Societies push back against NIH reproducibility guidelines
'Premature' rules for preclinical research need more flexibility and greater community involvement, say scientific society leaders.
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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.
Harold Varmus to resign as head of US cancer institute
The NCI call it the end of an era. Harold Varmus, director of the US NCI and former director of the NIH, announced on 4 March that he will be stepping down from his post at the end of the month.
To tweet or not to tweet?
Not only are scientific articles that have strong coverage in social media likely to be cited more in the future, social media is also the tool that allows us to communicate directly with the general public.
When right beats might
When right beats might
The final act in a long-running saga should bring tighter controls on unproven therapies, both at home and abroad.
Journal publishes 200-word papers
Researchers are buzzing about a publication that accepts only 'brief ideas'.
Why data sharing should be the expected norm
The Institute of Medicine takes a step in the right direction but we should move even faster.
Survey shows that how scientists should engage the public
A survey finds that 87% of scientists agree with the statement “Scientists should take an active role in public policy debates about issues related to science and technology.
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A network boost
How scientists can use Twitter to expand their social contacts and find jobs.
Bigger is not better when it comes to lab size
An analysis linking the number of researchers in a lab to productivity spurs online debate.
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