A young researcher who shot to fame in scientific circles when she published an apparently radical and simple way to create stem cells has been found guilty of misconduct by a committee charged with investigating her work
A Hong Kong developmental biologist says he has succeeded in reproducing a method of reprogramming cells to an embryonic like state by applying mechanical stress.
In fight over journal pricing, University of Konstanz ends license negotiations with publisher
There has been an upsurge in philanthropy for scientific research by America's billionaires. Still, in size and scope, philanthropy pales in comparison to public financing for science.
Scientists go to great lengths to ensure that data are collected and analysed properly, so why do they apply different standards to data about the number of times research papers have been cited and viewed?
Open Access, Open Science, Science 2.0 - die Titel, unter denen vom Internet eine Beschleunigung des Erkenntnisgewinns erwartet wird, sind vielfältig. Doch wem nützen die entsprechenden Techniken?
An exploratory survey among Harvard bioscientists
NIH's initiative to support and implement fairer competition for minority students is a welcome step to redress the exploitation of African Americans by science.
Die interdisziplinäre Studie zeigt auf, welche Folgen damit verbunden sind, z.B. im Hinblick auf die Persönlichkeitsrechte, den Datenschutz oder den Umgang von Betroffenen mit Krankheitsrisiken.
Is Open Science already here? Not exactly. Open Science is more than a subset of projects that make data available or sharing of software tools, often because they received specific funding to do so.
"I co-founded the PLOS in 2002 because I believed deeply that the open access publishing model PLOS espoused and has come to dominate was good for science, scientists and the public."
SCIgen is a program that generates random Computer Science research papers, including graphs, figures, and citations.
Schweizer Firmen haben bereits Millionen über die Fördertöpfe der EU abholen können.
82% of NIH papers are publicly accessible a year after they are published.
NASA Scientific relations between Russia and the West have reached their lowest ebb since the cold war, after Russia annexed Ukraine's Crimean peninsula.
Anne Glover, Chief Scientific Adviser to the European Commission, discusses evidence-based policy and nurturing and supporting a European scientific culture.
There is no doubt that big data is a valuable tool that has already had a critical impact in certain areas. But because of its popularity, we need to be levelheaded about what big data can and can’t do.
The sudden appearance of data scientists on the business scene reflects the fact that companies are now wrestling with information that comes in varieties and volumes never encountered before.
Felipe Fernández-Armesto bristles at the stifling effect of peer review.
The age at which Nobel prize winners receive their prizes has increased dramatically, especially in physics.
New data show the short-term economic activity generated by science funding, by Julia Lane.
Publicity spurs science study retractions 7 times more often.
Academic research can be hugely stressful. This study shows that the demands of applying for a research grant also carry an emotional toll.
The proportion of non-tenure-track and non-tenured faculty posts continues to rise across all US institutions. Overall proportion of assistant professors in non-tenure-track posts was 23.4% for 2013–14, compared with 20.8% in 2010–11.
The report highlights universities' increasingly significant impact on the economy in terms of output, contribution to GDP, job creation, and overseas investment.
EU report urging a copyright law reform to help researchers text-mine research papers.
Poor reproducibility is only one of many factors that together make biomedical research highly inefficient.
By the Autralian National University research skills training.
Countries from Finland to Portugal are shaping their higher education policies based on outside rankings, eager for the validation and attention the annual lists bestow, even while they are criticized as flawed or misleading.
Researchers and students are struggling with obstructive rules on immigration to the EU that urgently need updating: scientists from countries outside the EU are not being made welcome and often face problems in moving freely between member states.
