This paper examines how patterns of knowledge diffusion can forecast the collapse of scientific 'bubbles', highlighting that sustained scientific advancement requires diverse audiences.

The swift evolution of AI technologies calls for policymakers to consider and proactively manage AI-driven change. This OECD's report distils research and expert insights on prospective AI benefits, risks and policy imperatives.

Frontier scientific discoveries increasingly rely on big-science research infrastructures. This study investigates the effects of one of China’s prominent big-science infrastructures on the country’s production of science. 

To what extent does academic success follow success? The dynamics of citation and wealth inequality may be surprisingly similar.

Black and Hispanic professors fare worse when voters include colleagues who are less familiar with their work, new study finds

This article advocates for a closer study of the forms of citizenship nurtured among individual participants in citizen science (CS) projects by highlighting some salient features of CS in China.

The US House of Representatives is more likely to vote on climate action when it is linked with certain other environmental issues

In this small randomized trial, research funding did not have a clear impact on researcher productivity. However, the expanded use of modified lotteries in the allocation of grant funding has the potential to revolutionize the measurement of research productivity. 

Replacing research animals with tools that better mimic human biology could improve medicine.

Large language models strongly associated negative stereotypes with African American English

Journals that do not charge authors or readers struggle with staffing and budgeting, study finds

When evidence-based policymaking is so often mired in disagreement and controversy, how can we know if the process is meeting its stated goals? 

Leading experts in regulation and ethics at the Oxford Internet Institute, have identified a new type of harm created by LLMs which they believe poses long-term risks to democratic societies and needs to be addressed by creating a new legal duty for LLM providers.

Enhancing the right to science is increasingly recognized as a central piece in the multi-facetted puzzle of solving the triple planetary crisis. Its role as a cross-cutting catalyst in relation to other human rights dimensions of major global challenges from pandemics, biodiversity, toxics to climate change, calls for far more comprehensive attention to the bundle of rights linking science, scientists and scientific practice to contemporary sustainability responses

If we act now, scientists say, we can prevent human-caused extinctions wiping out our planet’s wildlife.