The number of female students considering university courses in STEM subjects has seen a bigger increase over the last seven years than for male students, according to new research.
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How far should we rely on science to make political decisions? What makes a good science advisor -- or a good science advice system? What do we do when the evidence is incomplete or controversial? What happens when science advice goes wrong and how can we fix it?
The Science for Policy podcast, produced by SAPEA, explores these questions and many more in conversation with the politicians, policymakers, academics and science communicators who make science advice happen around the world.
The virus doesn’t follow the news and doesn’t care about Twitter. This article proposes that reporting should distinguish between at least three levels of information reliability.
This article presents the first behavioural science-based comprehensive diagnosis of key predictors of policy engagement using the COM-B model, which explains behaviour based on capability, opportunity, and motivation.
It's not easy to demonstrate research impact, says Katherine Andrews - even when there's a clear clinical need, as in malaria drug development.
New discoveries about the human mind show the limitations of reason.
The Expert group on plastic pollution convened by the International Science Council outlines science-based recommendations to inform the final stages of plastics treaty negotiations and a robust and effective instrument.
Open-access data from repositories around the world have enabled a clinical researcher working in Jordan to make a bigger contribution to science.
At ScienceOpen, there’s nothing more we like than good news for open science! That’s why we’re happy this week to see ORCID announcing a new partnership with the DFG, the German R…
More than two thousand researchers have signed a petition to boycott a new Nature journal over the fact it will be available only by subscription.
An interview with Professor Sydney Brenner, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2002.
Laura Niedernhofer is counting her pennies. The mid-career molecular biologist moved last year to the Scripps Research Institute's campus in Jupiter, Florida - a risky decision that saw her building a new laboratory group at a time when the US government was cutting its support for science.
Economic woes wrought by globalization are only part of the cause.
Public regard for scientists is as strong as ever, but you wouldn't know it. Public trust in scientists has risen over the past three decades in the United Kingdom, even in the post-Brexit era.
Your new manager likely doesn't have a PhD, and she's higher on the food chain because experience is more valued than a doctorate. Tips on becoming a more pragmatic professional when transitioning to a career outside of academia.
Citizen science is an innovative concept to involve the general public in scientific processes.
The vast majority of the discourse among the punditry and policymakers is about ensuring we have the right response. Shouldn't we instead be asking a more fundamental question: How did this happen in the first place?
Researchers who receive federal help consistently fail to report their results to the public. The government should hold them accountable.
Scientists and science communicators are engaged in a constant battle with ignorance. But that’s an approach doomed to failure, says Richard P Grant.
The necessity of developing a public infrastructure for open access, its benefits and the obstacles to reaching this goal.
We propose to use the R-factor, a metric that indicates whether a report or its conclusions have been verified.
There's too much secrecy behind ARIA, the United Kingdom's ambitious planned agency for high-risk, high-reward research funding.
