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Knowledge generated in partnership with the public and policymakers is more likely to be useful to society and should be encouraged.
A digital scholarship librarian and a historian assembled a team of professors, graduate students, researchers, and fellows to create "Torn Apart / Separados", an interactive web site that visualizes the vast apparatus of immigration enforcement in the US, and broadly maps the shelters where children can be housed.
Scientists often herald the role of chance in research. A project in Britain aims to test the popular idea with evidence.
If you want to explore things you haven’t explored, having people who look just like you and think just like you is not the best way. We must see the forest, thinks Scott Page collegiate professor of complex systems, and author of the book book "The Diversity Bonus".
Algorithms are shaping our lives. Where's academia when it comes to helping us make sense of this?
Researchers should recognize communities that feel over-researched and under-rewarded.
Nature seems to have a regular penchant for mocking scientists’ hopes and expectations.
Increased provision of information in accessible repositories appears to be a cost-effective way to advance science. Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial.
Nowhere near enough new drugs are currently in development says a WHO report, which calls for urgent investment and responsible use of existing antibiotics.
Thanks to a $99,000 research grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
A set of criteria for the identification of emerging topics is proposed according to the adjusted definition and attributes of emergence.
Crispr inventor Jennifer Doudna talks about discovering the gene-editing tool, the split with her collaborator and the complex ethics of genetic manipulation.
Innovation is critical to sustained economic growth—and mathematics can help us understand how it works
Science is said to be suffering a reproducibility crisis caused by many biases. How common are these problems, across the wide diversity of research fields? We probed for multiple bias-related patterns in a large random sample of meta-analyses taken from all disciplines.
They say they don't have the time or incentives to do research — and that’s dangerous for translational medicine.
The work force is aging in the United States, and scientists are leading the way. From 1993 to 2008, the share of scientists aged 55 and older increased by nearly 90 percent.
First new outstation in 18 years strengthens city's biomedical profile
Program brings artificial general intelligence a step closer by using previous knowledge to solve fresh problems
WHO today published its first ever list of antibiotic-resistant "priority pathogens"—a catalogue of 12 families of bacteria that pose the greatest threat to human health.
