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Today's complex, dynamic scientific results are often found with the help of computers. And yet the most popular tool we have for communicating these results is the PDF - literally a simulation of a piece of paper. Maybe we can do better.
Most lab mice are kept in pristine conditions, but a few immunologists think a dose of dirt could make them a better model of human disease.
Across the UK, universities are falling behind government targets to increase female representation on their boards by 2020. What steps can they take?
University of California libraries tackle the transition from subscription-based publishing to sustainable open access.
John Ioannidis discusses the potential effects on clinical research of a 2017 proposal to lower the default P value threshold for statistical significance from .05 to .005 as a means to reduce false-positive findings.
The breadth of social and moral questions raised requires a new architecture for democratic debate, insists Simon Burall.
If scientists avoid discussing the topic candidly, racist theories will fill the vacuum.
How blockchain can be used to time-stamp data and authenticate research.
The privacy backlash over Cambridge Analytica and Facebook may lead to explosive consequences for academics.
After years in a deadlock with publishers, researchers are keen to know whether we will now see for-profit companies and ‘astroturfers’ enter the open science landscape and undermine science in pursuit of their commercial interests, while claiming to support the struggle of researchers, who demand more say in the publishing of scholarly articles.
Science is a human activity. When we fail to distill and explain research, we accumulate a kind of debt.
The sleeping bear of Russian science could finally wake - and China can show it how.
Should we treat preprints the same way that we treat reviewed and published material? If so, how can we make that clear to readers?
From Margaret Thatcher to Generation Snowflake, Keith Joseph to Sam Gyimah, why and how have universities and students found themselves so firmly on the wrong side of public opinion? And what are we going to do about it?
An interview with Kai Chan and his strategies to seek the combination of both kinds of impacts.
Fake news has a long history, but there are new unanswered scientific questions raised by the proliferation of its most recent, politically oriented incarnation.
The accomplishments, limitations, recent advances and directions for future developments in the field of research synthesis.
What if it is not the concepts described by science fiction that could have the most impact, but the act of storytelling - the creation of scientific narratives - itself?
Overlooking the need for paid Editorial Office staff hobbles many attempts to reform peer review.
Four concrete suggestions - for Childcare, Accommodate families, Resources, Establish social networks - are directed toward research societies and conference organizers who are willing to take a leadership role in creating solutions, either incrementally or on a large scale.
