Ben Goldacre on why a ban on researchers speaking to politicians and policymakers fails the taxpayers who fund them

The Royal Society’s new campaign highlights the importance of life outside the laboratory

New startups like this one are trying to disrupt traditional academic publishing.

Reanalysis of last year's enormous replication study argues that there is no need to be so pessimistic.

The psychology establishment is fighting back against an attack on its reliability. But it might be letting emotion get in the way.

Universities need to expand international engagement to remain competitive, according to a report by Digital Science.

Reflecting on the plight of the early career scholar prompts Xenia Schmalz to draw up a research manifesto.

Deutschland hat keine Rohstoffe, daher braucht es das beste Wissenschaftssystem. Gleich nach der Wahl müssen wichtige Entscheidungen getroffen werden.

The effects of federal budget cuts provide an opportunity to revisit the funding structure of the National Institutes of Health.

European collaboration is not far behind that in the United States, but there is still work to be done on cross-border funding and financial inequalities, says Paul Boyle.

The main factors determining the success of crowdfunding campaigns, and a comparison with the use of traditional funding sources.

Efforts to promote interdisciplinary research that addresses complex interactions between humans and their environment have become commonplace in recent years, but success is often elusive.

Science stands as an ideological force insofar as it offers the answers to a variety of fundamental questions and concerns; as such, those who pursue scientific inquiry have been shown to be concerned with the moral and social ramifications of their scientific endeavors.

Many biases affect scientific research, causing a waste of resources, posing a threat to human health, and hampering scientific progress. These problems are hypothesized to be worsened by lack of consensus on theories and methods, by selective publication processes, and by career systems too heavily oriented toward productivity, such as those adopted in the US.

On how scientific publishers are struggling to maintain their stranglehold over scientists.

Three years after the OSTP directive, policies to make data and publications resulting from federally funded research publicly accessible are becoming the norm.

Technological change is accelerating today at an unprecedented speed and could create a world we can barely begin to imagine.

How Sci-Hub breaks the paywall and how did academic journals get so expensive?

The success rate of discoveries would be improved if we could find out how to innovate.

PhD holders should not underestimate their value to industry and the business sector.

The gravitational waves theorist saw physics as no one else did, but if he was around today his time would be spent chasing grants or tenures.

How to do great research, get it published, and improve health outcomes.

The traditional way of publishing new findings in journals is becoming increasingly outdated and no longer serves the needs of much of science.

If we want to embed equality and diversity in research culture, any future use of metrics to assess research must not adversely affect specific groups or researchers.

It’s rare for scientists to get much systematic or public recognition for their reviewing efforts

Mistakes in peer-reviewed papers are easy to find but hard to fix.

Reproducibility should be at science’s heart. It isn’t. But that may soon change.

The fashion for making employees collaborate has gone too far.