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South Korea trumpets $860-million AI fund after AlphaGo shock
Historic win by Google DeepMind's Go-playing program has South Korean government playing catch-up on artificial intelligence.
Cultural conundrum
The Chinese government’s professed commitment to transparency and responsiveness has had a rocky start.
Set up a ‘self-retraction’ system for honest errors
Notices should make obvious whether a withdrawal of research is the result of misconduct or a genuine mistake, says Daniele Fanelli.
Excluded, intimidated and harassed: LGBT physicists face discrimination
Transgender people are the most affected.
Australian cryptologists concerned by restrictive exports law
Other scientists also say the need to get a permit for applied ‘dual-use’ research may constrain academic freedom.
The FAIR Guiding Principles for scientific data management and stewardship
The FAIR Guiding Principles for scientific data management and stewardship
There is an urgent need to improve the infrastructure supporting the reuse of scholarly data. A diverse set of stakeholders—representing academia, industry, funding agencies, and scholarly publishers—have come together to design and jointly endorse a concise and measureable set of principles that we refer to as the FAIR Data Principles.
The elephant in the room we can’t ignore
If Donald Trump were to trigger a crisis in Western democracy, scientists would need to look at their part in its downfall, says Colin Macilwain.
Living factories of the future
Scientists are designing cells that can manufacture drugs, food and materials and even act as diagnostic biosensors.
Team up with industry
Combining commercial and academic incentives and resources can improve science, argues Aled Edwards.
How many replication studies are enough?
Researchers on social media ask at what point replication efforts go from useful to wasteful.
Web widget nudges scientists to share their data
Open Data Button launched to encourage public sharing of data sets.
Group dynamics: A lab of their own
The make-up of a lab is crucial to success in publishing its research — and now, scientists are exploring how to compose the best research group possible.
‘Open-hardware’ pioneers push for low-cost lab kit
Conference aims to raise awareness of shared resources for building lab equipment.
Statisticians issue warning over misuse of P-values
Policy statement aims to halt missteps in the quest for certainty: the misuse of the P value is contributing to the number of research findings that cannot be reproduced warns the American Statistical Association.
Women under-represented in world’s science academies
Fewer than half of academies have policies in place to boost gender equality in membership.
Lab life: Lone-parent scientist : Naturejobs
Limited institutional resources mean that single parents often need a network of support to further their scientific careers.
Paper that says human hand was 'designed by Creator' sparks concern
Paper that says human hand was 'designed by Creator' sparks concern
Apparently creationist research prompts soul searching over process of editing and peer review.
Psychology’s reproducibility problem is exaggerated – say psychologists
Reanalysis of last year's enormous replication study argues that there is no need to be so pessimistic.
The manuscript-editing marketplace
A peer-to-peer website aims to disrupt the author-services industry.
It is time to update US biomedical funding
It is time to update US biomedical funding
The effects of federal budget cuts provide an opportunity to revisit the funding structure of the National Institutes of Health.
A single market for European research
A single market for European research
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.
More cuts loom for US science
Laura Niedernhofer is counting her pennies. The mid-career molecular biologist moved last year to the Scripps Research Institute's campus in Jupiter, Florida - a risky decision that saw her building a new laboratory group at a time when the US government was cutting its support for science.
Route too costly, UK report says
The route to open-access publishing endorsed by the British government puts unacceptable strains on research budgets at a time of funding shortages. The report also argues for more transparency and competition in the costs of publishing research.
A world where everyone has a robot: why 2040 could blow your mind
Technological change is accelerating today at an unprecedented speed and could create a world we can barely begin to imagine.
Academics fall short in reporting results of clinical trials
Only one-third of trials at US medical centres are reported within two years of completion.
Put innovation science at the heart of discovery
The success rate of discoveries would be improved if we could find out how to innovate.