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Star Neuroscientist Tom Insel Leaves the Google-Spawned Verily for … a Startup?

Star Neuroscientist Tom Insel Leaves the Google-Spawned Verily for … a Startup?

Add another high-profile departure to the list of people leaving Verily, the Google-spawned health science company: Thomas Insel, a neuroscientist and former head of the National Institutes of Mental Health who was leading Verily’s mental health initiatives.

NIH to Cap Grants for Well-Funded Investigators

NIH to Cap Grants for Well-Funded Investigators

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced plans last week to impose a new grant scoring system that would cap how much support an investigator can receive from the agency.

Sci-Hub Study Suggests Publishers’ Embargoes ‘Not Viable’

Sci-Hub Study Suggests Publishers’ Embargoes ‘Not Viable’

Analysis of scholarly publishing’s ‘Napster’ shows that academics are not prepared to wait to access research. 35 per cent of articles downloaded from Sci-Hub were less than two years old when they were accessed.

Science Publishers Try New Tack to Combat Unauthorized Paper Sharing

Science Publishers Try New Tack to Combat Unauthorized Paper Sharing

Rise in copyright breaches prompts industry to discuss ways to allow ‘fair sharing’ of articles.

Biotech Execs, Academic Leaders Make Case for NIH Funding at White House Meeting

Biotech Execs, Academic Leaders Make Case for NIH Funding at White House Meeting

New York City investor organized discussion to explain biomedical “ecosystem” to Trump officials

Scientists Want You to Give Them Money to Study Psychedelics

Scientists Want You to Give Them Money to Study Psychedelics

A $2 million crowdfunding campaign will finance an ambitious series of studies—designed under the watchful eye of the FDA—into psychedelics as treatment.

10 Breakthroughs to Shape Europe for the Next 60 Years

10 Breakthroughs to Shape Europe for the Next 60 Years

At the halfway point of the EU’s biggest research and innovation funding programme, Horizon 2020, we explore a selection of EU-funded projects whose breakthroughs could help to shape Europe during the next 60 years.

China Publishes More Science Research with Fabricated Peer-Review than Everyone Else Put Together

China Publishes More Science Research with Fabricated Peer-Review than Everyone Else Put Together

It's hard to believe how "far ahead" China is on this front until you see it with your own eyes.

Facebook Rejects Female Engineers’ Code More Often

Facebook Rejects Female Engineers’ Code More Often

Female engineers who work at Facebook may face gender bias that prevents their code from being accepted at the same rate as male counterparts, according to internal company studies disclosed today.

LSU Sues Elsevier for Breach of Contract

LSU Sues Elsevier for Breach of Contract

Louisiana State University (LSU) filed a lawsuit on February 27, 2017, against international science publisher Elsevier B.V. for breach of contract resulting from the publisher’s exclusion of the LSU School of Veterinary Medicine from accessing content licensed by the LSU Libraries.

NIH to Get a $2 Billion Funding Boost as Congress Rebuffs Trump’s Call for Cuts

NIH to Get a $2 Billion Funding Boost as Congress Rebuffs Trump’s Call for Cuts

The NIH will get a $2 billion funding hike under a bipartisan spending agreement reached late Sunday, as Congress rebuffed Trump's call for cuts.

In Europe’s Election Season, Tech Vies to Fight Fake News

In Europe’s Election Season, Tech Vies to Fight Fake News

In the battle against fake news, a Greek computer scientist living in a northern English town is on the front lines. Armed with a decade of machine learning expertise, he is part of a British start-up that will soon release an automated fact-checking tool ahead of the country’s election in early June.