Scientists take to the streets over funding
Scientists take to the streets over funding
Researchers leave their labs to call for greater public support of research.
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NIH to retire all research chimps
NIH director Francis Collins announced that the 50 NIH-owned animals that remain available for research will be sent to sanctuaries.
Research for all
Numbers on racial bias in research grants awarded by the NIH show that science has more to learn about inclusiveness.
Science and sexism
Social media is shaking up how scientists talk about gender issues.
EC names seven researchers as its top science advisers
The outgoing head of CERN is among a group of seven researchers who will form a panel to provide independent scientific advice to the European Commission.
Artificial intelligence institute launches free science search engine
Semantic Scholar comes from centre backed by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen.
Troubled billion-euro Brain Project secures another three years' funding
European Commission hopes agreement will restore lost confidence.
Does innovation always come from science?
Essay triggers lively arguments over how basic science should be funded.
A century of physics
An analysis of WoS data spanning more than 100 years reveals the rapid growth and increasing multidisciplinarity of physics, as well its internal map of subdisciplines.
Science papers rarely cited in negative ways
On [22]the incidence and role of negative citations in science.
Massive pool of US biomedical postdocs starts to shrink
A decades-long surge in the numbers of US biomedical postdocs may finally have ended..
2015 Nature graduate-student survey
Graduate students dream of academia but are keeping their career options open, according to a 2015 Nature survey.
Over 60% of 2015 research articles on Nature.com are OA
Sixty three per cent of original research articles published to date on nature.com in 2015 are open access, nearly 10,000 papers. Ten years ago, NPG introduced its first fully open access journal. Today, NPG publishes over 80 journals with an open access option.
Biomedical researchers lax in checking for imposter cell lines
Many scientists still not bothering to address an issue that undermines the reproducibility of research findings.
Empowering citizen scientists
Scientists should consider engaging more with the DIYbio community.
Many hands make tight work
Crowdsourcing research can balance discussions, validate findings and better inform policy.
How scientists fool themselves and how they can stop
Humans are remarkably good at self-deception. But growing concern about reproducibility is driving many researchers to seek ways to fight their own worst instincts.
Make academic job advertisements fair to all
Too many university posts are given to men without proper competition.
US National Academies issue call to cut red tape
US National Academies issue call to cut red tape
Report warns that growing government regulations detracts from research.
How to catalyse collaboration
Turn the fraught flirtation between the social and biophysical sciences into fruitful partnerships with five principles.
Interdisciplinary research by the numbers
An analysis reveals the extent and impact of research that bridges disciplines.
Unpatients - why patients should own their medical data
Unpatients - why patients should own their medical data
For the benefits of digital medicine to be fully realized, we need not only to find a shared home for personal health data but also to give individuals the right to own them.
Agencies plan research-ethics overhaul
Long-awaited revision proposed for regulations governing studies of human subjects.
Report claims success for elite universities drive
Report praises US$5-billion scheme for making leading universities more competitive - but some smaller institutions have done just as well.
Women are funded more fairly in social science
UK data hold lessons for how to close the gender gap in bioscience grant applications, success and size, argue Paul Boyle and colleagues.
Institutions must do their part for reproducibility
Tie funding to verified good institutional practice, and robust science will shoot up the agenda.
PubPeer founders reveal themselves, create foundation
The creators of PubPeer dropped their own anonymity today, as part of an announcement about a new chapter in the life of the post-publication peer review site..
Biohackers gear up for genome editing
Amateurs are ready and able to try the CRISPR technique for rewriting genes.
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