Zimbabwe's New Government Must Commit to Science
As a new president takes office, scientists in the country and beyond should urge the administration to make science a priority, says Dexter Tagwireyi.
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As a new president takes office, scientists in the country and beyond should urge the administration to make science a priority, says Dexter Tagwireyi.
Even lobbyists admit that’s the plan behind the extra EU copyright for news.
Its government is virtual, borderless, blockchained, and secure. Has this tiny post-Soviet nation found the way of the future?
Climatologist Katherine Hayhoe says that scientists have no option but to fight against the politicisation of science.
Moves to create a multi-speed Internet could push science into the slow lane.
Opinion pieces that “represent the viewpoint of an individual” and offer hypotheses without testing them are the opposite of science.
The Good Pharma Scorecard finds some big pharmaceutical companies are meeting legal standards for disclosing results—but many studies still go unreported.
Les Hatton and Gregory Warr give their two-pronged solution to the problems of peer review
A surprising amount of publicly funded research data stays private. How could that change?
Social media gets all the attention for polarization, but TV is doing more than its share.
"…cultural change rests with individual scientists, teams, and professional societies."
Leonard Freedman, president of the Global Biological Standards Institute, discusses the causes of irreproducible science and his latest effort to spread best practices.
We might hope for a better future where everyone acts professionally, but we should be realistic about the flaws of our human nature. Opinion piece by Stephen Curry.
Research practices, quality in research and researcher commitment are among the topics covered in this inspiring interview.
The digital currency is slowing our effort to achieve a rapid transition away from fossil fuels.
Carbon capture has a bad reputation. But after a year of reporting, I’ve come to a conclusion: It's both vital and viable.
We all lose because of the biases of Wall Street and Silicon Valley.
Lawsuits have an intimidating effect on an already difficult enterprise.
Funders should not support policy-relevant work that treats policy impact as an afterthought.
Academic publishers are "still acting as if the internet doesn’t exist,” says Michael Eisen, co-founder of the Public Library of Science.
New technologies like artificial intelligence, self-driving vehicles and the internet of things could be used to reduce the widening economic gulf that is emerging in modern societies.
Retraction Watch interviews Irene Hames.
The OECD has just released a comprehensive report on Science, Technology and Industry for 2017. So how is France doing?
Combining the minds of humans and machines to avoid confirmation bias.