A review showing that some metrics in widespread use cannot be used as reliable indicators research quality.
How can something exclusive, secretive, and irreproducible be considered to be objective? How can something exclusive, secretive, and irreproducible be considered as a ‘gold standard’ of any sort?
In our complex and interconnected world, we need leaders of imagination, understanding, and emotional intelligence. To cultivate such leaders, we must value and invest in the humanities, says Peter Salovey, President of Yale University.
As a young professor 25 years ago, Lisa J. Graumlich awoke to a career success: Her work studying tree-ring patterns to reconstruct 1,000 years of global climate history had just become headline news...
Without input from other disciplines, new technologies will fail to improve lives, report warns
The vision for what is hoped to be the largest science advocacy event in history.
Canada’s experience with virtual panels shows that the status quo should be challenged, not accepted unthinkingly.
Because sharing underlying data is essential for accelerating scientific advances and maximizing the value of research.
It’s obvious that computers have become indispensable problem-solving partners. But it’s suddenly not enough to be a fluent user of software interfaces. Understanding what lies behind the computer’s seeming magic now seems crucial.
Open Science DB is a grassroots movement led by graduate students in science who aspire to make scientific research more accessible to the public.
Berners-Lee says Web access is a human right—and the technology he created needs a rethink.
Science isn’t just about explosions. But can children as young as 3 understand what it’s really about?
MIT Professor Tim Berners-Lee has won the most prestigious honor in computer science, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) A.M. Turing Award. Often referred to as “the Nobel Prize of computing,” the award comes with a $1 million prize provided by Google.
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Tim Berners-Lee just received the prestigious Turing Award that comes with a million dollars. Now he plots a radical overhaul of his creation.
Q&A with the author of a new book on reproducibility.
The Hungary-born philanthropist's university says planned new laws will make it impossible to operate.
New tool joins a growing collection of software for accessing fee-for-view scientific literature.
Cheap, stripped-down microcontrollers are allowing users to pack huge amounts of computing power into tiny spaces.
A new policy paper by LERU on why and how societal impact has always been, is and will remain, a core task of universities.
Newer universities excel when it comes to internationalisation, Times Higher Education’s 2017 ranking of the world’s top young universities shows
