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Could the Fourth Industrial Revolution Combat Inequality?
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.
Binder 2.0: Share Your Interactive Research Environment
The Project Jupyter team shares its reboot of Binder, a tool allowing researchers to make their GitHub repositories executable by others.
To Cut Drug Prices, Academy of Sciences Tells the Government to Negotiate With Manufacturers
To Cut Drug Prices, Academy of Sciences Tells the Government to Negotiate With Manufacturers
The National Academy of Sciences called on the federal government to make drastic policy changes to bring down the cost of prescription medicines.
New Coalition Aims to Secure the Future of Open Science
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.
Five Ways to Fix Statistics
"It is not statistics that is broken, but how it is applied to science." - S. Goodman
What Do We Know About Grant Peer Review in the Health Sciences?
What Do We Know About Grant Peer Review in the Health Sciences?
Peer review decisions award >95% of academic medical research funding, so it is crucial to understand how well they work and if they could be improved.
Is a Cost-Neutral Transition to Open Access Realistic?
Current estimates for the cost of subscription articles converge around US$5,000 per article. This number is reached by dividing the estimated US$10b spent on subscriptions annually world-wide.
STEM Degrees Rise, but Disparities Remain
Though women earn significantly more bachelor’s degrees than men, they are substantially less likely to obtain a degree in science, technology, engineering or math.
Update on the Data Stewardship Project at TU Delft: 3 Months' Progress Report
Fostering collaboration and good data practices in faculties.
A Failure to Heal
When a clinical trial falters, doctors find themselves sifting through the rubble.
Where Does France Really Stand in the Tech World According to the OECD Report
Where Does France Really Stand in the Tech World According to the OECD Report
The OECD has just released a comprehensive report on Science, Technology and Industry for 2017. So how is France doing?
Springer Nature Asks JP Morgan and Morgan Stanley to Organize IPO
Springer Nature is considering a potential 4-5 billion euro stock market listing next year.
Text and Data Mining with allofPLOS
Text and data mining made easy with the allofPLOS project. Parsing tools together with the entire corpus of PLOS research articles for download.
A Growing Open Access Toolbox
Legal methods to retrieve paywalled articles for free are on the rise, but better self-archiving practices could help improve accessibility.
Make Reviews Public, Says Peer Review Expert
Retraction Watch interviews Irene Hames.
Why Are Scientists Filing Lawsuits Against Their Critics?
When fellow scientists critiqued Mark Jacobson, he took their dispute to court.
Collective Intelligence Can Change the World
Combining the minds of humans and machines to avoid confirmation bias.
Funding Knowledgebases: Towards a Sustainable Funding Model for the UniProt Use Case
Funding Knowledgebases: Towards a Sustainable Funding Model for the UniProt Use Case
Data resources can be very expensive, especially those with a high added value as the expert-curated knowledgebases.
Measuring Open Access in Finland
For the year 2016, 28.9 % of all peer-reviewed articles produced within the Finnish universities were reported as being OA.
Clean Energy Is Approaching a Tipping Point
The cost of renewables is plunging faster than forecasters anticipated just a few years ago as as technologies like gigantic wind turbines arrive on the market.
Industrial Strategy Brings Focus on Interdisciplinary Research
The UK government’s long-awaited industrial strategy has arrived. It brings with it a fund to support interdisciplinary research and funding boosts for both the research councils and quality-related research funding.
DOE to Award $99 Million for Energy Frontier Research Centers
U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry announced a proposed $99 million in Fiscal Year 2018 funding for Energy Frontier Research Centers to accelerate transformative scientific advances for the most challenging topics in materials sciences, chemical sciences, geosciences, and biosciences.