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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.
Who is responsible for producing US science? To a large degree, the answer is: immigrants.
What Might Have Been Learnt From Discogs and IMDB
Drone technology is quickly evolving from a geeky accessory to multi-billion dollar industry.
A European professor and journal editor argues that the use of AI in peer review could hamper scientific advancement.
Discussing the role of investigators in the authorship of industry-sponsored publications.
It’s vital to improve public trust in science and expertise. But science is increasingly complex, and getting harder to explain.
As expectations of early career researchers rise ever higher, some established colleagues are failing to pull their weight.
Programming tools can speed up and strengthen analyses, but mastering the skills takes time and can be daunting.
Are we leaving behind the age of statistics, and entering a new age of big data controlled by private companies?
Moonshots, road maps, frameworks and more are proliferating, but few can agree on what these names even mean.
Do journals do a good job of finding appropriate peers to review papers? Are editors always in the best place to decide the fate of a paper based on a severely limited sampling of peer reports?
President Trump’s unconventional stances cannot go unchallenged.
This viewpoint proposes using a sharing index or S-index to measure investigators’ engagement in sharing research data.
Do popular science articles make the public overconfident about their own expertise?
