The Broad Institute draws NIH funding to subsidize dozens of basic research projects, many of them conducted with commercial partners. But it is the Broad’s handling of its own CRISPR business and partnerships that threaten to undermine its nonprofit mission.
The Swedish government has changed the university law to ensure all doctoral candidates are made an employee of the university with a salary.
Is it unethical for a Publisher to extract content from an academic author and commercially benefit from the sale of this without returning any of the economic gains back to the provider of that content or his/her employer?
In an exclusive video with WIRED, Wales said he wants Wikitribune to 'bring the fact-based, fact-checking mentality we know from Wikipedia to news'
Progress in the sciences can only move as fast as humans can think—outsourcing to A.I. could change that.
We can overcome the tyranny of inaccessible science hardware by building a movement for equity in science.
As machine learning surpasses human intelligence, where does that leave us? This hour, TED speakers explore ideas about the exciting — and terrifying — future of human-robot collaboration.
Contribution to the public debate on the “replication crisis” / “Replicability essentially touches on the quality of research and concerns all of science”.
In Canada, as in many other countries, there is an expectation that universities, the producers of the research, will advance innovation by starting up companies and by filing and licensing patents.
Urgent consideration needs to be given to the “careful stewardship” needed over the next ten years to ensure that the dividends from machine learning – the form of artificial intelligence that allows machines to learn from data.
All research findings at the Montreal Neurological Institute are being shared publicly to accelerate scientific discovery.
The editors of scholarly communications are under considerable pressure as recent trends in Gold Open Access characterize them as a luxury of the past.
Applicants for the Waterman will get more time to demonstrate excellence.
Our culture’s understanding of science is very, very broken, and on Saturday, it was impossible to ignore.
Nature journals have signed up to the principles of the Declaration on Research Assessment agreement.
A culture that normalizes hypercritical peers is a problem for scientists who want to reach beyond academe.
Ten years of Dutch participation in the ERC programme have been very rewarding for the small nation. The Dutch population accounts for only 3% of the total union but it receives an impressive 9% of the ERC grants. Is this a blessing or a curse?
Science panels still rely on poor proxies to judge quality and impact.
New study suggests female professors outperform men in terms of service -- to their possible professional detriment.
Technology is one of the country’s biggest growth industries, but it comes at a price.
The Environmental Protection Agency announced Friday evening its website would be “undergoing changes” to better represent the new direction the agency is taking, triggering the removal of several agency websites containing detailed climate data and scientific information.
Funding shortfalls at the luxe science magazine have left some contributors waiting months to be paid. They may need to wait a little longer.
Preprints are receiving welcome attention these days for being an integral part of research communication. We announce that starting this week researchers will be able to directly submit their manuscripts to PeerJ for peer review from the popular preprint server bioRxiv.
Explore the universities with the highest percentage of international students.
An unknown number of published studies have a hidden flaw: The “peers” who supposedly vouched for their publication are phonies.
"When someone is honestly 55 percent right, that’s very good and there’s no use wrangling. And if someone is 60 percent right, it’s wonderful, it’s great luck, and let him thank God."
