NIH's New Sexual-harassment Rules Are Still Too Weak, Say Critics
The agency has outlined actions it may take to deal with bullies and harassers, but it still relies on universities to report bad behaviour.
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The agency has outlined actions it may take to deal with bullies and harassers, but it still relies on universities to report bad behaviour.
Three studies showing large DNA deletions and reshuffling heighten safety concerns about heritable genome editing.
Which would you trust more, a research article posted as a preprint, or one that has been published after peer review? The reality is that all science communicated via either mechanism should be read with a discerning and critical eye.
Along with healthcare providers around the world, the Wellcome Trust PhD fellow Karin Purshouse is seeing the need for fast-tracked guidance on the virus and patient treatment.
It's 38C in Siberia. The science may be complicated - but the need for action now couldn't be clearer, says climate scientist Tamsin Edwards.
In the face of this crisis, we need research to be shared faster.
Achieving the global benefits of artificial intelligence (AI) will require international cooperation on many areas of governance and ethical standards, while allowing for diverse cultural perspectives and priorities.
I have tried to live in a world that does not see color but have only succeeded in living in a world that does not see me, says Kafui Dzirasa.
The rapid sharing of pandemic research shows there is a better way to filter good science from bad.
The prestige ranking of scholarly journals is costly to science and to society.
NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine announced Wednesday the agency's headquarters building in Washington, D.C., will be named after Mary W. Jackson, the first African American female engineer at NASA.
In this interview Robert Harington asks Daniel Hook (CEO of Digital Science and co-author of the new Digital Science report. How COVID-19 is Changing Research Culture) about his views on fundamental shifts in research culture as a result of the COVID-19 global pandemic.
Following an intense period of consultation and co-design, we are excited to unveil our first wave of projects, which will run for the remainder of RoRI's pilot phase (until autumn 2021). We are also delighted to announce our partners, who will be collaborating in the design and delivery of these projects.
One interesting and unintended consequence of the current pandemic has been an increase in people’s engagement with citizen science.
What kinds of space are we willing to live and work in now?
In late March of this year, Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick suggested in an interview that many people over 70-himself included-would be willing to risk contracting coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) so as not to, in his words, "sacrifice the country." At the time, his comments were widely re
CoVis provides a curated knowledge map of seminal works on COVID-19 research. The knowledge map is constantly evolving thanks to the collective editing of subject-matter experts.
European Union officials are racing to agree on who can visit the bloc as of July 1 based on how countries of origin are faring with new coronavirus cases. Americans, so far, are excluded, according to draft lists seen by The New York Times.
This publication shows how a single paper affects the impact factor (IF) of a journal by analyzing data from 3,088,511 papers published in 11639 journals in the 2017 Journal Citation Reports of Clarivate Analytics.