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Adult learning is at a 20-year low because mature students can't study flexibly. This must change
From Siri to autonomous vehicles, the magic of tech innovations are wrought by human ingenuity -- and setting boundaries around these technologies is a social enterprise, with inherently cultural implications.
The 2020 election is off to a complicated start. Maybe we can draw some comparative political lessons from the animal kingdom.
Last year, everyone in U.S. academic publishing had strong opinions about a mythical beast that all had heard about but none had actually seen: a rumored Executive Order from the White House Office of Science and Technology that would mandate immediate public availability of research results by federally-funded authors.
Physicists who were set to attend the American Physical Society's Denver conference are using virtual platforms to share their talks.
A report from joint WHO-China mission takes a detailed look at the results of response in the country hit hardest.
The coronavirus epidemic will be one of the most urgent, complex, and quickly moving stories of the year. For anyone reporting on this evolving public health crisis, here are some tips to keep in mind.
The National Association of Science Writers calls on the Trump Administration to allow government experts to speak freely about the outbreak of the coronavirus disease COVID-19.
Three searchable databases provide information on global opportunities for graduate students, postdocs and junior faculty members.
Last-minute move causes chaos for thousands of researchers
This article explores the current literature on ‘research impact’ in the social sciences and humanities (SSH).
New policy tackles perverse incentives that drive 'publish or perish' culture and might be encouraging questionable research practices.
The Roadmap for Open Science is a part of Canada's 2018-2020 National Action Plan on Open Government. It outlines next steps that should be taken to make federal science open to all, while respecting privacy, security, ethical considerations and appropriate intellectual property protection.
Self-governance of science was supposed to mean freedom of inquiry, but it also ended up serving the business model of scientific publishers while undermining the goals of science policy.
New study says student evaluations of teaching are still deeply flawed measures of teaching effectiveness, even when we assume they are unbiased and reliable.
The UK will endeavour to continue in an EU science programme after Brexit.
The White House's attempt to impose a more disciplined approach to communications about the virus was undermined by President Trump, who complained the news media was overstating the threat.
Online sleuths have discovered what they suspect is a paper mill that has produced more than 400 scientific papers with potentially fabricated images. Some journals are now investigating the papers.
The long read: For decades it has been the dominant metaphor in neuroscience. But could this idea have been leading us astray all along?
The Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) announced on Wednesday that it is allocating several million Swiss francs to research on coronaviruses.
More funders and publishers must support such work and emphasize its value to the research community.
Preprint servers and journals are working overtime to keep up with a "firehose" of data.
Open science should be boosted in 2020 as the number of journals with research data policies increases as a result of collective action by publishers, who are being encouraged to adopt a new common framework for journal data policies.
For the first time in its 174-year history, the Smithonian Institution has launched a new open access platform high-resolution images from across its collections for patrons to peruse and download free of charge.
Journals, funders and scholars must work together to create an infrastructure to study peer review.
In the context of pressing planetary and socio-economic challenges, sustainable and innovative solutions must be supported by an efficient, transparent and vibrant scientific effort - not only stemming from the scientific community, but from the whole society. Go directly to the questionnaire.
