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The 'Loss of Confidence Project' Offers Scientists a Place to Confess

The 'Loss of Confidence Project' Offers Scientists a Place to Confess

What are researchers to do when they lose confidence in their previously published work? A new project has an answer. Will it help the replication crisis?

Clarivate Analytics Releases Citation Distribution Data Alongside Journal Impact Factors

Clarivate Analytics Releases Citation Distribution Data Alongside Journal Impact Factors

New interface shifts from journal metrics to journal intelligence, offering richer data and greater transparency for comprehensive assessment.

Peer Review: eLife Trials a New Approach

Peer Review: eLife Trials a New Approach

eLife authors are being invited to take part in a trial in which they decide how to respond to the issues raised during peer review.

The Center for Open Science and AfricArXiv Launch Branded Preprint Service

The Center for Open Science and AfricArXiv Launch Branded Preprint Service

AfricArXiv (African Science Archive) is a new and free open access repository on Science in Africa for African scientists to share their research outputs in all scientific fields.

A Leading Climate Agency May Lose Its Climate Focus

A Leading Climate Agency May Lose Its Climate Focus

The Trump Administration appears to be removing references to climate from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s mission statement.

Introducing the Free Journal Network: a Community-Controlled Open Access Publishing

Introducing the Free Journal Network: a Community-Controlled Open Access Publishing

The Free Journal Network was established earlier this year in order to nurture and promote journals that are free to both authors and readers and run according to the Fair Open Access Principles.

Knighthood in Hand, Astrophysicist Prepares to Lead U.S. Fusion Lab

Knighthood in Hand, Astrophysicist Prepares to Lead U.S. Fusion Lab

Steven Cowley takes over Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory on 1 July.

OpenUP Hub - OpenUP Blog Competition for Early Career Researchers and Students

OpenUP Hub - OpenUP Blog Competition for Early Career Researchers and Students

Early career researcher or student? Tell us your ideas for the future of review, dissemination or assessment in research and win a scholarship to attend the OpenUP Final Conference in Brussels, September 5th and 6th 2018, and present your ideas!

Wide Racial Gaps Persist in College Degree Attainment

Wide Racial Gaps Persist in College Degree Attainment

Compared to White adults in the United States, Black adults are two-thirds as likely to hold a college degree and Latino adults are only half as likely – with both groups attaining degrees at a lower rate in 2016 than White adults did back in 1990, according to a new report by The Education Trust.

European Union, Worried About Rising Tensions, Plans to Boost Military Research

European Union, Worried About Rising Tensions, Plans to Boost Military Research

After decades of keeping a low profile in the military arena, the European Union is flexing its muscles.  Proposed European Defence Fund would spend EUR13 billion on R&D.

The Collapse of a $40 Million Nutrition Science Crusade

The Collapse of a $40 Million Nutrition Science Crusade

Taubes founded NuSI to support objective science; now, it's his own objectivity he has to defend.

U.S. Legislators Back Larger Facilities Budget for NSF

U.S. Legislators Back Larger Facilities Budget for NSF

Spending bills would boost construction account without cutting research grants, marking the second year that lawmakers have rejected President Donald Trump’s plans for the agency, which called for deep cuts in 2018 and flat funding in 2019.

 

Microsoft’s Purchase of GitHub Leaves Some Scientists Uneasy

Microsoft’s Purchase of GitHub Leaves Some Scientists Uneasy

They fear the online platform used for collaborating on research data and software will become less open, but other researchers say the buyout could make GitHub more useful.

Controversial NIH Study of "Moderate Drinking" Will Be Terminated After Scathing Report

Controversial NIH Study of "Moderate Drinking" Will Be Terminated After Scathing Report

The drinking study had raised concerns because NIH officials had solicited funding for the $100 million project from liquor companies, with the money funneled through the private NIH Foundation.

The World’s Fastest Supercomputer Is Back in America

The World’s Fastest Supercomputer Is Back in America

The US Department of Energy and IBM unveiled Summit, America’s latest supercomputer, which is expected to bring the title of the world’s most powerful computer back to America from China.

Sexual Harassment Isn’t Just About Sex: Groundbreaking Report Details Persistent Hostility Female Scientists Face

Sexual Harassment Isn’t Just About Sex: Groundbreaking Report Details Persistent Hostility Female Scientists Face

National Academies urge cultural change to curb sexist treatment of women

Sexual Harassment Is Rife in the Sciences, Finds Landmark US Study

Sexual Harassment Is Rife in the Sciences, Finds Landmark US Study

Existing policies to address the issue are ineffective, concludes a long-awaited report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.

Outstanding Inventors from France, Germany, Ireland, Netherlands, Switzerland and the US Honoured with European Inventor Award 2018

Outstanding Inventors from France, Germany, Ireland, Netherlands, Switzerland and the US Honoured with European Inventor Award 2018

The EPO announced the winners of the European Inventor Award 2018 at a ceremony today in Paris, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, attended by some 600 guests from the areas of politics, business, intellectual property, science and academia.

Trump's NASA Chief Changed His Mind on Climate Change. He Is a Scientific Hero.

Trump's NASA Chief Changed His Mind on Climate Change. He Is a Scientific Hero.

When asked why he changed his mind, Bridenstine told The Washington Post, "I heard a lot of experts, and I read a lot. I came to the conclusion myself that carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas, that we've put a lot of it into the atmosphere, and therefore we have contributed to the global warming that we've seen."

An Astronaut Will Be Spain’s New Science Minister

An Astronaut Will Be Spain’s New Science Minister

Pedro Duque, who has been on two space missions, is the best-known face in a Cabinet lineup with more women than men.