Lawmakers advance controversial science-policy bill
Republicans in the House of Representatives seek to reshape research agenda.
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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.
The Leiden Manifesto for research metrics
Use these ten principles to guide research evaluation, urge Diana Hicks, Paul Wouters and colleagues.
Societies push back against NIH reproducibility guidelines
'Premature' rules for preclinical research need more flexibility and greater community involvement, say scientific society leaders.
Researchers welcome €5-billion funding boost
Germany's ruling political parties have agreed to plough €5 billion (US$5.4 billion) more into science from 2018 to 2028.
Scientists genetically modify human embryos
Rumours of germline modification prove true — and look set to reignite an ethical debate.
Leading scientists favour women in tenure-track hiring test
US science and engineering professors preferred female job candidates by two to one.
California unveils 'precision-medicine' project
The $3-million state initiative will coordinate with a national effort to promote individualized patient treatment.
Rule rewrite aims to clean up scientific software
Nature Biotechnology asks peer reviewers to check accessibility of code used in computational studies.
Wanted: staff-scientist positions for postdocs
Nature readers favour creating more secure jobs to fix science’s broken postdoctoral system.
Reward bioinformaticians
Biological data will continue to pile up unless those who analyse it are recognized as creative collaborators in need of career paths, says Jeffrey Chang.
The future of the postdoc
There is a growing number of postdocs and few places in academia for them to go. But change could be on the way.
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Communication breakdown
A policy change that could discourage UK government scientists from talking to the media is a backwards step. All researchers need to speak up to put science on the political agenda.
Biotech boot camp
US funding agencies are turning to a Silicon Valley entrepreneur to focus fledgling biomedical companies on success — even when that means making a scientific course correction.
Europe's research commissioner lays out his ambitions
Europe's research commissioner Carlos Moedas on funding models, diplomacy and scientific advice.
President of Japan's RIKEN research labs resigns
Ryoji Noyori, long-time president of Japan's RIKEN network of basic-research laboratories, has resigned after a year in which the organization was embroiled in controversy over fraudulent stem-cell papers.
A clean, green science machine
As the world warms and technology improves, researchers and institutions should look at their carbon footprints and question whether they really need to travel to academic conferences.
In the beginning
This month marks the 350th anniversary of arguably the first and longest-running scientific journal, Philosophical Transactions: Giving Some Accompt of the Present Undertakings, Studies, and Labours of the Ingenious in Many Considerable Parts of the World.
Mistrust and meddling unsettles US science agency
Republicans in the US Congress have put the NSF under the microscope, questioning its decisions on individual grants and the purpose of entire fields of study.
Science on the map
Science on the map
Easy-to-use mapping tools give researchers the power to create beautiful visualizations of geographic data.
Human Brain Project votes for leadership change
Europe's ambitious but contentious €1-billion HBP has announced changes to its organization in a response to criticism of its management and scientific trajectory by many high-ranking neuroscientists.
Psychology journal bans P values
A controversial statistical test has finally met its end, at least in one journal.
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