Traditional values will not serve us well when it comes to debating the ethics of novel technologies such as self-driving cars. We need a new moral code.

University research and the fetishisation of excellence

Many professors frequently write tenure-review letters, but as a community, we’re not regularly discussing how we should be doing so, argues Eric Goldman.

John Morgan considers the impact on students and US scholars, and the political earthquake’s potential positives

Accounting for equity and justice for patients, clinicians, academics, publishers, funders and academic institutions.

Technological change demands stronger and more continuous connections between education and employment, says Andrew Palmer.

How Congress and Trump could affect the chemistry enterprise.

From immunotherapies to diagnostics, an expert panel outlines research goals for broad initiative.

Technological change demands stronger and more continuous connections between education and employment.

Despite frequent claims to the contrary, social media tools such as Twitter can be incredibly valuable for scholars.

The potential advantages and challenges involved in a shift away from for-profit journals in favor of institutional open access publishing.

A small number of scientists band together to reference each other’s work, gaming the citation system to make their studies appear to be more important.

Understanding the unwritten rules of graduate study is vital if you want to get the most from your PhD supervision.

Nobel prizewinning astrophysicist reflects on the perceptions and realities of how big breakthroughs are made.

After a decade of progress, Argentina’s scientists are battling a government bent on twisting public conceptions of their role.

It’s often argued that studying the liberal arts will enrich the life of the mind. For STEM majors, it can also give them a practical advantage in their careers.

With corporate funding of research, “there’s no scientist who comes out of this unscathed.”

Peer-review had a role to play when journals were all in print and competing for subscription real estate, but today it may be little more than a vestige of the print era.

As the NIH questions the place of preprints in grant applications, the U.K.’s MRC encourages scientists to submit non-peer-reviewed works for consideration.

The current peer-review system is limited to asking two people for their opinions - this is not enough.

Dame Athene Donald laments the lack of progress on gender issues

Evading science communication simply because it is difficult, time-consuming or not important enough reflects more on how much scientists value their own work and its place in posterity.

Leaving the European Union is not yet a done deal, and UK researchers must look past a pay-off and take a stand, says Colin Macilwain.

Debates over climate change and genome editing present the need for researchers to venture beyond their comfort zones to engage with citizens — and they should receive credit for doing so.

There's quite a paradox when it comes to our health data. Most of us still cannot readily look at it, but there’s been an epidemic of cybercriminals and thieves hacking and stealing this most personal information. By Eric Topol.

Four steps toward an alternative academic career.

Last year, I served on a couple NSF panels*, and I’d like to share some thoughts. Instead of a coherent narrative, I’ll just give a bulleted set of observations and ideas.

Mr. Beall’s website, which identifies “predatory open access scholarly publishers” that masquerade as scholarly journals, has grown to 923 publishers from 18 in 2011.

Universal Green OA Is the Most Efficient and Fairest of Science Publishing Strategies.

So why make your work available as preprints? There are perceived positives and negatives to disclosing scientific work in the form of a preprint, explored here in the form of 10 Simple Rules.