Jürgen Schmidhuber says artificial intelligence will surpass humans’ in 2050, enabling robots to have fun, fall in love – and colonise the galaxy.

Philosopher and cognitive scientist David Chalmers warns about an AI-dominated future world without consciousness at a recent conference on artificial intelligence that also included Elon Musk, Ray Kurzweil, Sam Harris, Demis Hassabis and others.

Feeling a bit queasy these days? Small wonder. We are awash in disruption. Clearly, the d-word has long since become a trend in its own right.

Opinion piece by Ijad Madisch, co-founder and CEO of ResearchGate, the professional network that connects the world of science and opens research up to all.

Squeezed budgets for basic research will make it harder to respond to disease outbreaks and other global threats, say Arturo Casadevall & Ferric Fang.

Without data on how artificial intelligence is affecting jobs, policymakers will fly blind into the next industrial revolution, say Tom Mitchell and Erik Brynjolfsson.

The hypercompetitive world of biomedical research occasionally drives scientists to cheat. More often, scientists make decisions that undercut their results. That can lead colleagues astray.

 Open data, code, materials and other reasons make blog posts score better on some core scientific values.

As researchers prepare for the science march, it's worth noting that the flip-side of Trump's anti-science is a sort of alt-science appeasement on the left.

You might see science as splashy headlines and a barrage of new results—but in the background are people with emotions and ambitions, politics, and a system that promotes publishing novel findings above all. A new paper on eel navigation highlights some of these systemic troubles.

How is machine learning becoming increasingly intertwined with a range of research fields?

Machines still have a long way to go before they learn like humans do – and that’s a potential danger to privacy, safety, and more.

The impact of crisis of reproducibility on the patent system.

Science diplomacy enables scientists to help tackle issues such as protectionism and government control over research findings, and could even mitigate the future threat of wars over knowledge and data.

The broad response was encouraging for science advocates and underscores the need to continue to push for open policies open.

Making the case for a European Open Access Platform.

As he cuts federal research and targets immigration, Trump has neglected and marginalized the White House’s own team of experts.

We assume that creativity and innovation belong to the young. We’re wrong.

Creators of a free tool that locates open-access versions of research articles are hoping to make scholarly publishers rethink their business models.

Bruce Stillman, president of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, sat down with STAT to share his thoughts on everything from research funding to President Trump.

Are we ready to give up traditional financial and governance control in favour of decentralised blockchain applications harbouring greater transparency?

The principles of openness, transparency, and reproducibility might be weaponized to defund and deny research.

Science and technology are so central to the economy, defense, and other top-tier issues that President Trump should appoint a science advisor soon.

Science isn’t just about explosions. But can children as young as 3 understand what it’s really about?

Canada’s experience with virtual panels shows that the status quo should be challenged, not accepted unthinkingly.

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.