"It’s clear we are a long way from artificial general intelligence." - Erik Brynjolfsson

According to its developers, Statcheck gets it right in more than 95% of cases. Some outsiders still aren’t convinced.

Riko Muranaka awarded prize for efforts to explain jabs’s safety amid scare campaigns which have seen Japanese vaccination rate fall from over 70% to 1%.

NIH recommendations to identify credible journals.

A researcher specializing in post-traumatic stress disorder is facing jail time for allegedly embezzling tens of thousands of dollars of federal grant money.

Texas is at risk of a deadly measles outbreak, and yet few have been willing to cast blame on the state’s burgeoning—and notoriously combative—anti-vaccine movement.

Bringing €100 billion to the European economy.

The National Academy of Sciences called on the federal government to make drastic policy changes to bring down the cost of prescription medicines.

“Bombshell”, a new documentary film, tells the story of a studio star and pioneer of wireless technology.

The Project Jupyter team shares its reboot of Binder, a tool allowing researchers to make their GitHub repositories executable by others.

Commission aims to provide instant access to data stores across Europe, but some scientists worry about governance, control and costs.

European national education systems are becoming more inclusive and effective.

EU leaders highlighted their political support for enhanced cooperation in education.

329 Consolidator Grants worth €630 million.

Short-term visits are nixed for now, as Trump administration policies cool off U.S.-Cuba science relations

Legal methods to retrieve paywalled articles for free are on the rise, but better self-archiving practices could help improve accessibility. 

Text and data mining made easy with the allofPLOS project. Parsing tools together with the entire corpus of PLOS research articles for download.

Climate updates describes how our understanding of the science of climate change, and its impacts, have progressed since the 5th Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry announced a proposed $99 million in Fiscal Year 2018 funding for Energy Frontier Research Centers to accelerate transformative scientific advances for the most challenging topics in materials sciences, chemical sciences, geosciences, and biosciences.

The ERC has announced today the awarding of the Consolidator Grants that go to 329 top researchers across Europe.

Long-awaited industrial strategy pins hopes on commercial gains from research.

The cost of renewables is plunging faster than forecasters anticipated just a few years ago as as technologies like gigantic wind turbines arrive on the market.

"It is not statistics that is broken, but how it is applied to science." - S. Goodman

When fellow scientists critiqued Mark Jacobson, he took their dispute to court.

Springer Nature is considering a potential 4-5 billion euro stock market listing next year.

When Dutch researchers developed an open-source algorithm designed to flag statistical errors in psychology papers, it received mixed reaction from the research community.

European Commission renews glyphosate license despite debate on cancer risk.

Experiences of black female academics. A new book explores ther career trajectories.

The UK government’s long-awaited industrial strategy has arrived. It brings with it a fund to support interdisciplinary research and funding boosts for both the research councils and quality-related research funding.

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