Researchers raised alarms over reports of a clampdown on grants and communications by the EPA and other agencies. Some of those orders apparently are now being walked back, but long-term questions remain.
Programming tools can speed up and strengthen analyses, but mastering the skills takes time and can be daunting.
As expectations of early career researchers rise ever higher, some established colleagues are failing to pull their weight.
IITs are even better than MIT at churning out founders of unicorns.
Pilot award strategy designed to enhance funding stability to researchers.
How open licenses can simplify international research when multiple research projects are involved and when projects have ended.
It’s vital to improve public trust in science and expertise. But science is increasingly complex, and getting harder to explain.
How Science is doing on the front of gender imbalance in authorship.
Discussing the role of investigators in the authorship of industry-sponsored publications.
The Royal Society welcomes Government’s Industrial Strategy.
Life was long thought to obey its own set of rules. But as simple systems show signs of lifelike behavior, scientists are arguing about whether this apparent.
Michael Eisen hopes a victory in 2018 will bring a new scientific voice to the US legislature.
In a time when facts don’t matter, and science is being muzzled, American democracy is the real victim
When a new grad student indicates an interest in an academic career, I ask, “So you want to be a Hollywood producer?”
Letter from the Dutch State Secretary for Education, Culture and Science informing the House of Representatives of the progress made in the field of open science.
The different options to achieve open access, whether by journals changing their revenue structures from subscription to publishing charges, or authors utilizing a number of options for posting open access versions of article manuscripts in repositories.
A European professor and journal editor argues that the use of AI in peer review could hamper scientific advancement.
NumFOCUS is a nonprofit that supports and promotes world-class, innovative, open source scientific software.
Drone technology is quickly evolving from a geeky accessory to multi-billion dollar industry.
Order barring citizens of seven countries from entering the United States has left many confused and afraid.
John Holdren worries that immigration restrictions could harm researchers' ability to collaborate across borders.
Statistical information about the participation of these three groups in science and engineering education and employment.
The institutions with the strongest global connections have a ‘cultural disposition’ to think beyond borders. The Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology lead at the top.
The problem of fake data may go far deeper than scientists admit. Now a team of researchers has a controversial plan to root out the perpetrators
