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Skepticism Surrounds Renowned Mathematician

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Skepticism Surrounds Renowned Mathematician

The Riemann hypothesis, a formula related to the distribution of prime numbers, has remained unsolved for more than a century.

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Science-Graphic Art Partnerships to Increase Research Impact

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Science-Graphic Art Partnerships to Increase Research Impact

Graphics are becoming increasingly important for scientists to effectively communicate their findings to broad audiences, but most researchers lack expertise in visual media.

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Australian Funder Backflips on Controversial Preprint Ban

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Australian Funder Backflips on Controversial Preprint Ban

Scientists welcome the move, but say the funder should have gone further by also reconsidering grant applications previously ruled ineligible.

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The Next Generation of Coronavirus Vaccines: a Graphical Guide

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The Next Generation of Coronavirus Vaccines: a Graphical Guide

New technologies might provide more potent or broader immunity - but will have to fight for market share.

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Risky Science and Public Consent

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Risky Science and Public Consent

Should citizens decide on risky science? To explore this question of public consent and risky science, two experts with differing opinions share their points of view, in an effort to find some common ground.

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Early Verdicts on Claude Science: Faster Workflows, But Gaps Remain

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Early Verdicts on Claude Science: Faster Workflows, But Gaps Remain

AI giant Anthropic recently announced its scientific workbench, Claude Science. While scientists praised many of its features, they noted that its reasoning needs work.

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Reproducibility

Scientists can draw very different meanings from the same data, study shows

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Scientists can draw very different meanings from the same data, study shows

Giving the same information to multiple scientific teams can lead to very different conclusions, a report published today in Nature shows.

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Experts Call for ‘People Before Projects’ Revamp

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Experts Call for ‘People Before Projects’ Revamp

New report from influential group recommends ditching large-scale projects in favour of funding outstanding individual researchers, getting rid of submission deadlines and awarding smaller grants to make the pie go further.

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Integrity

Overselling Results is a Problem in Science

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Overselling Results is a Problem in Science

Climate skeptics, conspiracy theorists, and the anti-immunization movement are on the rise. At the same time, fraudulent research and issues with the replicability of scientific results prompt the question if science is still a reliable source for political decision-making.

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A Conversation with the Only Scientist in Congress

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A Conversation with the Only Scientist in Congress

Representative Bill Foster weighs in on the most important science issues facing the country.

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'I Can't Remember Feeling As Excited About the Future': Redesigning Space Travel for Women

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'I Can't Remember Feeling As Excited About the Future': Redesigning Space Travel for Women

The drive for more women and greater diversity in the space sector will lead to new ideas and innovations, from spacesuits to toilets and beyond.

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Open Science Conference 2022

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Open Science Conference 2022

Science Europe is organising a conference on Open Science. Institutional leaders, researchers at all stages of their careers, and experts from the field are invited to this event to discuss whether Open Science is ready to become the norm in research, and how to ensure an equitable transition.

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In a first, botanists vote to remove offensive plant names from hundreds of species

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In a first, botanists vote to remove offensive plant names from hundreds of species

An international body has voted to make the change and to further consider the ethics of scientific names

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Equality

Wondering if I'm the next Tim Hunt

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Wondering if I'm the next Tim Hunt

Would we worry a little more about academic freedom—about his right to hold an unpopular view and still be a member of the academic community?

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Humans Run Experiments, a Robot Writes the Paper

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Humans Run Experiments, a Robot Writes the Paper

The future of automated scientific writing is upon us—and that's a good thing.

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COVID-19

How the Virus Got Out

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How the Virus Got Out

Scientists analyzed the movements of hundreds of millions of people to show why the most extensive travel restrictions to stop an outbreak in human history haven't been enough.

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Who to Vaccinate First? A Peek at Decision-Making in a Pandemic

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Who to Vaccinate First? A Peek at Decision-Making in a Pandemic

Faced with the challenge of advising the World Health Organization on who should be the first to receive COVID-19 vaccines, an advisory group used an approach it hadn't tried before.

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New US Plan for 'AI in Science' Could Change How Research is Done, for Better or Worse

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New US Plan for 'AI in Science' Could Change How Research is Done, for Better or Worse

A new Trump administration plan to expand the use of artificial intelligence in US science could boost research productivity. But, it also highlights a need for more global cooperation in AI development.

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The benefits of negative science

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The benefits of negative science

A new JAMA study found the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is silent on matters of scientific misconduct and fraud.

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Prestigious Science Journals Struggle to Reach Even Average Reliability

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Prestigious Science Journals Struggle to Reach Even Average Reliability

Data from several lines of evidence suggest that the methodological quality of scientific experiments does not increase with increasing rank of the journal.

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Dear Scholars, Delete Your Account At Academia.Edu

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Dear Scholars, Delete Your Account At Academia.Edu

As privatized platforms like Academia.edu look to monetize scholarly writing even further, researchers, scientists and academics across the globe must now consider alternatives to proprietary companies that aim to profit from our writing and offer little transparency as to how our work will be used in the future.

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Open Access

Conflicting Academic Attitudes to Copyright Are Slowing the Move to Open Access

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Conflicting Academic Attitudes to Copyright Are Slowing the Move to Open Access

The open access movement has prompted a shift towards retention of rights and the use of creative commons licenses to control how works are used by publishers. However, in many cases, researchers continue to agree to standard assignment terms offered by publishers without fully investigating or understanding them.

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Political Battles Force a Go-slow in EU Budget Negotiations

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Political Battles Force a Go-slow in EU Budget Negotiations

Commission concedes it will need more time to resolve long-term budget negotiations – but it remains committed to its plan boosting R&D subsidies

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Huge Study Documents Gender Gap in Chemistry Publishing

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Huge Study Documents Gender Gap in Chemistry Publishing

Analysis finds female-led papers are more likely to be rejected, and less likely to be cited, than those with male corresponding authors.

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Data Visualisation

Our Bauhaus Coronavirus Cover

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Data Visualisation

Our Bauhaus Coronavirus Cover

The recent nature issue publishes findings from leading researchers on an urgent quest for a vaccine against SARS-Cov-2. Here ist how the cover image was created, drawing on aspects of Bauhaus artist Paul Klee’s famous notebooks to reimagine the quest for a vaccine against SARS-CoV-2.

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Collaboration
Researcher

Researcher Roles in Collaborative Governance Interventions

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Researcher Roles in Collaborative Governance Interventions

While societies are facing complex problems involving multiple stakeholders and interdependencies, interest in collaborative governance as a potential solution is rising.

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Universities

Trump's Attack on US Universities is an Attack on All Universities

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Trump's Attack on US Universities is an Attack on All Universities

This year marks the 80th anniversary of one of the most influential science policy papers ever published: "Science: the Endless Frontier," a report by presidential advisor Vannevar Bush that served as the blueprint for the post-WWII rise of the US as the world's leader in scientific research, innovation and education. Bush famously wrote: 
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Don't hide the decline

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Don't hide the decline

US scientists should not be placated by the ‘flat budget’ myth. Funds are decreasing, and the situation will get worse.

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Open Data
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Open Data And The Fight Against Disease

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Open Data
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Open Data And The Fight Against Disease

Open data is increasingly common, but when it comes to tackling global disease, more needs to be done.

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Nobelist: Toughest, Not Most Talented, Stay in Academia

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Nobelist: Toughest, Not Most Talented, Stay in Academia

Brian Schmidt says academia is losing brightest researchers because they cannot endure 'intolerable' precarity throughout their thirties

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