While social media is a valuable tool for outreach and the sharing of ideas, there is a danger that this form of communication is gaining too high a value and that we are losing sight of key metrics of scientific value, such as citation indices.
Data-driven methods have come to dominate many scientific fields, but many fields exhibit distressingly low rates of reproducibility.
It is worrying that US government departments are unable to divulge basic data on research projects involving human subjects. Such data should be publicly available to ensure volunteers’ safety.
Books have the power to trigger a lifelong urge to know more about the world and its environs.
The Belt and Road Initiative, China's mega-plan for global infrastructure, will transform the lives and work of tens of thousands of researchers.
A mathematical model designed to forecast the success of biotechnology papers has drawn criticism from researchers.
Artificial intelligence boosts individual scientists' output, citations and career progression, but collectively narrows research diversity and reduces collaboration, concentrating work in data-rich areas and potentially limiting broader scientific exploration.
Pre-print available here: Artificial Intelligence Tools Expand Scientists' Impact but Contract Science's Focus
With usual funding sources squeezed, and Brexit round the corner, researchers are asking the public to fund their studies through crowdfunding – from bees to LSD
Innovation is critical to sustained economic growth—and mathematics can help us understand how it works
Scientific research can be a daunting career choice for women of colour, according to a recent survey which found they face a "barrage of brief, everyday racial slights" at work.
Congratulations on the successful defense of your dissertation. This is a significant accomplishment, and you should have the opportunity to savor ...
Many Western nations are severing scientific links - but it's a different story in China, India and South Africa.
Novel breakthroughs in research can have a dramatic impact on scientific discovery but face some distinct disadvantages in getting wider recognition.
A coalition of scholarly publishers, researchers, and nonprofit organizations launched the Initiative for Open Citations (I4OC), a project to promote the unrestricted open access to scholarly citation data.
A team of astronomers has discovered the most-distant body ever observed in our Solar System. It is the first known Solar System object that has been detected at a distance that is more than 100 times farther than Earth is from the Sun. It was announced Monday by the International Astronomical Union's Minor Planet Center. Carnegie's Scott S. Sheppard, the University of Hawaii's David Tholen, and Northern Arizona University's Chad Trujillo made the discovery.
An insiders' term for scientific malpractice has worked its way into pop culture. Is that a good thing?
How can we make sure that medical trials reported in the scientific literature are real? It is surprisingly hard - but not impossible.
Study on the abundance of positive results in the scientific literature.
Could the real open access please stand up? If more research was published according to true open access principles, we'd see better application of evidence for everyone's benefit.
All contracts for academic posts should be open-ended, and liable to termination: this is the opinion of the President of the Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences Antonio Loprieno.
ETH has been highly successful in the awarding of this year’s ERC Starting Grants for young researchers, with the European Research Council (ERC) approving a total of CHF 21.4 million in funding for 12 ETH project submissions.
The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) recently conducted a survey of federal scientists to ask about the state of science, and the results are in. This is our tenth version of the survey since 2004 and, to our surprise and delight, while challenges remain, the widespread consensus is that scientists in the federal government feel more positive about their workplaces now than they have at any other time we have administered the survey.
