Knowing the world may require giving up on understanding it.

The president’s proposed cuts to research funding would cripple American innovation. We should be spending more on R&D, not less.

How might machine learning shape the way we move through and interact with the immediate environment around us?

Patients in red states and blue states alike benefit from work funded by the National Institutes of Health

They say they don't have the time or incentives to do research — and that’s dangerous for translational medicine.

Thoughts and reflections on the role that open research can play in defining the purpose and activities of the university.

Getting researcher buy-in to new tools and systems can be challenging - even when those tools are intended to help free them of administrative burden.

The academic paper has some inherent limitations—chief among them, that it can provide only a summary of a given research project.

When does a preprint become a publication?

Researchers should spend more trying to reproduce other scientists' results.

Scientists need to learn how to communicate science strategically.

Beth Simone Noveck urges researchers to work out how technology can improve public institutions.

An overview of recent events and the current state of preprints in the scholarly communications landscape.

Breaking the cycle in which only highly profitable drugs reach the market is not just the responsibility of government.

As climate change accelerates, a handful of scientists are eager to move ahead with experiments testing ways to counteract warming artificially.

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.