Are academic findings still reliable if the studies are bankrolled by corporate dollars?

The recent election cycle has made it abundantly clear to most scientists that a large fraction of adults in the United States are surprisingly susceptible to illogical arguments designed to fool them.

As a young professor 25 years ago, Lisa J. Graumlich awoke to a career success: Her work studying tree-ring patterns to reconstruct 1,000 years of global climate history had just become headline news...

With so many scholarly communications tools and technologies now available, how do academics decide which are most appropriate for their research?

How a public blockchain would fundamentally change the way we govern and do business.

The latest threat to academic freedom is occurring in the heart of Europe, in Hungary.

Technology, greed, a lack of clear rules and norms, hyper-competitiveness and a certain amount of corruption have resulted in confusion and anarchy in the world of scientific communication.

The evidence on widespread publication bias is murky.

A comparison with the early Reagan budgets shows many similarities, but also demonstrates the Trump Administration is far more willing to scale back even basic science.

And how to fix it.

Advances in automation technology mean that robots and artificial intelligence programs are capable of performing an ever-greater share of our work,

Automation has the potential to replace or alter 35 million jobs worldwide, which means universities must adapt to survive.

Even for scientists, policy decisions entail much more than science.

Popular-audience science writing are more concerned with what we don't know than what we do.

Is digital technology making fundamental changes to learning and teaching, transforming it in ways that were unimaginable before the advent of the internet?

What keeps us honest?

Academic publishing is becoming more about establishing a pecking order and less about pursuing knowledge.

Trump's first budget blueprint is a cramped document that sacrifices American innovation to small-bore politics, shortchanging basic scientific research across the government.

Massive funding cuts in the president's proposed budget could be more devastating than any threat posed by illegal immigrants.

What happens when diagnosis is automated?

After flunking a calculus test, I worried I wouldn't make it in science. But I stuck with it, even as people I knew dropped out after their first failure.

Steps to reduce waste of funds in research.

And more than a little quixotic.

Without more conservative perspectives in the academy, lawmakers will increasingly ignore and potentially defund social science.

Silicon Valley is coming for death. But it’s looking in the wrong place.

This is not about Republicans versus Democrats. It is about a more fundamental divide, between those who believe in evidence as a basis for life-altering and nation-defining decisions and those who adhere unflinchingly to dogma.

Would it be better to do away with the search for excellence, and to fund science by lottery?

Papers published in low-impact journals are not necessarily low-quality scientific contributions.

The region's scientists lament that their research is too often disconnected from the larger scientific world. In the age of Zika, that needs to change.

Last year, NIH implemented a policy to push scientists to consider how sex affects biological systems. Critics worry it goes too far.