Biden’s choices for National Science Board boost presence of women and minority scientists.

At least four articles credit the AI tool as a co-author, as publishers scramble to regulate its use.

A new global organisation is trying to prevent dramatic advances in bioscience from unleashing engineered pathogens from the lab, and wants research funders, scientists and journals to help. The International Biosecurity and Biosafety Initiative for Science (IBBIS) warns that scientists might be able to order the DNA of dangerous pathogens like smallpox from unregulated companies, and wants much tighter screening of the industry.

If researchers are to meet society's expectations, their training and mentoring must escape the nineteenth century.

President Joe Biden wants Congress to establish clear rules for biometric data policies and tools used in criminal investigations.

Effective Altruism (EA), a movement of rationalist do-gooders that has been growing in size and influence for just over a decade, hit the headlines worldwide in 2022 - although not quite as its supporters hoped.

Preceding all others, a peer-reviewed paper titled 'Open artificial intelligence platforms in nursing education: Tools for academic progress or abuse?' was recently published by Siobhan O'Connor, Senior Lecturer at the School of Health Sciences and an Adjunct Associate Professor at Western University.

The EU is to pilot a new initiative that aims to improve working conditions for young researchers, starting in 2024. The pilot will test how the European Commission, member states and industry could work together to coordinate financing and knowledge networks and strengthen and diversify research career paths by promoting links between academia and industry.  

Here's how NASA is incentivizing open science, and how you can too.

Data show how privileged groups still dominate many of the country's elite research institutes.

The Manifesto for Early Career Researchers calls for increasing the recognition of the research activity and fostering diversified research careers at a European level. 

European research leaders have reacted with disappointment to Switzerland's expulsion from the body that coordinates scientific infrastructure across the continent.

Reflecting on nearly twenty years of transdisciplinary practice and research and the recent publication of their new book, New Mediums, Better Messages? How Innovations in Translation, Engagement, and Advocacy are Changing International Development, this article considers how the role of popular and vernacular knowledge is essential to international development.

A culture of fear around corrections and retractions is hampering efforts to maintain the integrity of scientific research.

In 2014, Chinese researchers published more papers than any other country for the first time. In 2019, China overtook the U.S. as the No. 1 publisher of the most influential papers.

The European Commission is making a big push to reform research assessment, but Germany's university leaders are not convinced the call for change from above is the right way to deliver it.

The proportion of publications that send a field in a new direction has plummeted over the last half-century.

Wallace, who independently discovered the theory of evolution, relied on local knowledge to craft his seminal work on species ranges in the Amazon. Now, the region's Indigenous scientists have taken charge of their research using this and other cross-cultural tools.

Making COVID-19 manageable and covering financial losses from climate change could make headlines

NIH to require researchers to submit a Data Management and Sharing Plan with grant applications submitted after Jan. 25, 2023

A small but growing number of scientific faculty positions are focusing on the science of teaching.

Andrew Wood plans for a career-defining 12 months ahead, and what he needs to focus on.

2022 was great for science, from historic space missions to archeological discoveries and plenty to learn in medicine.

In a landmark decision this week, the European Research Council (ERC) announced changes to its application forms and evaluation procedures that will be implemented starting with the 2024 calls for proposals.

Moon landings, mRNA vaccines and climate finance are among the developments set to shape research in the coming year.

This study tested if paying to publish open access in a subscriptionbased journal benefited authors by conferring more citations relative to closed access articles and found that paying for access does confer a citation advantage.

Science is being used as leverage in international politics. That must not become a barrier to countries working together on climate change, biodiversity loss, pandemic prevention and other pressing goals.

Atheists can easily create their own Christmas, starting with the decoration of the tree.

Why the greatest scientific experiment in history failed, and why that's a great thing.