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The active participation of the people is one of the central components of a functioning democracy. Research performed a real-world randomized experiment in the United States to understand the causal effect of news stories on increasing public discussion of a specific topic.
Leading Swedish research funder joins nonprofit coalition committing about £2.72 mio. to eLife for a 4-year period beginning in 2018.
Scientists fear a crackdown on embryo research if President Trump pays attention to scientific advances.
Scholars are planning an alternative site on which to network and share work.
Psychology initiative aims to engage dozens of laboratories around the world in large-scale studies, since the “tentative, preliminary results” produced by small studies conducted in relatively isolated laboratories “just aren’t getting the job done."
ECNP’s Preclinical Data Forum has announced the world’s first prize of 10,000 EUR for publishing ‘negative’ scientific results.
Patrick Vallance to take over from interim government adviser Chris Whitty from March next year.
Researchers across Europe think the design of Framework 9 is suffering from a lack of British expertise because of Brexit, according to Venki Ramakrishnan.
In our institutions of higher education and our research labs, scholars first produce, then buy back, their own content. With the costs rising and access restricted, something's got to give.
Google, Facebook and Microsoft are protesting a looming injunction that would require search engines, ISPs and hosting companies to stop linking to or offering services to several "pirate" sites.
Republican-controlled Congress ordered destruction of vital sea-ice probe.
NIH Data Commons Pilot Phase to seek best practices for developing and managing a data commons.
The American Chemical Society was granted an unprecedented injunction which requires search engines and ISPs to block Sci-Hub.
Huge genetic databases are changing how scientists study disease.
The Financial Times disclosed that Springer Nature has blocked access in China to at least 1,000 articles from the websites of two of its journals in response to Beijing’s censorship demands.
A challenge investigating reproducibility of empirical results submitted to the 2018 International Conference on Learning Representations.
The planned overhaul would place new tax burdens on colleges and students, and some critics argue that it could undermine charitable giving to the institutions.
Reporters and editors at the local news sites joined a union last week. On Thursday, their billionaire owner closed the sites.
W. M. Keck Observatory chief scientist to lead investments in astronomy, chemistry, physics, materials science and mathematics research.
Rand Paul wants to add two people to every federal peer-review panel evaluating research proposals, charged with looking for value to taxpayers. Science advocates say idea would politicize federal funding of research.
High price of journals 'placing strain on acceptance' of division of labour between researchers and publishers, says professor.
Public Money, Public Code is a campaign of the Free Software Foundation Europe that seeks to transform that ideal into European law.
Critics say selection process for high-stakes funding programme is flawed.
Academic publisher Springer Nature says it has blocked access to articles within China to comply with demands from the Chinese government.
The Marcel Benoist Prize – the “Swiss Nobel Prize” for science – is to get a new look ahead of its centenary.
