'Never Seen Jupiter Like This': James Webb Telescope Shows Incredible View of Planet
The infrared images, taken in July, capture unprecedented views of the biggest planet's storms, moon and surrounding rings
Archaeological Mystery: Ancient Elamite Script from Iran Deciphered?
For almost 120 years, the writing system known as "Linear Elamite" was considered illegible. Now a team of archaeologists claims to have partially deciphered the writing system. But other researchers are more hesitant.
Voyager 1: Earth's Farthest Spacecraft
Voyager 1 continues to explore the cosmos along with its twin probe, Voyager 2.
The Public Futures of the Humanities
The challenge of demonstrating the value of the humanities can never be fully accomplished by showing that the humanities serve other disciplines.
Americans Experience a False Social Reality by Underestimating Popular Climate Policy Support by Nearly Half - Nature Communications
Americans Experience a False Social Reality by Underestimating Popular Climate Policy Support by Nearly Half - Nature Communications
A new study finds that Americans underestimate how many are concerned about climate change as well as support for major climate policies by nearly half, with climate policy supporters significantly outnumbering non-supporters.
Citizen Science in Environmental and Ecological Sciences - Nature Reviews Methods Primers
Citizen Science in Environmental and Ecological Sciences - Nature Reviews Methods Primers
Contributory citizen science is a method in which non-professional participants contribute to data collection in whole or in part to advance scientific research. This Primer outlines the use of citizen science in the environmental and ecological sciences, discussing participant engagement, data quality assurance and bias correction.
White House Pushes Journals to Drop Paywalls on Publicly Funded Research
White House Pushes Journals to Drop Paywalls on Publicly Funded Research
The policy, hailed by researchers as “transformational,” will be fully in place by 2026 and make publicly financed research available immediately at no cost.
Pathways for Assessing Interdisciplinarity: A Systematic Review
In many sectors and in many respects, interdisciplinarity has made progress in recent decades, but less so when it comes to evaluating interdisciplinary work. Challenges remain, especially regarding what counts as ‘good’ interdisciplinarity.
The Research and Innovation Stories to Follow This Autumn
As everyone shifts back into gear after the summer break, we have put together a list of research and innovation topics coming up over the next weeks and months, to help you sift through the deluge of announcements due in September and beyond.
Balancing National Economic Policy Outcomes for Sustainable Development - Nature Communications
Balancing National Economic Policy Outcomes for Sustainable Development - Nature Communications
Selecting economic policies to achieve sustainable development is challenging due to the many sectors involved and the trade-offs implied. Artificial intelligence combined with economy-wide computer simulations can help.
The Guardian View on De-extinction: Jurassic Park May Be Becoming Reality | Editorial
The Guardian View on De-extinction: Jurassic Park May Be Becoming Reality | Editorial
Editorial: We should be keeping endangered species alive rather than bringing animals back from extinction.
Sustainable Use of Wild Species is Critical for the Well-being of People and Nature
Sustainable Use of Wild Species is Critical for the Well-being of People and Nature
Sustainable use is when biodiversity and ecosystem functioning are maintained while contributing to human wellbeing.
How Do Policymakers Decide Whom to Help?
The article analyzes what happens when governments use predictive modeling to allocate critical resources.
Neuropsychopharmacology's Approach Toward Improving Rigor and Transparency in Clinical Trials Research
Neuropsychopharmacology's Approach Toward Improving Rigor and Transparency in Clinical Trials Research
NPP is committed to consistent and thorough reporting of clinical research which is essential for rigor, reproducibility, transparency, interpretation, and generalizability of published results to the broader human population.
Why Four Scientists Spent a Year Saying No
Saying no is a skill - and practising it improved our science.
Historic Monuments Resurface As Severe Drought Shrinks Spain's Reservoirs
Prehistoric stone circle and 11th-century church uncovered as country's reservoirs hit 36% of normal capacity
Australia's Catastrophic Rabbit Invasion Sparked by a Few Dozen British Bunnies
Australia's Catastrophic Rabbit Invasion Sparked by a Few Dozen British Bunnies
Genome analysis shows that most Australian rabbits are descendants of wild rabbits shipped to near Melbourne in 1859.
Washington Gives a Big Boost to Drive for Open-access Scientific Publishing
Washington Gives a Big Boost to Drive for Open-access Scientific Publishing
The movement towards open-access scientific publishing got an historic boost this month, with the White House ordering an end to publishers putting most federally funded research behind paywalls.
The Society for Scholarly Publishing Humanities Community Network Lifts Off
A Humanities and Social Sciences Publishing Professionals Community of Interest Network is launching! An interview with facilitators Laura Ansley and Dawn Durante about the group and its focus --and how it's meeting a clear need.
Spain Votes Through Overhaul of Research Careers
Spain is about to overhaul its research career structures, after the Congress of Deputies approved the final version of a reform to the country's 2011 science, technology and innovation law last week.
Beyond the Survival of the Global Humanities
Over the past several years, scholars and critics have begun to talk about the survival of the humanities rather than its crisis. This essay traces the emergence of a rhetoric of salvation and survival in academic advocacy literature, evident in the genres, arguments, and metaphors that writers use to describe the academic humanities.
In Defence of the Objective World
Postmodern ideas have gained the status of absolute truths. Relativism, selectively appropriated into the language of both left and right politics, has metamorphosed into dogma. As oversimplification distorts communication, public trust in scientific fact has eroded. Could renewed ideas of objectivity be a way out?
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