Mobilising value from science and technology needs help from thinkers, designers, makers, policymakers, and enablers - and this expertise often sits in the humanities, arts and social sciences domain.
Content piracy may be illegal, but price gouging is at least as despicable.
In an era of online discussion, debate must remain nuanced and courteous.
STEM culture must rein in the pressure to separate professional and personal identities.
An intellectual free-for-all doesn’t lead to the common ground on which research can build.
New tools for building interactive figures and software make scientific data more accessible, and reproducible.
Jo Johnson is smart and well-connected, but will not attend highest-level policy meetings.
The zoo of bacteria and viruses within each lab animal may be confounding experiments.
Many famous scientists have something in common—they didn’t work long hours.
100 top ranked specialties in the sciences and social sciences
Is UK science better off in or out of the EU? The arguments are complex and only partially evidence-based. And that’s not surprising.
The academic torrents network is built for researchers, by researchers. Its distributed peer-to-peer library system automatically replicates your datasets on many servers, so you don't have to worry about managing your own servers or file availability. Everyone who has data becomes a mirror for those data so the system is fault-tolerant.
The United States and South Korea have the highest tendencies for novel science. China has become a leader in favoring newer ideas when working with basic science ideas and research tools, but is still slow to adopt new clinical ideas. Many locations remain far behind the leaders in terms of their tendency to work with novel ideas.
Evaluative strategies that increase the mean quality of published science may also increase the risk of rejecting unconventional or outstanding work.
We paid for the research with taxes, and Internet sharing is easy. What's the hold-up?
Data-centric science is emerging in concert with calls for increased openness in research.
Elite scientists generally agree on what character traits make for excellent science.
We call for bringing sanity back into scientific judgment exercises. Despite all number crunching, many judgments - be it about scientific output, scientists, or research institutions - will neither be unambiguous, uncontroversial, or testable by external standards nor can they be otherwise validated or objectified.
Women are still underrepresented in terms of authorships, including first and/or last authorships (whichever is more prestigious), coauthorships, and in the granting of scientific prizes.
Posting scientific papers online, free to the public, seems like a great idea. But it's more complicated than it sounds.
New report describes steps to double progress in 5 years
The vision for what is hoped to be the largest science advocacy event in history.
Many biases affect scientific research, causing a waste of resources, posing a threat to human health, and hampering scientific progress. These problems are hypothesized to be worsened by lack of consensus on theories and methods, by selective publication processes, and by career systems too heavily oriented toward productivity, such as those adopted in the US.
Scientists around the globe nowadays regularly take to the internet to scrutinize research after it’s been published — including to run their own analyses of the data and spot mistakes or fraud.
Featuring Professor Eric Lander, the human genome pioneer and science advisor to the US President.
