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What Are Funders Doing to Minimise Waste in Research?
Steps to reduce waste of funds in research.
Code Is the White Whale of Reproducibility In Science
And more than a little quixotic.
A Lack of Ideological Diversity Is Killing Social Research
Without more conservative perspectives in the academy, lawmakers will increasingly ignore and potentially defund social science.
Silicon Valley Would Rather Cure Death Than Make Life Worth Living
Silicon Valley is coming for death. But it’s looking in the wrong place.
Science Funding Is a Gamble So Let's Give out Money by Lottery
Would it be better to do away with the search for excellence, and to fund science by lottery?
Changing Latin America’s Culture of Insular Science
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.
Are Biomedical Researchers Forgetting Females?
Last year, NIH implemented a policy to push scientists to consider how sex affects biological systems. Critics worry it goes too far.
Step Out Of The Lab and Engage
Last month I found myself sitting on a leather couch, my black dress smoothed over my knees, in a hushed wood-paneled room in Washington, D.C.
How to Resist Threats to Science
Broader forms of activism are needed to protect evidence-based policy.
Europe Can Build on Scientific Intuition
Carlos Moedas sees a bold future for the European Research Council and more projects that copy its approach.
Axios Review a failed experiment in outsourcing peer review?
Axios Review a failed experiment in outsourcing peer review?
Does the closing of @AxiosReview portend the end of independent peer review, or just the wrong business model?
My Uncle, CEO of Intel, Time Person of the Year and an Immigrant
My uncle immigrated to the United States in 1956 with no assets, a brilliant mind, ambition, and a faith that America was a great country of opportunity. He escaped from Hungary, a country of communists, at the time a source of great fear among many US politicians. If the US President at his time were making policy similar to our President today, my uncle would’ve never been allowed in the US.
Spoiled Science
How a seemingly innocent blog post led to serious doubts about Cornell’s famous food laboratory.
After 75 Years, Isaac Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics Need Updating
Today's robots and artificial intelligence look very different from the androids conceived by Isaac Asimov.
Scientists Brace for a Lost Generation in American Research
Private funding isn't enough to offset the president's proposed budget cuts, they say.
Academics Can Change the World – If They Stop Talking Only to Their Peers
Very few academics do a great deal to share their often important and relevant research with the general public. What's holding them back?
How Can We Tackle the Thorny Problem of Fraudulent Research?
Misconduct in academia isn’t rampant but should be taken more seriously: let’s consider independent anti-corruption units
The Science 'Reproducibility Crisis' – and What Can Be Done About It
The Science 'Reproducibility Crisis' – and What Can Be Done About It
We asked three experts for their takes.
Why Is Silicon Valley So Awful to Women?
Tech companies are spending hundreds of millions of dollars to improve conditions for female employees. Here’s why not much has changed—and what might actually work.