US project aims for ethnic balance
Massive study seeks to succeed where others failed, but faces tight deadline and questions about strategy.
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Survey results released last week by the American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) included an interesting nugget. Some 72% of respondents said that they had been unable to replicate a published experimental result. Yet a higher proportion (77%) said that they had never been told that their work could not be replicated.
Collaborate and listen to reproduce research
Better communication between labs may resolve many reproducibility problems, according to [28]report.
Science professors need leadership training
To drive discovery, scientists heading up research teams large and small need to learn how people operate, argue C. Leiserson and C. McVinney.
Don't distort policy in the name of national pride
What can go wrong when governments use research to make a country look good.
Science foundation shuts down
Dynasty Foundation liquidated after Ministry of Justice labels it a 'foreign agent'.
Genome researchers raise alarm over big data
Storing and processing genome data will exceed the computing challenges of running YouTube and Twitter.
A numbers game
Institutions must be plain about research metrics if academics are to engage with them.
Greek scientists lose access to digital journals
The country's economic crisis is hitting researchers hard.
Practical policies can combat gender inequality
Mechanisms to help researchers to balance work and home lives have made a positive difference to the gender balance at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research in Melbourne.
Vaccine researcher sentenced to prison for fraud
The case of Dong-Pyou Han illustrates the uneven nature of penalties for scientific misconduct.
The Francis Crick Institute: Europe's superlab
When the Francis Crick Institute opens in London this year, it will be Europe’s largest biomedical research centre. Can director Paul Nurse make this gamble pay off for UK science?
Risky business
Funding agencies should highlight their roles as risk managers to underpin public trust.
'Export rules' threaten research
The US government is considering policy changes that could dramatically affect how researchers handle equipment and information that have national-security implications. Scientists would need to reconsider what they can discuss with graduate students from other countries, or when traveling abroad on work trips.
French scientists welcome new research minister
Thierry Mandon replaces Geneviève Fioraso, who stepped down in March for health reasons, leaving France without anyone heading the research brief for three months.
Funders must encourage scientists to share
To realize the full potential of large data sets, researchers must agree on better ways to pass data around, says Martin Bobrow.
Undue burdens
Proposed controls on foreign operations in China are a threat to scientific collaboration.
Election results delight scientists
Election results delight scientists
Researchers hope that a more pluralistic parliament will put an end to interference and slipping standards.
Irreproducible biology research costs put at $28 billion per year
Study calculates cost of flawed biomedical research in the US.
Sluggish data sharing hampers reproducibility effort
Initiative trying to validate 50 cancer papers finds difficulty in accessing original study data.
Lawmakers advance controversial science-policy bill
Republicans in the House of Representatives seek to reshape research agenda.
UK universities slow to publish reports of misconduct investigations
Just a fraction of universities in the United Kingdom have made public the extent of their investigations into research misconduct, a survey has found - even though all have been told that they should do so.
ORCID unveils plan to recognize efforts of peer-reviewers
Movement to publicly record peer-reviewing activity gains momentum.
Researchers fret about downgrading of science minister role
Jo Johnson is smart and well-connected, but will not attend highest-level policy meetings.
The trouble with reference rot
Computer scientists are trying to shore up broken links in the scholarly literature.
First results from psychology's largest reproducibility test
An ambitious [11]effort to replicate 100 research findings in psychology ended last week - and the data look worrying.
The retirement debate
You're in your 60s. Should you stay in the lab, or make way for the next generation?
P values are just the tip of the iceberg
Ridding science of shoddy statistics will require scrutiny of every step, not merely the last one.
How one case brought a biology institute to its knees
The fall out from the STAP case is still being felt across Japan.
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