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The research enterprise sometimes keeps scientists from pursuing the best ideas: intense competition forces researchers to prioritize publishing papers over tackling important questions. A special issue explores the problems facing early and mid-career scientists, and how to solve them.
Scholars and their significant others share the good, the bad and the ugly.
A surprising number of physicists and astronomers and STEM professionals compete in long, hard, miserable athletic endeavors like ultramarathons. Why?
Windows, desks and employees are being wired up in a quest to create healthy, evidence-based environments.
Academics are getting out of touch with the rest of society. This helps explains the sorry state of our public discourse on science.
Science is a big thing, but changing it relies on simple decisions made by individual researchers.
How is the rise in team science and the emergence of the research group as the fundamental unit of organization of science affecting scientists’ opportunities to collaborate?
These are dark times for science so we asked hundreds of researchers how to fix it.
In talking with some folks about mental health issues in academia, one thing that comes up is the idea that maybe people are better scientists because of those issues.
Late nights, typos, self-doubt and despair. Francis Collins, Sara Seager and Uta Frith dust off their theses, and reflect on what the PhD was like for them.
Solitude often holds negative connotations. Yet, solitude in science it is not necessarily a bad thing.
Cutting down on long-distance air travel is the best way to reduce the emission of greenhouse gases by the scientific community.
The authors of a new book challenge what they call the “frantic pace” of contemporary university life.
Professor Matthew Wallenstein wants to bring what he has learned as an entrepreneur to his colleagues in academia.
China has released its first national standards governing the treatment of laboratory animals, and scientists hope the guidelines will improve both conditions for animals and China’s prospects for international research collaborations.
The near-romantic spirit of adventure and exploration that inspired young scientists of my own and earlier generations has become tarnished.
The make-up of a lab is crucial to success in publishing its research — and now, scientists are exploring how to compose the best research group possible.
