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A good book evokes a variety of emotions as you read. Turns out, though, that almost all novels and plays provide one of only six “emotional experiences” from beginning to end—a rags-to-riches exuberance, say, or a rise and fall of hope.
Organs are not the only item of value from the deceased.
The Turkish government must stop university dismissals and commit itself to creating a welcoming research environment if its grand plans for science are to succeed.
Policymakers should read the contents of published papers and not just count them, says Dyna Rochmyaningsih.
The War on Science is more than a skirmish over funding, censorship, and “alternative facts”. It’s a battle for the future, basic decency, and the people we love.
In this Viewpoint, Ioannidis discusses the problem of nonreproducibility in biomedical research and proposes implementing reproducibility assessments to improve research practices.
Virtualitics launches software that immerses viewers in complex models of data
The debate about open access has until now focused on the gold (journals) versus the green route (manuscript self‐archival).
In this approach, the goal of a scientist is transformed from convincing an editorial board through a vertical process to convincing peers through an horizontal one.
Practical experience and no student debt make vocational training an enticing career option
In the 1960s three African-American women helped put astronauts into orbit. Hidden Figures tells their story, but women in science are still battling inequality.
Research on academics’ writing practices has revealed tensions around the ways in which managerial practices interact with academics’ individual career goals, disciplinary values and sense of scholarly identity.
It started with a tweet, but now it's an international movement. Spurred by concerns about the impact President Donald Trump's administration might have on research, the March for Science is "a call to support and safeguard the scientific community."
Paul Cairney counsels homework and lots of patience.
When politics meddles with science, it can lead to tragedy, as was the case with Stalin's favourite agricultural biologist Trofim Lysenko and his rival Nikolai Vavilov.
The EU should listen to the innovators, knowledge creators and developers when it comes to data mining: the potential benefits are too great to be ignored, writes Helen Frew.
This is one of our biggest failures as a scientific community — we haven’t done a good job of actually communicating with people about what we do.
Replacing the real world with a virtual one is a neat trick. Combining the two could be more useful.
For publishers, this moment of political upheaval has the potential to allow them to reboot their fraught relationships with libraries, universities, and scientists.
In the wake of the Flint water crisis and with a new notably anti-science president, U.S. scientists are reevaluating how to navigate the tension between speaking out and a fear of losing research funding.
Without an open source model, the world outside the technology sector will continue to struggle in its adoption of Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning.
How does interdisciplinary research influence scholarship and scholarly careers?
“”Imagination is more important than knowledge.” - Albert Einstein
Meta, a data science company, has been acquired by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, whose aim is to accelerate the pace of scientific advances.
Yasmine Tadjine argues that more research funding and charitable donations should be given to less well-known illnesses.
