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Is Competition Driving Innovation or Damaging Scientific Research?

Is Competition Driving Innovation or Damaging Scientific Research?

Far from driving scientific progress, competition is actually taking a negative toll on research output. We need a new model of working that encourages transparency, openness and may improve research standards.

CHF950m Large Hadron Collider Upgrade 'Could Upend Particle Physics'

CHF950m Large Hadron Collider Upgrade 'Could Upend Particle Physics'

A massive project to supercharge the world’s largest particle collider launched in the hope that the beefed-up machine will reveal fresh insights into the nature of the universe.

I Struggle to Hire Academics, Because Candidates Are Too Good

I Struggle to Hire Academics, Because Candidates Are Too Good

I’m deluged with outstanding applications for academic posts. So should I recruit the people who need the job most?

Why Thousands of AI Researchers Are Boycotting the New Nature Journal

Why Thousands of AI Researchers Are Boycotting the New Nature Journal

Academics share machine-learning research freely. Taxpayers should not have to pay twice to read our findings.

Scientists Should Be Solving Problems, Not Struggling to Access Journals

Scientists Should Be Solving Problems, Not Struggling to Access Journals

It takes an average of 15 clicks for a researcher to find and access a journal article. This time could be much better spent

Stephen Hawking, Science's Brightest Star, Dies Aged 76

Stephen Hawking, Science's Brightest Star, Dies Aged 76

The physicist and author of A Brief History of Time has died at his home in Cambridge. His children said: We will miss him for ever.

Women Working for Wellcome Trust "Earn 21% Less Than Men" on Average

Women Working for Wellcome Trust "Earn 21% Less Than Men" on Average

The pay imbalance is linked to a disproportionate number of men in the top jobs, especially to the performance bonuses offered to senior members of the investments team, all of whom were men.

Racism Is Creeping Back into Mainstream Science

Racism Is Creeping Back into Mainstream Science

‘Scientific’ eugenics is on the rise, and grabbing a foothold in respected journals. The claim that these theories are a credible part of a general discussion should worry us all.

Teaching Gender Equality Can Help Tackle Sexual Harassment

Teaching Gender Equality Can Help Tackle Sexual Harassment

Schools must encourage young people to question gender norms and behaviours, and ensure that sex education goes beyond biology

Researchers Share $22m Breakthrough Prize as Science Gets Rock Star Treatment

Researchers Share $22m Breakthrough Prize as Science Gets Rock Star Treatment

"It’s really not a mathematician kind of thing, but I’ll probably survive." - C. Hacon

Doctor Wins 2017 John Maddox Prize for Countering HPV Vaccine Misinformation

Doctor Wins 2017 John Maddox Prize for Countering HPV Vaccine Misinformation

Riko Muranaka awarded prize for efforts to explain jabs’s safety amid scare campaigns which have seen Japanese vaccination rate fall from over 70% to 1%.