An international initiative to establish a new body to protect the world's oceans is taking shape. The goal is to build a scientific consensus and shape policies to protect, conserve and restore them.
Researchers are learning how to convert devices into global laboratories.
European and national research funders are expected to commit all researchers to granting open access to their publications as of 2020. The SNSF supports this Plan S. However, it is not in a position to add its signature to the plan at present.
A growing chorus of researchers wants to study gun violence in the U.S. as a public health issue, similar to the way they have tracked automobile or workplace safety for decades.
Just weeks after resolving shortages in swabs, researchers are struggling to find the chemicals and plastic pieces they need to carry out coronavirus tests in the lab - leading to long waiting times.
The largest-ever independent gathering of interest groups, thought-leaders, science advisors to governments and global institutions, researchers, academics, communicators and diplomats is taking place in Montreal and online.
From COVID to space exploration, graphics helped tell some the year’s most important stories
Evaluation of academic research plays a significant role in government efforts to steer public universities. The scope of such evaluation is now being extended to include the ‘relevance’ or ‘impact’ of academic research outside the academy. We address how evaluation of non-academic research impact can promote more such impact without undermining academic freedom and research excellence.
Despite some progress, researchers are still reluctant to switch journals because of fears it could hinder their careers.
What’s the scientific value of the Stanford Prison Experiment? Zimbardo responds to the new allegations against his work.
In a secret experiment, researchers replaced the dysfunctional brain cells of a Parkinson's patient with the progeny of an extraordinary type of stem cell.
The world's first peer-reviewed, PubMed-indexed scientific video journal.
The Swiss National Science Foundation is testing a new CV format for researchers applying for project funding in biology and medicine (submission deadline 01 April 2020).
There’s no doubt political parties listen to think tanks. Using them to present academic work could help researchers penetrate the Westminster bubble.
Senator Elizabeth Warren called on researchers to make public data they collect while testing drugs and medical devices on patients. Others disagree.
The Project Jupyter team shares its reboot of Binder, a tool allowing researchers to make their GitHub repositories executable by others.
The SSH Open Marketplace is discovery portal designed to offer social sciences and humanities researchers the tools, software, datasets, training materials, and workflows they need to manage their data.
A team of researchers from the University of Geneva (UNIGE) and the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Testing and Research (Empa) has studied various scenarios for reducing the Swiss carbon footprint tied to electricity consumption. The authors recommend the implementation of a domestic generation mix of wind and photovoltaic energy.
PLOS open-data mandate has prompted scientists to share more data online, but not everyone is complying with the regulations.
Last week's Transforming Research conference in Baltimore, MD, gathered a range of speakers across the academic and professional spectrum.
The government's "directions will be entirely determined by the interests of Indian academia and of India", according to K. VijayRaghavan, the principal scientific adviser to the Government of India.
Academic mobility has long been trumpeted as the secret to forming international research networks, but support has led to one-way flows. Now, the EU is considering how to balance out the movement of researchers around the bloc.
Amid increasing competition and conflict with countries such as China, calls to restrict international scientific cooperation overlook benefits to the United States.
