The Evidence is Clear: if Countries Act Together, They Can Suppress Covid
As England prepares to lock down again, it should look to the example set by east Asian and African nations, says professor of global public health Devi Sridhar
As England prepares to lock down again, it should look to the example set by east Asian and African nations, says professor of global public health Devi Sridhar
Yue Xiong is a microbiologist who emigrated to the United States from China to complete his doctorate in 1989. He is the chief scientific officer of pharmaceutical company Cullgen and was a professor of biochemistry and biophysics at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. This article follows Yue Xiong’s quest for education and is based on an interview from the Science History Institute’s oral history archive conducted in 2000 by historian William Van Benschoten.
Switzerland utilizes the swissnex and embassy science sections to support science, technology, and innovation networks for its scientific and industrial competitiveness.
The p-value was never intended to be a substitute for scientific reasoning.
What it means for researchers.
Autoformatting in Microsoft Excel has caused many a headache—but now, a new study shows that one in five genetics papers in top scientific journals contains errors from the program.
Authors with a published eLife paper can now enrich their work with embedded code blocks and computed outputs to make their results more transparent, interactive and reproducible.
Two scientists allowed Nature to chronicle their lives for three years. Their story speaks to the epic professional and personal struggles involved in establishing a career in research.
Labs at Yale are researching mosquito sterilization and the abilities of rubber-decomposing fungus, all without grants. As grants from federal organizations like the National Institutes of Health become increasingly difficult to secure, researchers at Yale and across the nation are turning to a new source of support.
At ATLAS, data sharing and an open, innovative approach to information collaboration has become a fundamental part of this important scientific community.
Researchers refuse to sit on evaluation panels after government bans international participation.
Blog post encourages using more specific terms to decrease ambiguity in discussions around open science.
People are more likely to land high-paying jobs through friends of friends than through their close friends or family, study finds.
Fury is the word the minister of science and technology used on the weekend to describe his feelings about the misappropriation of scientific research funds.
In a lawsuit filed by Elsevier, Sci-Hub.org is facing millions of dollars in damages. However, the site has no intentions of backing down and will continue its fight to keep access to scientific knowledge free and open.
Although the Journal Impact Factor (JIF) is widely acknowledged to be a poor indicator of the quality of individual papers, it is used routinely to evaluate research and researchers. Here, we present a simple method for generating the citation distributions that underlie JIFs.
As per a new open access policy, all academic research from Dutch scientists should be made available under gold open access by 2024.
This week, we received a press release that caught our attention: A company is releasing software it claims will write manuscripts using researchers’ data.
Academic hiring and promotion committees and funding bodies often use publication lists as a shortcut to assessing the quality of applications. In order to avoid bias towards prestigious titles, plain language statements should become a standard feature of academic assessment.
An oily, 100-nanometer-wide bubble of genes has killed more than two million people and reshaped the world. Scientists don't quite know what to make of it.
Pilot award strategy designed to enhance funding stability to researchers.
If we believe data should be valued like other research outputs, we must take action to achieve this. Supporting the open data movement means providing proper support for data citations.
A new COVID-19 vaccine, developed by researchers from the Texas Children's Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine, is being offered patent-free to vaccine manufacturers across the world.
New scientists have grown up commenting on their friends pictures, their silly comments on Facebook and their favorite YouTube videos. Will this practice carry over into their scientific publishing?
I didn’t really understand how unjust the academic system was for career advancement for women until I had children
Continuing our celebration of Peer Review Week 2019, today Alice Meadows interviews Tracey Brown, OBE, Director of Sense about Science, which has been involved in Peer Review Week from the start.