As a long-term champion of open-access research data on pandemic viruses and a member of the Italian Parliament, I urge Brazil to hasten the reform of its current biosecurity legislation. This would enable sharing of vital Zika virus samples and information, as recently called for by the World Health Organization…
Using the Finnish Research Output as an Example
A scientific study of the importance of diagrams to science
Winning a grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is hard, especially if it's your first one. New data from a pilot project called the Early Career Reviewer (ECR) Program suggest that sitting in judgment of other grant applicants can help young scientists improve their odds when they apply for their own grants.
Germany and the UK well represented on Reuters’ inaugural Europe innovation ranking
The last few weeks have been a momentum time in the sciences: not because of a breakthrough in gene therapy or quantum computing, but because world leaders have twice called for scientific papers to be made freely available to all.
Pressure to publish short articles removes details, leaves readers confused.
Gender and race bias aren't the only ways humans subconsciously skew which science projects get funded and published. Various types of implicit bias can undermine important research.
A homeopathy journal was recently booted from the list of respectable scientific titles — but why was it among the ranks in the first place?
The working group responsible for creating new guidelines for open access to research results has today delivered their report to the Norwegian Ministry of Education and Research.
Staff at Canadian university given little guidance on how to mitigate future problems.
Sci-Hub has gained fame and notoriety for enabling free access to over 45 million paywalled articles and book chapters, purportedly collected through use of institutional log-in credentials.
A first small-scale case study suggests that the new incarnation of Microsoft Academic presents us with an excellent alternative for citation analysis.
Singapore leads the way in Times Higher Education's 2016 ranking of the premier universities in Asia.
John Ioannidis argues that problem base, context placement, information gain, pragmatism, patient centeredness, value for money, feasibility, and transparency define useful clinical research. He suggests most clinical research is not useful and reform is overdue.
The technique's first test in people could begin as early as the end of the year.
Dutch push to tackle fraud and ‘reproducibility crisis’ follows high-profile misconduct cases in the country
Giving female scholars one-off sums to ‘compensate’ for the pay gap rewards biology rather than merit, argues Joanna Williams
The Sex Life of the Screwworm Fly, or how Eradicating screwworm has saved U.S. ranchers Billions of $ since screwworms were eradicated from US in 1966.
Pooling clinical details helps doctors to diagnose rare diseases — but more sharing is needed.
“We’ll restore science to its rightful place." President Obama’s Inaugural Address, 2009
