The struggle to keep this resistant yeast from surging is a warning sign that relying on standard responses won't work. As the foes continue to evolve, medicine needs both new tech, and surprisingly old techniques, to fight its microbial wars.

After studying 23,005 comments left on videos about science and related topics, a researcher says, “I could see why people would not want to be on YouTube.”

One-quarter of surveyed institutions admit to not complying with guidelines.

In an era in which evidence is being disregarded, scientists need to speak up in support of the pursuit for truth.  If we do not successively train our youth to distinguish between truth and falsehood, we are at risk of raising a new generation unused to recognizing truth as derived from evidence.

Where would we be without our glassware? Tabitha Watson looks through the history and current state of chemistry's favourite amorphous solid.

In examining compensation records from drug companies to physicians who advised FDA, Science found widespread after-the-fact payments or research support to panel members. The agency's safeguards against potential conflicts of interest are not designed to prevent such future financial ties.

After her postdoc, this scientist built an editing business while traveling the world.

The story so far regarding the opinion piece in The Guardian expressing deep concerns with Elsevier as the sole contractor for the new European Commission Open Science Monitor.

"Elsevier is still not willing to offer a deal in the form of a nationwide agreement in Germany that responds to the needs of the academic community in line with the principles of open access and that is financially sustainable," says Horst Hippler, the lead negotiator and spokesperson for the DEAL Project Steering Committee.

Overshadowed by the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), another frightening virus is on the loose in that vast, chaotic country: polio. Public health experts have worked for months to stamp out the virus, but it keeps spreading.

Doctoral students can use writing meet-ups to overcome isolation and depression and boost their motivation, says Karra Harrington.

A requirement that research faculty members obtain grants to achieve tenure is, in some cases, patently unethical, argues Scott O. Lilienfeld.

    The First International Day of LGBTQ+ People in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Maths July 5th, 2018

A formal complaint to the European Commission Ombudsman regarding the relationship between Elsevier and the Open Science Monitor.

From the normally mild summer climes of Ireland, Scotland and Canada to the scorching Middle East, numerous locations in the Northern Hemisphere have witnessed their hottest weather ever recorded over the past week.

The objective of this scoping review is to summarize the literature on predatory journals, describe its epidemiological characteristics, and to extract empirical descriptions of potential characteristics of predatory journals.

What models or practices could be developed to help incentivize and reward innovation and diverse forms of scholarly communication and public engagement while reducing the risk to those who are seen to be diverging from traditional modes of professional practices and advancement?

A web application showing how successful universities or research-focused institutions collaborate.

If only I had known then what I know now, 16 years later, this is what I would have told myself.

This free tool helps you shortlist verified open access journals from DOAJ for publishing your manuscript thereby safeguarding you from predatory journals.

The European country’s autocratic government has made a disturbing grab at the nation’s scientific institutions.

A reflection as the seventh editor-in-chief of Nature hands over to the eighth.

There is an urgent need to strengthen funding for the interaction between science and society, but the EU's proposal for Horizon Europe does not foresee a programme dedicated to Science with and for Society. 

Some of the field’s most notable thinkers call on the American Psychiatric Association to permit discussion of public figures' mental health in some cases. 

A heuristic (exploratory) comparison of several new, free / mainstream academic search tools, concluding that their effectivness improves if an institution's library licenses them for off-campus authentication.

What’s the scientific value of the Stanford Prison Experiment? Zimbardo responds to the new allegations against his work.

Even after a paper’s retracted, it will continue to be cited - often by researchers who don’t realize the findings are problematic.

Performance evaluations are designed to be meritocratic. Unfortunately, they can exacerbate the very gender inequities they are striving to reduce.

"It's hard to see yourself in a career where you don't see other people who are like you."