For Ph.D. candidates and postdocs, the relationship with your supervisor can make or break a career. The onus for a positive and nurturing relationship should fall largely on the senior member.
The long arm of the law has reached into an investigation of alleged scientific misconduct in Italy.
A project that aims to slash the cost of producing monographs could help make more of them available to the public for free. But will scholars participate?
Women are underrepresented relative to men as colloquium speakers, yet women neither decline talk invitations at greater rates nor question the importance of talks more than men do.
At the risk of breaking the Fourth Wall, here's a story about peer reviews that weren't - and shouldn't have been.
COVID-19 has posed an unprecedented challenge to the international scientific community. In one of the largest academic surveys ever conducted, 25,307 members of our academic community participated, representing diverse countries, roles, and areas of research.
Bill Gates and the European Commission have launched a €100 million investment fund designed to bring radical clean energy technologies more quickly to market in order to promote energy efficiency and cut greenhouse gas emissions.
Authorities' increased scrutiny of Chinese researchers' background causes concern about unfair accusations.
If the eyes are the window to your soul, the face is the frame. Facial expressions may say more about you than you realize. Even neutral expressions do.
Anti-science attitudes have historically encumbered societal progress in the U.S., often with serious ramifications. The scientific community is now bracing for upheaval as the Trump administration prepares to take office.
We present an agent-based model of paper publication and consumption that allows to study the effect of two different evaluation mechanisms, peer review and reputation, on the quality of the manuscripts accessed by a scientific community.
The science of medicine is based on male bodies, but researchers are beginning to realize how vastly the symptoms of disease differ between the sexes - and how much danger women are in.
The thesis argues that the UK governmental policy framework promotes a form of OA that intends to minimise disruption to the publishing industry. The scholar-led ecosystem of presses, in contrast, reflects a diversity of values and struggles that represent a counter-hegemonic alternative to the dominant cultures of OA and publishing more generally.
Researchers found 127 systematic reviews and clinical guidelines that cited already retracted papers.
The past year was a shock to the U.S. higher education system. The coming year may see even more jolts.
Scientists now know more about what makes Lil Bub such a unique feline.
The president's new budget would cut more than $3 billion in global health programs.
After lengthy negotiations, the EU and Canada reached agreement for Canadian researchers to join Horizon Europe research programme from next year.
The funder-driven push for freely accessible scholarly literature has divided the scientific community.
Researchers argue that it's time to invest in aggressive carbon capture.
With the research budget already overstretched, any more funding for the Missions cannot be at the expense of other parts of Horizon Europe, critics say
There are more university comparisons than ever before, but some argue there is little reliable or actionable information to be gleaned from them.
Edgenuity involves short answers graded by an algorithm, and students have already cracked it.
The climate emergency movement is heading to school. Global higher education networks tying together more than 7000 universities and colleges from across the globe declared a climate emergency and published a three-point plan to confront the escalating environmental crisis.
