Wellcome Trust collaborative awards
The Wellcome Trust launches the new Collaborative Awards, enabling teams of researchers to apply together and bring new perspectives to the work they are doing.
Thousands of Scientists Run Up Against Elsevier's Paywall
Researchers have been left without access to new papers as libraries and the major publisher fail to agree on subscription deals.
The Kardashian index: a measure of discrepant social media profile for scientists
The Kardashian index: a measure of discrepant social media profile for scientists
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.
If These Data Could Talk
Data-driven methods have come to dominate many scientific fields, but many fields exhibit distressingly low rates of reproducibility.
An Energy Breakthrough Could Store Solar Power for Decades
Researchers in Sweden have created a molecule that offers a way to trap heat from the sun.
Safety first
Safety first
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.
Turn Children on to Science Through Reading
Books have the power to trigger a lifelong urge to know more about the world and its environs.
Study of China's Ethnic Minorities Retracted As Dozens of Papers Come Under Scrutiny for Ethical Violations
Study of China's Ethnic Minorities Retracted As Dozens of Papers Come Under Scrutiny for Ethical Violations
A legal journal has retracted a 2019 article on the facial genetics of ethnic minorities in China for ethics violations. Springer Nature is investigating more than two dozen other articles for similar concerns.
A New Buzzword for Academics Needing Research Money
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
Harnessing Serendipity
Innovation is critical to sustained economic growth—and mathematics can help us understand how it works
Science Journals End Open-Access Trial with Gates Foundation
A pilot experiment has seen 26 papers published under open-access terms so far and should yield a report by the end of the year.
ETH Apologises for Postdoc Job Advert Demanding 'Nature Paper'
Swiss university has signed San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment, which says academics should not be judged on the journals they publish in
The COVID Pandemic's Lingering Impact on Clinical Trials
Medical researchers are beginning to shift their focus away from COVID-19 - but the pandemic could continue to affect studies focused on other diseases.
What Italy's Far-Right Election Victory Means for Science
Researchers fear further cuts to funding and a lack of action on climate.
Social Scientists Bring Their Faith into Research - And It Shows Up in Their Results
Social Scientists Bring Their Faith into Research - And It Shows Up in Their Results
Why do studies on whether religion is disappearing totally contradict each other? Valeria Rainero, Jörg Stolz and Ruud Luijkx discuss their recent research on how faith (or lack of it) shaped interventions in the secularisation debate and suggest how the social sciences could benefit from less adversarial claims to objectivity in research.
Bias against novelty in science
Novel breakthroughs in research can have a dramatic impact on scientific discovery but face some distinct disadvantages in getting wider recognition.
Global Coalition Pushes for Unrestricted Sharing of Scholarly Citation Data
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.
Meet the Scientist Painter Who Turns Deadly Viruses into Beautiful Works of Art
Meet the Scientist Painter Who Turns Deadly Viruses into Beautiful Works of Art
David Goodsell's scientifically precise watercolor paintings of the cells and microbes he studies grace journal covers and impress colleagues.
You Can Help to Create a New Researcher-reward System
Universities, funders and others want to expand the contributions that the scientific community values and recognizes, says Karen Stroobants.
Funding, Foreign Influence 'Hinder African Science Progress'
African researchers call for supportive policies, increased funding, and a collaborative approach to R&D to address science-policy gaps.
A surge of p-values between 0.041 and 0.049 in recent decades
Study on the abundance of positive results in the scientific literature.
Not Just Available, but also Useful
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.
Peer Reviewers - Time for Mass Rebellion?
Richard Smith spent some time reviewing two scientific papers, and the experience has made him wonder if it is time for peer reviewers to rise up in rebellion.
National Science Foundation Staff Decry Trump's 'Politically Motivated' Cuts
Workers allege illegal terminations, censorship and collapse of scientific review standards
Research funders provide OA support
Overview of some of the approaches that research funders take to open access and why.
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