Scientists and science communicators are engaged in a constant battle with ignorance. But that’s an approach doomed to failure, says Richard P Grant.

Dean Burnett: Some scientists argue that social media use is pointless. This scientist disagrees.

We should not have to parade ourselves on social media to please our employers or be considered enthusiastic

Americans embraced the marketisation of higher education, with profit-making colleges and debt-laden customers. The result has been corruption and failure

EU funding was a vital lifeline for our world-leading scientific research sector. That, and so much more, has now been blown away

Social media has swallowed the news – threatening the funding of public-interest reporting and ushering in an era when everyone has their own facts. But the consequences go far beyond journalism.

Jerome Ravetz has been one of the UK’s foremost philosophers of science for more than 50 years. Here, he reflects on the troubles facing contemporary science. He argues that the roots of science’s crisis have been ignored for too long. Quality control has failed to keep pace with the growth of science.

Experts preaching the ‘truth’ on healthy eating or cancer cures are not immune to the murky worlds of politics and commerce.

Women outnumber men in a raft of science courses – but when they start their careers, they find many insurmountable barriers.

Has teaching been the poor cousin of research for too long?

The present system means researchers with useful characteristics such as caution and humility may find it harder to get grants

If the work is properly monitored, there is no reason not to trust the results

One of Science in Transition’s founders describes how his experience as a young HIV/AIDS researcher convinced him that science need to change

As long men can score points for producing mountains of output, women will never get a fair shot at academic promotion

A Princeton professor’s frankness hides the grim reality about work for many young people

Turning scientific evidence into policy exposes a gulf between how scientists think and how policymakers work. Here’s what scientists need to know

Figshare has brought science publishing into the digital age so that academics can publish and share their research fully

The UK’s higher education institutions spend more than £180m on journal subscriptions every year. We need to come together and create a better system

The advantages of making scientific data available for further analysis are clear, but it could also enable the trawling of data to find significant, or preferred, results.