Scientists are required to communicate science and research not only to other experts in the field, but also to scientists and experts from other fields, as well as to the public and policymakers. One fundamental suggestion when communicating with non-experts is to avoid professional jargon.
Greater collaboration leading to the growing informal use and exchange of free material between researchers.
Researchers planted a working hacker "exploit" in a physical strand of DNA.
Malware can be encoded into a gene and used to take over a computer program.
China's rewards are richest, but many nations now offer incentives for publishing in top journals.
Understanding the research dynamics preceding the emergence of new areas.
Support for the Google ‘manifesto’ on gender difference recalls the rationale of eugenics.
The pipeline of women pursuing mathematics and physics is still dreadfully leaky.
A paper on conformal algebra has recently caused a stir on social media. Not because of the science, but rather the heartfelt plea in the acknowledgements.
Aarhus University has signed up companies to fund fundamental research in what it calls a ‘patent-free playground’.
Community-driven network will allow scientists to share ideas and post pre-peer review papers.
Don't be taken in by the memo’s faux-reasonable tone.
These are some issues that males simply do not have to face. The "anxiety gap" exists for a reason, and it is not about biology.
Oxford researchers are advised that the University’s Research Committee has approved a revised policy for allocating funds from the RCUK Open Access block grant.
Emojis, smartphone technologies and revamped guidelines would boost transparency at scientific meetings, say Shai D. Silberberg and colleagues.
A recent book took aim at accelerating administrative demands and the internalized expectation of measurable productivity that have eroded the quality of academic life and work. Is there a corollary for scholarly publishing?
Guidelines for active and efficient data sharing between those generating data and those analyzing it.
Established publishers have a strong motivation to hype claims of predation as damaging to the scholarly and scientific endeavour.
A big waste of money or the engine of marketplace innovation? That's how some people see basic scientific research. Now a new study shows how basic research and inventions are connected.
New 2017 Top 500 world university rankings conducted by CWCU of Shanghai Jiao Tong University (Academic Ranking of World Universities).
Ismail Serageldin, founding director of the Library of Alexandria, has appealed a 3.5-year prison term
The profit motive is fundamentally misaligned with core values of academic life, potentially corroding ideals like unfettered inquiry, knowledge-sharing, and cooperative progress.
Not content with impersonating IRS agents, phone scammers now are pretending to work for the NIH, telling victims that they’ve won a grant but must pay a fee in order to get the money.
