Ebell, who became director of the initiative in 2015, leaves after differences of opinion with the project’s lead institution.

Top Geneticist Loses 3.5-Million GBP Grant in First Test of Landmark Bullying Policy

Top Geneticist Loses 3.5-Million GBP Grant in First Test of Landmark Bullying Policy

The Wellcome Trust pulled the grant from Nazneen Rahman, who worked at the Institute of Cancer Research in London.

Harassment Charges: Injustice Done?

Harassment Charges: Injustice Done?

Colleagues urge UCI to acknowledge the possibility that its sanctions against Professor Ayala were enacted in haste and to reopen the case and investigate the matter more thoroughly.

Survey of U.S. Government Scientists Finds Range of Attitudes Toward Trump Policies

Survey of U.S. Government Scientists Finds Range of Attitudes Toward Trump Policies

A survey suggests U.S. government scientists views are hard to pigeonhole and fall short of documenting widespread unhappiness with the Trump administration.

When a Female C.E.O. Leaves, the Glass Ceiling Is Restored

When a Female C.E.O. Leaves, the Glass Ceiling Is Restored

Even at companies run by prominent women — where it seems that gender diversity has made great strides — why is a female leader hardly ever replaced by another woman?

Fields Medal Winner Caucher Birkar Gets a New Medal After Original Prize Was Stolen

Fields Medal Winner Caucher Birkar Gets a New Medal After Original Prize Was Stolen

A Kurdish refugee whose top mathematics prize was stolen minutes after he received the honor this week in Rio de Janeiro will get a replacement medal on Saturday, organisers said.

Top Math Laureate Gets New Medal After Prize Stolen

Top Math Laureate Gets New Medal After Prize Stolen

A Kurdish refugee whose top mathematics prize was stolen minutes after he received the honor this week in Rio de Janeiro will get a replacement medal Saturday, organizers said.

India Cracks down on 'Predatory Publishers' Following International Investigation

India Cracks down on 'Predatory Publishers' Following International Investigation

An international investigation has discovered that some 400,000 scientists have published papers in so-called "predatory journals".  Action taken after number of journals run by such publishers triples since 2013.

Plan to Replicate 50 High-Impact Cancer Papers Shrinks to Just 18

Plan to Replicate 50 High-Impact Cancer Papers Shrinks to Just 18

An ambitious project that set out nearly 5 years ago to replicate experiments from 50 high-impact cancer biology papers, but gradually shrank that number, now expects to complete just 18 studies.

Using Artificial Intelligence to Fix Wikipedia's Gender Problem

Using Artificial Intelligence to Fix Wikipedia's Gender Problem

A software tool uses machine-learning algorithms to scour news articles and scientific citations to find notable scientists missing from Wikipedia.