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Technology could be used to wipe out malaria carrying mosquitos or other pests but UN experts say fears over possible military uses and unintended consequences strengthen case for a ban.
Sue Finley began working at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory three days before the US space program launched its first satellite.
We all lose because of the biases of Wall Street and Silicon Valley.
Various women who have inspired us for their trailblazing efforts in science.
Carbon capture has a bad reputation. But after a year of reporting, I’ve come to a conclusion: It's both vital and viable.
"It’s really not a mathematician kind of thing, but I’ll probably survive." - C. Hacon
The secret to unlocking innovation isn’t tax cuts - it’s equality.
Papers authored by academic and corporate partners are more widely discussed online.
Scientists who collaborate locally publish more papers and are more highly cited than those who engage in long-distance relationships.
Funders should not support policy-relevant work that treats policy impact as an afterthought.
Income and gender make a big difference in who winds up inventing.
Lawsuits have an intimidating effect on an already difficult enterprise.
“How’s my paper doing?” It’s such a simple question, and in today’s hyperconnected world it’s relatively easy to work out who’s reading and talking about your scientific publications. But are there conversations you might be overlooking?
The Vera and Donald Blinken Open Society Archives awards a fellowship each year either to an unconventional technology expert early in his/her career, or a scholar or activist working at the intersection of humanities, social sciences and technology studies or technological solutions.
Understanding that vaccines are critical to public health and human-driven carbon emissions are un-terraforming the planet cannot be the purview of the one percent.
The OECD's 2017 Science, Technology and Industry Scoreboard brings fresh evidence on where women stand in the pursuit of better representation in the world of science and technology.
Texas is at risk of a deadly measles outbreak, and yet few have been willing to cast blame on the state’s burgeoning—and notoriously combative—anti-vaccine movement.
A researcher specializing in post-traumatic stress disorder is facing jail time for allegedly embezzling tens of thousands of dollars of federal grant money.
NIH recommendations to identify credible journals.
According to its developers, Statcheck gets it right in more than 95% of cases. Some outsiders still aren’t convinced.
The traditional journal publishing system, the recent open access models of journal publishing as an evolving phenomenon, the nature and extent of open access as a disruptive innovation, and the implications for key stakeholders.
New technologies like artificial intelligence, self-driving vehicles and the internet of things could be used to reduce the widening economic gulf that is emerging in modern societies.
The Project Jupyter team shares its reboot of Binder, a tool allowing researchers to make their GitHub repositories executable by others.
The National Academy of Sciences called on the federal government to make drastic policy changes to bring down the cost of prescription medicines.
In an effort to strengthen and secure the network of non-commercial services that underpin the burgeoning field of Open Science, a newly-formed coalition of international organisations is spearheading an unconventional appeal.
Academic publishers are "still acting as if the internet doesn’t exist,” says Michael Eisen, co-founder of the Public Library of Science.
