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As a long-term champion of open-access research data on pandemic viruses and a member of the Italian Parliament, I urge Brazil to hasten the reform of its current biosecurity legislation. This would enable sharing of vital Zika virus samples and information, as recently called for by the World Health Organization…
Software tools such as knitr and R Markdown allow the description and code of a statistical analysis to be combined into a single document, providing a pipeline from the raw data to the final results and figures. Outputs are updated by re-running the scripts using version-control tools such as Git and GitHub.
Universities and colleges should stop using the quantity of published articles as a measure of academic performance. Researchers and respectable journals should not cite articles from predatory journals, and academic library databases should exclude metadata for such publications.
More than 500 million people and 28 nations make up the European Union. It will lose one of its richest, most populous members, if the United Kingdom votes to leave on 23 June. Ahead of a possible ‘Brexit’, Nature examines five core ways that the EU shapes the course of research.
Researchers tease out different definitions of a crucial scientific term.
The fast-moving field of gene-drive research provides an opportunity to rewrite the rules of the science, says Kevin Esvelt.
Common compliance situations can get good researchers into trouble, warn James M. DuBois and colleagues.
Two researchers today launch a game that captures this anarchic spirit. Board-game fans Caezar Al-Jassar, a postdoc at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, UK, and Kuly Heer, a clinical psychologist, have designed the card game Lab Wars to represent the scientific rat race, with extra sabotage.
Government can't say how many policy studies it paid for or published, report reveals.
Some admire project's ambition; others say it hasn't justified its aims.
The establishment of an agency in Indonesia that will support 'frontier research' is a welcome development, argues Dyna Rochmyaningsih.
Biology's big funders announce investment will continue to 2022.
Archivists are borrowing and adapting techniques used in criminal investigations to access data and files created in now-obsolete systems.
Overtime pay for postdoctoral scientists is welcome — but could mean fewer positions.
Survey sheds light on the ‘crisis’ rocking research.
Drug researcher David Nutt discusses brain-imaging studies with hallucinogens and how he needed to crowdfund the resources to analyse the data.
Revisiting the past can help to inform ideas of the present: science without consensus would be chaos. But the price of consensus is eternal vigilance against complacency, and a willingness to contemplate the road otherwise not travelled.
Evolve governance structures, practices and metrics to accelerate innovation in an era of digital connectivity, writes Martin Curley.
A science writer challenges the sceptics community to move beyond tackling just ‘easy’ issues.
Governments need to tighten regulation if the sharing of clinical-trial data is to succeed.
Graduate students struggling with the stresses of their work and lives can tap into multiple avenues of support.
The Social Science Research Network says that it will continue to offer free submissions and downloads under its new owner.
The value that Australia places on publication quality over quantity has elevated it into the top echelon of science. Can it now improve its flagging track record in commercialization?
Austrian social scientist Helga Nowotny was president of the European Research Council between 2010 and 2013. Now a professor emerita of ETH Zurich and author of The Cunning of Uncertainty (Polity, 2015), Nowotny discusses the growing pressure to capitalize on academic research, and how countries can get it right in the absence of a universal recipe.
In the fiercely competitive world of drug discovery and development, secrecy is no longer as important as it once was.
Open competitions bring new minds, skills and collaborations to problems in biomedical research.
